WITH ALL YOUR FONDNESS PART TWO

MY SON IN LAW, A PULMONOLOGIST IN GULF, NOW, WANTED MY GRAND DAUGHTER TO BE TAKEN BACK THERE AS THE KID WAS GETTING INTO FOUR YEARS OF HER AGE. MY DAUGHTER CAME HOME ALL ALONE FROM GULF TO GRAB HER FROM MY POSESSION.

IT WAS MID 2000 AND I WAS ABOUT TO RETIRE IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS.SHE SPOKE THIS AND THAT AND WON OVER ME THAT THE KID WOULD BEST BELONG TO WHERE HER PARENTS WERE. I WAS ABOUT TO CRY! SMASH MY HEAD AGAINST THE HOSPITAL MORTURY.  I COULD NOT PUT UP WITH THE THINKING OF HER SEVERANCE FROM ME. BY NOW SHE, I THOUGHT, WAS A PART OF ME.

BY NOW I THOUGHT THE KID BELONGED RIGHT HERE. RETIRING FROM A ROLE OF AUDITOR AND TAKING THE FULL CHARGE OF THIS KID WAS VERY MUCH A HEAVEN SEND ONE, I WAS CONVINCED.BY NOW I WAS TOTALLY CONVERSANT WITH HER LIKES AND DISLIKES, TASTES AND DISTASTES.

MY WIFE WAS A SCHOOL ASSISTANT AND TO HER TEACHING COMES FIRST AND FOREMOST. A RESPONSIBILITY CONSCIOUS TEACHER GRAND MOM SHE WAS, HAVING MORE TO TEACH THAN TO BE BY THE SIDE OF THE KID.

IT WAS HERE I GOT STUCK FAST IN A ROLE OF NANNY AND LOVED PLAYING THAT ROLE. A FRIEND. A PLAY MATE. A LIVING DOLL!!!AN OLD CLOWN!!!!

COME EVENING SHE WOULD BE READY FOR THE SCOOTER RIDE, AND SHE WOULD STOP RIGHT AT A FLORIST, HAVE HER FAVOURITE AND THEN OTHER THINGS. THIS KID WAS A VERY POOR EATER. I HAD TO TAKE HER TO SHOW HER BLARING LOCOMOTIVES, THEME PARKS AND SUCH THINGS TO FEED ONE BANANA FRUITE.

MY KID WAS LESS FRIENDLY TO HER GRAND MOM, AND FAVOURED MY FEEDING HER. SHE HAD TO BE TOLD DOZENS OF UNENDING STORIES BEFORE SHE FINISHED HER FEEDING.SHE TREASURED GIFTS AND SHE COLLECTED ALL HER GIFT ITEMS HIDDEN IN A DRESSING TABLE.

MY WIFE WAS A BIT STRICT AND WOULD LIKE THE KID TO SLEEP WITH HER. BUT SOON AFTER SHE SLEPT THIS KID WOULD SNEAK INTO MY BED.

MY GRAND DAUGHTER WAS BY NOW VERY MUCH AFFECTIONATE WITH ME.SHE WAS UNABLE TO BEAR MY ABSENCE EVEN FOR A SMALL WHILE.