Yesterday we went to my grandma’s birthday brunch in Montebello. After the brunch we headed back to my grandma’s house in East Los Angeles. We spent the whole day there with her and my dad and my nina, tias, and tios. It was a wonderful day and was long overdue because I am a shitty granddaughter and haven’t visited in a while.
My poor nina was probably so worn out from N who made her be her new best friend, dragging her around, making her lie on the ground so she could make a chalk outline of her body, talking her ear off, and making her take her on walks. Poor nina, I am really very sorry! My daughter could be very clingy and even her dear old ma gets tired of it and when my nina walked up to me and put her arm around me I thought it was N [again] and I slapped it away! Oy. Sorry nina. But nina was a real trooper and took N for a walk and bought her some of her favorite Mexican candy and introduced her to the chicharone, which N couldn’t say let alone would she eat what she dubbed the chi-cho-no-neese.
I had the teenager and his GF in tow as well. Those two are really like an old married couple. Wherever we are the two of them fall asleep in front of the T.V. When they woke from their afternoon nap they decided they wanted to go for a walk. A walk around East L.A.! I wouldn’t go for that walk so you can understand my hesitation to let probably the only two black kids in the neighborhood go for a walk in lil Mexico. The teenager said we’re not going far, just by the church, we’ll be fine... and I gave in. I called him about four times and sent seven text messages in what was probably less than 45 minutes that they were gone.
When they came back they showed me pictures from their camera that they took on their adventure. They actually documented the little field trip of this foreign land. Great - N thinks she’s a foreigner and the teenager thinks East L.A. is foreign land. I sheltered these kids far to damn much! I’m really not even sure they know they are Black and Mexican :-/.
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| I had to Lysol him after I saw this damn picture. |
This is my first time reading your blog, and I love it. I must say though, that the last picture on the post made me want to inspect for bedbugs. Gross.
ReplyDeletewell awe shucks thank you! i appreciate it. LOL he was inspected and sprayed down with Lysol. thanks for stopping by :).
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