Oh the places they’ll go. There’s fun to be done!

It’s not my best work, but my giant Cat in the Hat Pumpkin tickled me anyway.

Because, even as I wrestled felt pieces into passable eyeballs and whiskers, my oldest son Charlie was also channeling Dr.Seuss in his home, nearly 1000 miles away.

Oh the places they’ll go! And the homes they’ll make! And the families they’ll raise!

And, still, there’s fun to be done!

A few weeks ago, Charlie started writing a blog chronicling his adventures raising a spunky daughter in New Jersey.

He publishes posts on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They’ve been hot off the presses nice and early, so I get to enjoy them with my morning tea.

Yesterday morning, I got to read all about how they made Green Eggs and Ham together. It’s a great post full of clever New Jersey references.

You can read it here: https://www.iblanknj.com/post/i-seuss-nj-feasting-on-green-eggs-taylor-ham

Charlie and his wife Tara are both avid readers and they’re raising their daughter to appreciate books too.

The three of them have a lot of fun together and we enjoy hearing about their escapades. As any grandma will tell you, it also seems like just yesterday that I was making green eggs and ham with Charlie and we were reading bedtime stories together.

My goodness how time has flewn? How did it get so late so soon?

Maybe coincidence landed the Cat in the Hat on my front porch at the same time Charlie posted his Dr.Seuss piece. But, I’d like to think it was something more than that.

I’d like to think the little boy I read to, and the man he became, are still connected to their mother through miles and years, and I want to thank Dr. Seuss for all the words and the ways to prove it.

I’ll be smiling all week as I remember Charlie, his brother and sisters, and all the little kids that used to run around our front porch where the giant Cat in the Hat pumpkin now sits.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

And so is love.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me ideas for costuming our enormous pumpkin. I’m definitely considering all of them and I’m still soliciting ideas so, if you have another good one, please send it my way.