Ode to grandfathers

{conversation last night}

Me: Going to Target. Need anything?
Lee (in the middle of a game of football on the XBox live complete with dorky headset & yelling at whoever he is playing against): I thought you said you went to Target at lunch.

Me: I did. But we need toilet paper.

Lee: So you are going all the way to Target for toilet paper?

Me: Yep. See you after the game.

And on the way to Target {which is "all the way" about 10 minutes away from the house but there are 2 grocery stores and a Dollar General less than 5 minutes away}, I had an epiphany.

I love Target the way my grandfather loved grocery stores.

My Big Daddy was always going to the grocery store.

He would go multiple times during the day, most of the time for just 1-2 items.

I never really understood it...until now.

There is just something about Target that makes it worth the "long" trip for a single item.

{goodness knows I never leave with just 1 item however}

I would must rather spend my time & money in a clean, spacious, organized Target than Wal-Mart {or that Dollar General 5 minutes away) anyday.

And I am sure my Big Daddy felt the same way about his grocery stores.

You know what Big Daddy's favorite purchase was at the grocery store?

Toilet paper

He always kept the house well stocked with the fluffiest kind.

He would not have thought it weird that I made a trip all the way to Target for some Cottonelle.

OK so maybe all this was not an "epiphany" but it made me think of my Big Daddy and miss him a little bit.

Since I am reminiscing, here is a layout I did a couple of years ago about him.

Supplies: Patterned paper, die cuts (Cosmo Cricket), Chipboard (Heidi Swapp), Ink (Ranger), Brads, bookplate (Junkitz)

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And speaking of grandfathers, my layout in the May/June issue of Memory Makers is about my grandfather on my dad's side of the family.

He is Daddy Bill.

{I have always thought my grandfathers had cool names}

Daddy Bill is responsible for all the tennis-playing that goes on on the Misner side of the family.

And that is David in the pictures with him.

David is the same brother from the previous post who is now back in the South.

Supplies: Patterned paper (Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye), Chipboard stars (Heidi Swapp), Chipboard alphas (Basic Grey), Brads (KI Memories)

Ah, memories!

Happy Friday!
{I just thought of something else I need from Target: mascara!}
gretchen