As Deep as the Ocean...

[Gen]

Re: As Deep as the Ocean...

[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img] @ him walking with the stroller

[Bandana]

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[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bannana_purple.gif[/img] NAP TIME!!! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bannana_purple.gif[/img]

I get him cleaned up, and in some dry clothes, and he says "we are tired momma" [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]

Yes baby come lay down and take a nap... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-sleeping.gif[/img]

I cover him up, and slip out the bedroom...

[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img] Freedom [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70371-jump.gif[/img]


but I can't go anywhere... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70402-thinking.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img]


I walk out onto my veranda, and look at the beach.
The view is lovely, and I take another minute to be thankful for the blessing I have been given to know this place...
I love the way the trees look against the sky...





I put a cd in my DVD player, and head to the shower. I bathe, and then wrap myself in a sarong, and back to the veranda I go.

It looks like clouds are rolling in for the afternoon showers, and I smile. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img] I love the rain in Jamaica [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blushing2.gif[/img]



I sit and write in my journal and listen to the sounds from the beach. I feel like I am small as a mouse, no one knows I am here, and I am just waiting, watching, listening... I am safe here, and I feel more at peace than I have in a ver long time. I think about somebody I once knew down the beach a ways, and I wonder what he is doing right now....


I wait for Imanni to wake up, and when he does I tell him "We are going to the store. We are going in a car, and you need to stay by my side.

You hear? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70456-eyebrows.gif[/img]

You need to hold my hand and be good, ok??"

"Okay Momma" he says...

[Ooman]

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But when he reaches the beach I hear a big belly laugh, and I see Imanni look in that direction and stop in his tracks.

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What did he see????????. What a handsome young man you have there..

BLESSINGS AND GUIDANCE

[Bandana]

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We head for the door and I stop right on the threshold and kneel down.
"Listen baby, I love you, and I just want you to be safe ok?"
"ok."
"So stay with me and hold my hand, ok?"
"ok"

I lock the door, and we step out into Jamaica again...


We are coming down the walkway and Imanni says with glee "We're going to Jamaica" [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]
Just then, a man walks past a crosswalk... he BOAL and says "You in Jamaica likkle man" [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

Imanni blushes, and we keep walking... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

The sky is still overcast, but no rain will fall.

I see the lady from the Mini Mart with the pretty eyes, and right behind her is the little boy who played with Imanni the first day...
She is his Mother, yes I see it. Beautiful...

Imanni wants to play, but I say no, we are going to the store. I give him "that look" and he follows me to the gates...


We get to the gate, and the guy says $10 US to the Hi-Lo and back [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif[/img]
Now I look at this man smiling back at me, and I say I know I can walk out that Gate and get a ride for 1/2 that enoh [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70456-eyebrows.gif[/img]

He says how much you want to pay?
I say $500J.
Done.

The driver pulls up in the driveway of the hotel to get us, and I feel safer not having to walk out on to Norman Manley with this runaway pikney. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif[/img] We get in the Van and the AC is blasting away the heat...

I buckle the kid up, and sit back and breath for a minute. It seems the slightest things take such effort here. As I think that I see people working everywhere... gardeners weed-eating mowing, people painting, and the ones cooking in stands along the street. I admire the Jamaican people again, and I feel humbled.

We get to the Hi-Lo and I put the boy in a shopping basket. Ok, this is familiar [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img] he knows how to behave in the store. I walk around and collect the things from my list, Eggs, bread, milk, juice, Red Stripe, Ting. Along with a few impulse buys... Overproof Rum Cream, and Chocolate pudding [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hungry.gif[/img]

I wait by the Cambio to change some Travelers Checks, and we are off...


The driver is waiting, and he takes us up the alley behind our room and carries all our groceries up for us [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/inlove1.gif[/img]
I ended up giving him what equated to $10 US anyway [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70361-embarassed.gif[/img] The service was excelent, and I was greatful! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

Back in the room Imanni can not go another second with out the pudding [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

[R00TS]

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This child has those Bedroom eyes [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/inlove1.gif[/img]

[LINDA]

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I like how him sit like a big boy wid him leg over di odda wan [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

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[Bandana]

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Linda [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70459-hugs.gif[/img]


He acts older and older every day, and I think this trip the speed doubled. Imanni saw and did many things that he's never even dreamed of... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

Yah man, I am gonna have to bolt his bedroom door when he reaches High School [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif[/img]

[jaith]

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a great report bandanna....i have utmost respect for anyone who takes a pickney on a trip....i have problems enuff getting myself from point A to point B in jamaica....can't imagine doing it with a likkle one...

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[ILP]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bandanna</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yah man, I am gonna have to bolt his bedroom door when he reaches High School [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif[/img] </div></div>

di way dese pickney faas, you betta stawt earlier dahn daht. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

[Bandana]

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Oh, one more funny thing before the next installment.


When we were in the Hi-Lo he sees this carton drink. The carton is brown kinda like what chocolate milk comes in, in the states. Well he is adamant that he wants it. I pick the carton up and it is Ginger Beer [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img] I tell the boy that he really does NOT want that, but he won't listen.. I look at the cartoon, and it was like 90J [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img] in the basket it goes...

So after the pudding he's thirsty right [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] he goes to the fridge, and brings me the ginger beer [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]


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I go get a straw, and give the boy the carton...


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]


mmmmm... he says [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hungry.gif[/img]

[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif[/img]

I take a double take, and then he starts SCREAMING [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img]

"My tounge, my tounge" [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cry.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]


I take out a glass of milk a.s.a.p. and hand it to him.
He guzzles it down and sighs. And in his little voice he says: "That was a close one" [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]


My Pikney [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blushing2.gif[/img]

[CeaBee]

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suh u saying that u give the poor chile ginger beer ? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif[/img]


poor likkle imanni [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img]

[Bandana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coolbeans</div><div class="ubbcode-body">suh u saying that u give the poor chile ginger beer ? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif[/img]


poor likkle imanni [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] </div></div>


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[wandaweberg]

Re: As Deep as the Ocean...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bandanna</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oh, one more funny thing before the next installment.


When we were in the Hi-Lo he sees this carton drink. The carton is brown kinda like what chocolate milk comes in, in the states. Well he is adamant that he wants it. I pick the carton up and it is Ginger Beer [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img] I tell the boy that he really does NOT want that, but he won't listen.. I look at the cartoon, and it was like 90J [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img] in the basket it goes...

So after the pudding he's thirsty right [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] he goes to the fridge, and brings me the ginger beer [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]

I go get a straw, and give the boy the carton...


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]


mmmmm... he says [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hungry.gif[/img]

[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif[/img]

I take a double take, and then he starts SCREAMING [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img]

"My tounge, my tounge" [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cry.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek2.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]


I take out a glass of milk a.s.a.p. and hand it to him.
He guzzles it down and sighs. And in his little voice he says: "That was a close one" [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70394-bawlout.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/704555_dwl.gif[/img]


My Pikney [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]


[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blushing2.gif[/img]

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If I were drinking a ginger beer right now I would be spitting it up in LAUGHTER!!
Dis funneee!

[MsExced]

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Oh Bandanna what a fun trip for you and Imanni, the stories are real funny (giving the poor child ginger beer [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img])

[goldilocks]

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A classic lesson in being careful what you wish for [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

same thing with "don't touch the stove, it's hot!" sometime they just gotta experience a thing