"Barack Obama's President!"

Bonnie, Zanaya and Vanessa

An interesting title for a blog, don't you think?? Well, here's the story . . . I was blessed to have my beautiful married daughter here with me this weekend! Bonnie and I had some great one-on-one time together and some time with special friends that we don't get to see often enough. We had a mother-daughter Mexican dinner with margaritas Friday night, then went hot tubbing with Becky and Vanessa. Today Bonnie and I went to church together and then out to brunch with Blair & Gretchen and "Nama." Yesterday we went to the movie, "The Secret Life of Bees" and then out to Hills' for dinner.

Here's where the blog inspiration started - the Hills were entertaining the cutest little four year old that you've ever seen. Her name is Zanaya and she is African-American with quite the charming personality. Before we got there, Vanessa asked Zanaya if she wanted to see a picture of who was coming to their house. She showed her a picture on the refrigerator of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Drake from their wedding, looking at each other and holding up a thank you sign. Vanessa pointed out Bonnie, but when Zanaya looked at Aaron, she said, with lots of enthusiasm, "Barack Obama's President!" She did the same thing when we got there and we pointed to that picture of Aaron. "Barack Obama's President!" she exclaimed. Guess it must have been the lighting??? Aaron, you look so distinguished.

Zanaya touched our hearts with her smile, her curiosity, and her precious 4-year old faith as she sang for us some gospel songs that she learned at her grandma's church. I'm convinced that's why God made grandmas.