A VISIT TO GRANDPA

The little girl popped her head out of the window. It was years, that she had felt the cool breeze brush against her cheek. It was exciting! The poppy flowers waved back to her, the garden bloomed with her sight. She couldn't be happier. Life was a fragrance - she enjoyed every bit of her newly found freedom. Ah! How she wished she could fly as high as the bird, a never-ending flight that took her to the land of fairies. The very thought excited her- she visualized the chocolate house, which had often come in her dreams. It would be real fun!
She started with that sudden cry- mamma was almost leaning on her and tears rolled down her pale cheeks. Her dream interrupted she was puzzled for a second. Soon she was customized to the room that she now had been staying for a year or so. Nancy-her nurse had told her one night that she would be free again, ready to play and run through those stretches of green meadow. She had not stepped on those soft grasses for months. She could not wait any longer! Mamma had explained to her that she would soon be having a new grandpa and she should always listen to him. She was glad, yet hesitant to live alone with her new grandpa. Mamma promised that she and daddy would soon be joining her and they would all stay together happily.
It was going to be a real holiday, yet mamma and daddy looked sad. She never seemed to understand them. Maybe the very thought of parting with her for a few days was making them sad. Of course she never had stayed away from her parent's -but that she was a big girl now, she could manage. She had never been so happy-there was a long holiday before her. A visit to grandpa! And she had already started packing her bags…