My Granddaughter, Tristen

Well, this is one thing I never thought would happen in my Nine Lives Plus One. I am sitting beside Tristen, my amazing 18-year old granddaughter, and while I am trying to find my way around a new Mac computer, she is working on her Mac that we bought her three years ago.  She is doing her best to show me how to sort and store my 5,000 pictures on this amazing machine.  It's the age-old solution, if you can't figure out your telephone, your DVR, your  digital camera, and your new computer, thank goodness you have a grandchild to ask.   The sweet person sitting beside me tonight is that Plus One, and she truly is a plus.  Her name is Tristen, and she is amazing.  She is a Freshman in Community College but is transferring to a state university in the fall.  She is majoring in psychology and plans to go pre-med.  Thank goodness that we are going to have a doctor in our family.  Couldn't happen sooner for me for I am certainly not getting any younger.

Tristen has been a blessing to me from the day she was born.  She loves spending time with her Nana.  In fact, we just got back from a movie, The Woman in Black, with Daniel Radcliffe.  We loved him in the Harry Potter series, which of course we saw every one together.  Naturally, we had to see this movie and it was very good.

And of course, we've seen every Twilight series together--we've seen them all at least three times and then many times more when we bought the DVDs.

I've taken her to every Broadway play that has come to town since she was eight years old.  She says that the Lion King was probably her favorite, not to mention Hairspray, Beauty and the Beast,  Nine to Five, The Pajama Game--so many more too numerous to mention.

We love to go to movies, plays, eating at PeiWei, eating spaghetti, and just hanging out and watching Raymond every night.

I love you, Tristen Kelsey.  Thank you for spending time with me and actually loving to be with your Nana.  I've loved every minute of it and look forward to many more years together.