The Nerdy Grandma

For the first time in the history of ever, Alexis was able to go to work with me for Take Your Child to Work Day. To say that she has asked 1353243209 times every past year would be to greatly minimize her level of desperation to join me for the day. It was all a matter of me needing to work somewhere where people act like grown-ups and there would be positive things or her to learn. Which, hooray! That is a thing now!

She spent the morning attending organized activities with all of the other kids, but then had the afternoon to spend with me. Watching me. Lurking around every corner with me. She did exactly that for a two-hour meeting, but then her nerdiness got the better of her and she found herself in a test lab with engineers.

It's been several hours since she first looked through a microscope and did some other cool things. She is still talking about it. Over and over. What I'm saying is she won't shut up.

It's kind of fantastic.

Even more fantastic is what happened after I rescued the engineers from the hurricane that is Alexis. I shoved her in a conference room with a couple of other kids because I'm super nice and stuff. Seriously. I'm nice enough to let her do something that isn't watch me try to unbury myself from a mountain of emails and research.

In theory, it should worry me to put a couple of 3rd and 4th graders in a small room and close the door. In reality, we're talking about Grandma Alexis and kids whose company she enjoyed. The group of girls, the ones who had access to a laptop and the internet, spent their time doing math.

Seriously.

Long division. They practiced long division. FOR AN HOUR.

The nerd is strong with that kid.

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[Mary]

Nerds Rock. Honestly, I wish I had been more of a nerd when I was a kid. Truth is my youngest brother got it all.