New sand and a vision of heaven

May 14 to May 16
Every day we watched the work at the playground where workingmen replaced the sand. The man who operated the Bobcat scooped up and dumped sand, maneuvering around the playground equipment while others, including John McGill raked. It was a huge and exhausting job. On Wednesday, a working woman came out to us with some sand toys so Jack could play in the piles outside the playground (making Jack the first kid to play in the new sand). Jack made a hole and told her it was for a gopher. At last on Thursday, we were inside the Rec Center playing with the little kitchen and riding toys when John McGill entered and told us the playground was open. Jack ran up to Jenny crying, “Jenny, Jenny, John McGill says the playground is open.” As Jack and I hurried around the building, Jack called out “Yea for workingmen”!

One day Jack and I were looking at the photo book of Jack and his family. I asked Jack if he remembers Gigi. “Yes, she has broom and dustpan. I want to go see her tomorrow.” I told Jack we couldn’t do that because Gigi has died and that means we can only see her in pictures. “Where is she”? “Nobody knows, Jack.” A pause and then “Maybe she went to drive a bulldozer. Maybe she is driving a bulldozer.” When we got to the photo of Gigi and Jack, Jack said “That was before she died.”