Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 31, 2015

It’s not easy being separated from your grandparents.

Aww, poor Alix!

How did she get from the car shopping for clothes to Aunt June’s so fast??

Shopping was probably its usual disaster.

Well, I do know that the crowd over there do yak a lot.

Red alert! Red alert!

They should take Alix with them.

Uh oh!

Um — has anybody bothered to tell Alix that she can’t force her preferences on everybody else? Like shopping for school? Like going back to school? Like what movies they watch? Like what to wear for her mother’s wedding? Like the comings and goings of her grandmother?

I don’t remember feeling so entitled and empowered at 8. Maybe she should get friends or something… we never see her playing with anybody but Max…

Globe-trotting Gramma has itchy feet again.

Aww my poor baby! :(

So, are they going to be building Yurts for Impoverished Mongolians?.

Or, are they also Astronomy Enthusiasts? .(That’s one of Mongolia’s “Booming” tourist industries. The Nearest Light Polution is over 1,000 Miles away when you get to Inner Mongolia.)

Poor Alix buddy grandma is leaving too soon.