This morning while Lennie and I were reading a book of children’s poems that she had selected from her shelves, she took over the reading, running her finger across the page and beginning with the following story, the first of several in the same vein:

Once upon a time,
three princesses,
three mommies,
three daddies,
three Lennies,
three babies in Mommy’s belly,
six grandmas,
seven granddaddies.