This 74 year old grandmother feels she is deserving of a place in heaven!
Friday night I took my grandchildren to the JoJo concert at Wolf Trap and sat on the lawn on one of the hottest days of the year with 7,000 other crazies who paid outrageous amounts of money for tickets to see JoJo and BoBo strut their stuff on stage while her granddaughter sat on her lap jumping up once in awhile to sing every word and dance like JoJo while dressed in her $16 JoJo bow and "who knows how much" sequin outfit as I looked through a rainbow of tulle towards what could have been a stage if only I could have seen it while texting her parents and my friends that I was having a heat stroke in my black jump suit with no bow in my hair. Yes, it was texting because I don't know how to "Twitter." And yes I know that was a very long "run on" sentence because I was a FCPS teacher.
Seriously, I want to thank all the working people at Wolf Trap who must have thought I was handicapped (or crazy) and gave me handicapped parking, a ride to the entrance and waved me through a sea of cars at the not too soon ending of the show with all 6999 yelling "Jo Jo" for her to make an encore. ... What we do for the love of grandchildren!
One conciliation was that I learned, on my own, how to add an APP to my phone, buy tickets on StubHub, and show my phone tickets to get into Wolf Trap, Surviving the heat with sweat (not Southern perspiration) rolling into my eyes and fogging my glasses; watching my gourmet picnic not be eaten because Popeyes ruled; and enduring sarcastic texts from my friends, I know for a fact, I deserve a place in heaven along with all those moms with JoJo bows and dads, yes, dads who endured this experience for someone they loved.
Ann Erickson
Reston
Grandmother of the Year