Being a grandad
We have two great grand daughters and one had a birthday yesterday and the other has her birthday today which is nice and it got me thinking.I,ve just returned from getting two of my grandchildren to school and i have to say that being a grandparent is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.As i,m retired i have the time too see them as often as possible and i cant tell you what this means to me.The pleasure they bring and the love and friendship are priceless and if i dont see them for a few days i miss them terribly.If we have a family get together i try to get them all there because without them its just not the same for me.Our holidays with our children when we first started caravanning are still the best holidays we have ever had nothing has ever come close to matching that magic time.I was asked by someone if i had anymore ambitions in life and i said yes if i can live to be a great,great grandad i will be more than happy 
If you are like me i would love too hear about it.
Enjoy your day
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Aw! That's lovely.
We help with childminding of our son's three boys, doing the daily school run as well as supervising during school holidays and they also come for a meal at least once a week. It's special when a fourteen year old boy will still give nanna a hug. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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We don't live near enough to any of our grandchildren to see them on a daily basis but it's lovely to think of the good relationships we've enjoyed with them as they grow up. Ours have a gt gran-gran too, which has been nice for them.
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Yup, you have another doting G/pa here Mucker. I have 2, I spend a lot of time with & it's a great experience. When my own Children were young I worked long hours & didn't get to play a big part in their lives. With the GK's I can spend quality time as they're
both below School age. Climbing Trees, conkering, exploring in the Countryside. Basically everything I do. The youngest(Girl) is already attempting Tree climbing due to Her Brothers love of it. He even helps prepare the logs & the wood burner for lighting.
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Nail on the head there guys and gals one minute your takeing them too the park and the next your helping them to fix their first car and wondering where the hell the time has gone and where that little person you used to know has gone.Precious,precious moments
and eternal memoriesv9.
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That is correct
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I have one 14yr old step GS, I cannot put into words the joy and pleasure he has given me.Since the day he was born there has been such a closeness , maybe I see in him the child I never had.Be him blood or not the love is still the same ..
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As that the sticker in the car that I saw said-" If I had known how fantastic Grandchildren were I would not have bothered with children"
Agree with all the sentiment but would say it's being a Grandparent that's great! Our eight range from 24 to 3 and we have reached the stage where we are now planing holidays without having to prioritise their birthdays as we could not face missing them
up the age of three.Having such a wide age range means that we have also had very little time in our lives without children around and we feel truly blessed that this is the case.
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I have two. One is now 20 and away at university, the other is 10 and I see him two or three times a week. We go to football matches together, I take him to tennis lessons and sometimes to his karate club. He has inherited my love of choral singing and we
share an interest in model railways. We have always had at least one holiday each year with one or both in the caravan. The older one caravanned with us until he was 17. Every night we were away we took a walk around whichever site we on last thing before
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Our beautiful grand daughter is 10 months old ..... she's the light of our lives. We're having her tomorrow afternoon while her parents work. I know where I went wrong in letting my daughter wrap me around her little finger ....... I won't make the same
mistake again!!!!
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Our beautiful grand daughter is 10 months old ..... she's the light of our lives. We're having her tomorrow afternoon while her parents work. I know where I went wrong in letting my daughter wrap me around her little finger ....... I won't make the same
mistake again!!!! From all of us with a Grand Daughter MM. . . .Yeah right!!!
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Current score is seven! We had three children each of whom produced two children of their own, one of each in all three cases. Thought that was it, but then along came "Woody".
Ages vary from 19 years old for the eldest and 10 months for Woody!
TF
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Well team i can see i,m among kindred spirits with this thread.Your posts are a joy and all have that magic that being a grandparent brings.What comes out in all of them is our realisation of how short a time they are children before they grow and forever
change.My youngest grand child is 3 now and the chances of anymore are very remote.We went for a period of about ten years when there were no babies in the family and it leaves quite a hole in your life.You long for a toddler to be trotting round the house
again but i can see from your posts that you are all makeing the most of this very precious timepeter.
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Being a Grandad is wonderful. Being their friend and confidant as the grandchildren progress through their lives, is an honour.
This year two of my grand children started their university education and are enjoying university life.
My two younger grandchildren are doing well at school and their sporting careers.
I love being a grandad and am so proud of all my grandchildren.
Cheers......K
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I used to be very envious of all those grandmas and grandads out there but last December a miracle brought me a grandson, unfortunately Brexit took the three of them (my son DIL and Him) to the US - I am hoping maybe Trump will bring them back but I am not holding my breath - just looking forward to when they can come back and I can get to enjoy him! At some point I expect I shall brave it and go over to have some fun!
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I used to be very envious of all those grandmas and grandads out there but last December a miracle brought me a grandson, unfortunately Brexit took the three of them (my son DIL and Him) to the US - I am hoping maybe Trump will bring them back but I am not
holding my breath - just looking forward to when they can come back and I can get to enjoy him! At some point I expect I shall brave it and go over to have some fun!I understand where you're coming from Pippah45. We now have two granddaughters, didn't have to wait too long for them to arrive BUT they do live in NZ. Can be very hard but Skype is great and we do all sorts on it including playing hide and seek as well
as with our toy store. Feeding - eldest feeds grandad and gradma obliges this end. Dilemma last time she produced coloured feathers, surprisingly we have none to hand . Asked her to pass them here she said ' don't be silly there's a screen in the way and
you're in engerland'. Amazing that at 2 1/2 years she has concept of the world, moon here sun for grandma grandad, she can point at both countries on a globe. So we take comfort that we are educating her however far away we are.Life is great despite the distance. Hopefully our health and finances will hold out for regular long visits. Have a son with a farmers daughter who's taking over the farm here plus aging mother. So looks like well have offspring in either hemisphere so lots
of thinking and decisions .For all of you who have daily or weekly contact don't take it for granted. The weeks we've had together are magical.
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One of our grand daughters starts her first employment on friday at our local NHS hospital, she has done everything herself to get the job and she is only 17 years old, we are all so proud of her. Another grandson started work three weeks ago so things
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Our two are 10 and 6, our son's children. Unfortunately they live about a 45 minute drive away on the far side of the city from here, so we only get to see them every 2 or 3 weeks.
The kids lead busy lives, as do mum and dad, so we have to fit in with that.
However, our daughter, who got married in April is only a 15 minute drive away, so we are hoping to be much more involved with any children she produces. We have already volunteered to undertake childcare as required, and her husband's parents live even
closer and have also offered help, so we are all just waiting for them to get on with it!She tells us they are saving up first as children are very expensive! I suppose, when you consider that she will have to stop working for a bit, and that they may incur some childcare costs, this is sensible these days.
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....She tells us they are saving up first as children are very expensive! ...
Haven't you told her that you could never save up enough first?
We don' want to discourage her, she will find out soon enough!
As the higher earner, they will face a big drop in income when she has to take some time off, so it is sensible to have a bit in reserve.
I think she is aiming for 1 years salary, so the first grandchild is some way off yet.
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Our daughter Amber had just started university when she met . . . . err? I shall just call him it.
Typical good for nothing layabout. when
Amber got pregnant you can imagine our thoughts, but like the old saying goes no matter what we told her she'd have to find out about him the hard way. when we sorted out a new build apartment for her to rent, it took a week for him to move in. he didnt
contribute a damn thing, he'd wait till she was asleep, take her car and her bank card and steal money from her to fund god knows what.We were at our wits end with worry about
Amber and the baby, and if she'd carry on with Uni.
Anyhoo, three years down the road, she finished Uni with distinctions and is a qualified first year school teacher, we got her and Isabelle out of the apartment and into a lovely little 2 bed house close to us " it" isnt on the scene now although he does
ask to see Belle when he's skint.Amber has never stopped it seeing Belle.
She is a fantastic mother and Belle is priceless we wouldn't be without her now.
She loves to come to ours to see her Nanna and Grangrad. thru all the heartache she is our shining star.
( putting that down in print has made me quite emotional!!
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We have 4 Gkids, both our boys have got one of each. The ages are from 7 -10, girls being the youngest and oldest with the boys both now 8.
Like Brue ours don't live close enough to see them on a regualr basis, 2 are now living in Malta and the other 2 live down south of england. When they were very small I worried that they wouldn't know us, seeing us so infrequent, but that is not the case
nowadays. I love spending time with them but oh its nice to get back to normal once they/we have gone. Our own children grew up with infrequent visits to my parents (we lived abroad) and none to OH parents. I can't imagine what its like to have daily contact
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The good thing about grandchildren is that you can give them back when they become a bit too much to cope with.
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The good thing about grandchildren is that you can give them back when they become a bit too much to cope with.
True, but I can’t say my only Grandchild has ever been too much to cope with.
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Give it time.
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