Grandchildren
We'd given up hoping for grandchildren , but the past four years has produced Erin , aged 4 and Sam aged 2. We spend as much time as possible with them. They've been around to our house this afternoon. Picnic, walk, tantrum, fed the ducks, watered the garden, beat me up. An absolute blessing, I feel like a millionaire. Strange thing is I don't remember enjoying my own kids as much? Just thought I'd share.
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That's a lovely post Dennis. We have 6, 16 -busy taking his exams at present, girls of 14,14 and 13. Another boy 12. Then our little extra bonus, a 4 year old. Make the most of them being little as they really do grow fast. Only today I was thinking what lovely young women the girls are growing into. Great fun and so much love.
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The good thing about grandchildren is that you can give them back when they become too wearying.
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The glory of grand parenthood Dennis is that we can enjoy it with more time, money & maturity to actually enjoy it as opposed to struggle to do the best we could when we were new parents. It is a joy to open the eyes of ones so young to the infinite joys of the natural World around us. To watch a 3yr old with a Harvestman spider(almost as big as Her hand) walk across Her hand & Her giggling with joy as opposed to killing it due no one ever opening their eyes to the beauty of other living things is a gift👍🏻. We can & do make a difference, hopefully a positive one in the main.
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By the time She finds out re their true classification I reckon She’ll forgive me ET👍🏻
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We never want to give them back CY, life's too short, I agree wholeheartedly with Rocky.
Being with grand children allows me to do silly things like sliding down slides, using the water chutes at water parks and swimming complexes, playing hide and seek with our dog in the country fields, teaching them all about life, pointing out interesting things to them, going on holiday with them ........and the list goes on.
I'm taking my eldest grandson of sixteen away for a weeks R&R as a reward for his two weeks of solid exams, surprisingly he is looking forward to it as much as me, just the two of us, discovering the delights of Cornwall......Can't wait
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Love chatting to our 2 on skype and cherish our visits, they live in New Zealand. Folks can moan about technology, and I do 😂 but without it we'd miss out so much on them. We've played hide and seek, read the same books with them, toured the house and garden checking out the pond dwellers and eldest, just 4, ridden her 2 wheel bicycle without stabiliers for us as soon as she'd mastered the skill. Didn't have to run along holding them 😂😂😂. I'm not jealous but I do envy those of you that live physically close to yours 😢.
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We have 8 grandchildren - 4 of each - very well planned by our 3 children
. The eldest is 23 and just finishing her PGCE and finding it all a bit stressful but I am sure will come good in the end. The youngest will be 8 in a couple of weeks. Two of them live in N. Ireland but the rest are fairly close to hand. We are very luckily. They have all enjoyed coming away with us in the caravan at one point or another. 1 -
We are blessed with one granddaughter, Ellie - four weeks old! She was born in Germany as my son is in the Army there. We visited the week she was born, was instantly smitten, not having any girls previously and I was gutted to come home. We have Facetimed but it's difficult as DIL isn't the most conversant person. Hoping to have lots of fun with her as she grows, I just hope that she will bond with us properly when she sees us again (possibly in September) when they come for a visit.
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Just one grand daughter, 2 year old. She is just getting her own personality. Obviously IMHO she's the most beautiful grand daughter in the world. We look after her every Wed while her (split up) parents both work ... we both look forward to it every week.
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