Archive for the ‘Grandchildren--God's Gift’ Category
I’m Proud of That Boy!
November 25th, 2009
Our youngest grandchild turned 8 years old today, but that’s not what I want to tell you about him.
He’s a very smart little boy and as he told me last night when I asked if he would help my husband install some new gates, “I’m not just a kid. I’m a kid with a mind and I use it for reading, doing math, playing my games, but I’m not good at putting things together. I even have trouble putting legos together.”
I noticed a little later on that he had a sticker on his shirt that he had received in school. It said, I’m thankful for and the children had to write in the things they were thankful for.
Unlike some of his classmates who said they were thankful for the parents, dogs, ice cream etc., my grandson wrote on his that he is thankful for “God, Heaven and Jesus”. Seems he has his eye on the prize and not the little things of the world.
He often talks to me about spiritual things and last week I told him he was almost 8 years old and in ten years he’d be 18 years old and a man. I said I hoped he still came to visit us and help us to go places we might not be able to navigate then. His response was that he thought by the time he was 18 we’d be dead! I told him I hoped not, but it shows the depth of his thoughts.
He’s definitely his grandfather’s boy and worships my husband. The feeling is reciprocated. My husband calls him “my boy” and he has me wrapped around his finger so tightly I find it hard to tell him no to things such as spending an extra night here.
I’m as close to his sister and she to me as my husband and grandson are with each other.
Lest you think we are playing favorites we stay in touch with our son’s children in Texas and give them advice when they ask or just praise them for their accomplishments with a little bribe for getting good grades.
If I had known how wonderful grandchildren are I would have had them first. I know that’s impossible, but the joys of being a grandparent surpass anything I have known other than falling in love, getting married, seeing my own children for the first time, and being proud of their accomplishments.
It seems we have more time, patience and a softer heart with these four children and they will always be my little babies as long as I live.
Happy birthday, Ry-Ry! You said it feels really, really good to be 8. I know whatever you do in life you will never disappoint us.
We love you all, Patrick, Kelsey, Ashley and Ryan.
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Been Away for Awhile (But With Good Reason)
March 19th, 2009
Anyone who knows my husband and me also knows we love our grandchildren but get to see only half of them most of the time. This is because our son and daughter-in-law live in Texas and we see them only when we go to visit them or they come to visit her family and take a day or so to see us.
This week was one of the times our grandchildren came to see us, and it marks the first time we have had a photo taken of all four grandchildren at one time since our youngest grandson was a baby.
Without further ado I present our grandchildren to you:
So there you have it, the Red-Eye family! And yes, those are Caylee’s prints on the drapes. Pay no attention; they’re not there.
We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of our grandchildren together, and Ryan was so looking forward to meeting his cousin Patrick because he didn’t remember him from before but saw Kelsey last year. Plus he’s a boy cousin and that’s better than girl cousins to any boy.
Who would have thought we would have had so much noise with four kids in the house and a hyper puppy? I looked at myself in the mirror after Ashley and Ryan left and looked as though I were bald in front because I had been pushing my hair back from all the noise. But it was good noise and fun.
