Who will remember you when you’re dead and gone? Will your legacy simply fill a rectangle on a family tree or will the people on the lower branches remember who you were, where you were born, what school you attended, your struggle, the endearments you called your spouse, your favorite ice [...]
The other day my 20 month-old grandson wagged his one and one-quarter inch pointer finger at me, in admonishment. I didn’t need to ask where he learned it—he got it from me. My inner grandmother cringed. Since when had I become the disciplinarian in this scenario?
My grandson underwent a tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy this week. Even though I have been his primary caregiver for over one year, my role was secondary that long day in the hospital. I wasn’t invited into the prep room; I didn’t get a yellow gown and a hairnet; I wasn’t awarded [...]
My friends want to be just like me—a grandmother, that is. “I’m going to do that, too,” they say, when I tell them about my daily life with a three year-old and an eighteen-month old. They want to have the special snacks at the ready in their refrigerators; they, too, will give [...]
My husband’s grandmother is 103 years old. She is legally blind, deaf, and bedridden, and won’t let go of life. She’s holding on, I believe, to see three of her great-grandsons, three out of the nine grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren in her family. Of all of them, these three grandsons are her [...]
Lack of control is what got you here in the first place. If you would have been able to direct your children’s lives on the path you had dreamed for them, you probably wouldn’t be raising your grandchildren right now. Have you got control of them?
When my daughters were growing up, sleepovers at their [...]
My grandson is into pirates. Between the daily swashbuckling, the crooked bandanas and the black eye patch, I try to sneak in lessons about bad pirates and good pirates. It’s difficult sometimes because pirate aspirations are to pillage and plunder. Is it any wonder the response of my pirate-with-a-pacifier is a steady “Aarrrgh!”?
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