10.13.25 What’s the best part of being a grandparent?

It’s not the cliche that “you can spoil them and send them home.”

Being a grandparent allows you to be the parent you wish you had been the first time around, but couldn’t or weren’t.

A grandparent is calm, attentive, fun, forgiving… and never hurried.

We understand carpets can be cleaned, and that a child showing you a different rock for the 34th time is a blessing.

We don’t care much about bills, or that the slip-n-slide will kill the grass…it will grow back, but not as fast as they grow up.

We aren’t focused on our careers, chores, or ourselves.

We don’t care if a child is particularly good at sports, so long as she smiles as she runs off the field.

A grandchild sees strength and wisdom in our crow’s feet eyes, not age.

A grandparent sees hope and joy in those small, sparkling eyes.

We see each other for what we are.

The truest love either will ever know.

By Anonymous