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Our Wedding Day. September 2, 2007. My dad shook his head as if I had asked him whether he had visited the moon. “What? No! Of course not!” My crazy question was this: When you found out you were going to be grandparents, did you and Mom talk about what kind of grandparents you would be? After my dad’s […]
Ayden, Visiting Annie, the Miniature Horse Next Door. May, 2007. “When I was a little boy,” our friend Hiram said to me at church one morning, “visiting my grandmother was about the very best thing in the world. I was always so happy when my mother told me we were going to see her.” His […]
My Mother-In-Law Beth Meeting My Grandson, Sawyer, Age Ten Weeks. January, 2011. It happened one Christmas. My daughter Elaine, who was eight or nine, and I were among the guests at my grandfather’s house. We lingered at the table, deconstructing the endless ephemera that, in my family, goes with coffee. We were a congenial group of […]
Rich and Our Grandson Ayden on Our Wedding Day. September 2, 2007. One of the oddities of becoming a grandparent is that sometimes, your (adult) children tell you what to do. And sometimes that thing they tell you to do is not what you want to do. How do you sort out the best course of action? Last […]
A Lala (Grandma) Is Born. Welcoming My First Grandchild, Cadence James. September 30, 2006. [Got a minute? Take a survey before May 31 to be entered in a drawing for a $75 Amazon gift card! And sleep better tonight knowing you helped an author conduct research for her next book. Thank you! Love, Sheila] Prior […]
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