My daugher's arriving for the weekend with her family today and I've been looking forward to it all week, knowing I'd get to see 
those gorgeous grandkids for the first time since January, able to give them lots of hugs and love for a couple days. The bonus to having the ones from away come visit is that the entire family will be hanging around our house all weekend so all those kids and grandkids will be in the same place at the same time for us to enjoy. Life doesn't get any better than that!
Since there're three family birthdays in the course of a few days we'll be celebrating with a big dinner tomorrow night. The house seems small when the whole gang is around and it makes me smile to think about how we used to talk about "downsizing" when the kids grew up and moved out. I'm not sure how that would be possible unless we traded for a house with fewer bedrooms and bigger family rooms, so it would be a wash anyway.
I think we'll stay right where we are. Because when I see a grandchild run around any corner in this house I'm immediately transported back over twenty years, watching another little child, who looked incredibly similar to this one, come around the same corner. And when I bake cookies with these grandchildren I can tell them that their Mom or Dad sat in that very same spot and helped me bake cookies when they were little. They love hearing stories about their parents and seeing the places they did funny things or got into some sort of trouble way back when.
I'm really looking forward to having them all here this weekend. Being a grandparent is God's special gift - a chance to do it all again, avoiding the mistakes we made the last time and not worrying about the things we stressed about before. I can't wait to get them all under the same roof again.
those gorgeous grandkids for the first time since January, able to give them lots of hugs and love for a couple days. The bonus to having the ones from away come visit is that the entire family will be hanging around our house all weekend so all those kids and grandkids will be in the same place at the same time for us to enjoy. Life doesn't get any better than that!Since there're three family birthdays in the course of a few days we'll be celebrating with a big dinner tomorrow night. The house seems small when the whole gang is around and it makes me smile to think about how we used to talk about "downsizing" when the kids grew up and moved out. I'm not sure how that would be possible unless we traded for a house with fewer bedrooms and bigger family rooms, so it would be a wash anyway.
I think we'll stay right where we are. Because when I see a grandchild run around any corner in this house I'm immediately transported back over twenty years, watching another little child, who looked incredibly similar to this one, come around the same corner. And when I bake cookies with these grandchildren I can tell them that their Mom or Dad sat in that very same spot and helped me bake cookies when they were little. They love hearing stories about their parents and seeing the places they did funny things or got into some sort of trouble way back when.
I'm really looking forward to having them all here this weekend. Being a grandparent is God's special gift - a chance to do it all again, avoiding the mistakes we made the last time and not worrying about the things we stressed about before. I can't wait to get them all under the same roof again.
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