What, you ask are you loving so much that you need to scream it in capital letters?! Watching my daughter prepare her mind for the upcoming task of parenthood,thats what. This is going to be even more fun then I expected! Sure having a new grandchild around to love and cherish (and sometimes,well maybe most times..spoil) is going to be the greatest thing since the birth of my own child. BUT watching my own child go through all of the issues and choices and decisions that go along with raising a child is well ,the absolutely thick icing on the cake!!
I know my daughter appreciates me allot. She tells me how much she loves me and what a great job I did with her often. But she is going to really, really appreciate me even all the more when she is going through it with her own child. Ahhhhh...the pleasure of this is just exquisite!!
I wonder if all grandparents get this little smile on their face as they watch their children deal with the grandchildren ....I'm sure I'm not alone in this.Yes I am going to enjoy this . I'm not mean really I'm not and I am truly excited for her to also experience the pure love and joy that your own child can bring you.
But when that little tyke is refusing to go to bed,or trying your patience for the gazillionth time,or wrote all over the bedroom wall with your lipstick that day and you are exhausted from work,and she calls me to tell me "your grandson is making me crazy!" yes a small smile will be playing around my mouth as I say back "aww honey ,that's terrible. Have you tried this...?" (insert some motherly advice,but not too much of course..) hee hee.
Ahhhh I am going to LOVE being a grandmother.
You're not mean, huh? evil perhaps.... ;) And I have a feeling someone in this house will be getting payback and it might not be me lol! And THAT is something to smile about!!! :) Besides I got enough payback with Dad, don't ya think....I'll be yelling "oh, Fred- you're son doesn't want to go to school today..." LMAO!
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