This posting may not be interesting to you, and you may want to skip reading it because I am writing it for me. Ultimately our blog is for us to read and reread when we can no longer travel as a way of reliving our adventures so if you are not interested in the musings of a grandparent, you may want to just skip this one.
Yesterday, we met Rebekah, our granddaughter, to see her dorm room, meet roommates and have dinner all squeezed in-between her busy class and extracurricular activities at Emery-Riddle. As we visited, I was overtaken by the realization that she has developed into an intelligent, caring, young lady who knows who she is and is not afraid to stand up for her values. Her parents have done an excellent job of raising her and she will become a valued member of society someday. Recently spending several days with the other three grandchildren, I realized they are all headed in that same direction, thanks to their parents.
You can’t help but remember when they were babies; just blank slates waiting for direction and some of things they tried to get away with. Remember the terrible twos and that precocious period when you had to bite your lip to keep from laughing at something they said but probably shouldn’t have. Those early school days when they were just getting started learning how to interact with all the other kids who did not think or act the same as they were taught. Preteen years when maybe awkward was the best way to describe them. Although we may try to block it out but remember the teen years, when you kept wondering, who is this stranger and what have you done with my grandkid? Then suddenly one day, they graduate from high school and become young adults with responsibilities and decisions to make that will help to direct the rest of their lives. How gratifying to know we will be leaving this world in the hands of young people like these. I wish I could say that I did something to make them this way, but all the credit belongs to the parents.
Thank you, God, for all the parents who take their parenting job seriously and produce great kids for we grandparents to enjoy.
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