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- From: "Elizabeth Kay" <ebeth.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "harold kitching" <"harold.��kitching01"@googlemail.com>, "guide chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:52:22 +0100
Hi Harold, I loved reading about your experiences with your grandchildren. I
have happy recollections of my own grandchildren as they were growing up and I
agree they are God's blessings. This was a long time ago however as they
are now all adults. I now have six great grand children but regretfully I do
not see them very often. Five of them live too far awaay for me to have any
serious relationships with. Tthe youngest lives not too far away but is only
eleven months old. I hpe I live long enough to enjoy some happy expeiences with
her. Barnabas, who lives in Eastbourne has started school for the firsr time
this week. He was born prenaturely and suffered problems after he was born but
is now a happy robust little boy. I was able to spend some time with him during
the summer and we got on fine. He observed me using a walking stick to get
about and having a bit of a struggle gettimg out of a chair. He looked at me
gravely and said "There must be something wrong with your bones, but I will
help you". After this he took hold of my hand every time I got up to move and
escorted me whrever I wanted to go. Visiting a garden centre he held on to my
three wheeled walking aid to guide me around. I managed to escape when his
father took him to look at the fish swimming in the onamental pond. A happy
experience but different fromthe ones use to enjoy with grand children many
years ago when I was an active participating grandma. Elizabeth
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From: harold kitching - Email Address: harold.ÀÇkitching01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 10/09/2012 21:44
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Subject: The Gift of Grandparenting
Every Grandparent can testify that if someone would have just told them
that
grandchildren were so much fun, the choice would have been made to have
them
first!
Grandma was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful
eyes
of her young granddaughter as she'd done many times before. After she
applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, 'But
Gramma,
you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!'
My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy
Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, '62.' He was quiet
for
a moment, and then he asked, 'Did you start at 1?'
Grandparents have one thing God doesn't have: GRANDCHILDREN!!!!
After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into
old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she
heard
the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin.
Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room,
putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she
heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, 'Who was THAT?'
A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own
childhood was like: 'We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing
made
from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We
picked wild raspberries in the woods.' The little girl was wide-eyed,
taking
this all in. At last she said, 'I sure wish I'd gotten to know you
sooner!'
In the car my four-year-old granddaughter asked me why I was wearing the
brightly colored scarf I had on. "I thought it would make my blue suit
look
much prettier," I said. After a moment's consideration, she replied
sympathetically, "It didn't work, did it?"
I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I
decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it
was.
She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I
continued.
At last she headed for the door, saying sagely, 'Grandpa, I think you
should
try to figure out some of these yourself!'
When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, 'I'm not
sure.' 'Look in your underwear, Grandpa,' he advised. 'mine says I'm four
to
six.'
A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother,
'Grandma,
guess what? We learned how to make babies today.' The grandmother, more
than
a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. 'That's interesting, ' she
said,
'how do you make babies?' 'It's simple,' replied the girl. 'You just
change
'y' to 'i' and add 'es'.'
Proverbs 17:6
God intends for our grandchildren to be our crowning glory and for our
children to be proud of us, their parents.
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