This was a day I won’t forget. I won’t let myself forget it. Here is how quality time with my grandparents unfolded one afternoon. I was in college at the time and assigned a project to record the childhood of someone important to me. I chose my grandma, who I knew…
Surviving in a Multi-Generational Household
When my husband and I retired early, we pictured long leisurely mornings reading the paper over breakfast. Maybe a nice stroll through the development across the street or walking the dogs in the woods behind the house, you know, a retired type of lifestyle. Then my daughter and her husband…
Being a Grandparent
When my friends would talk about being a grandparent, I would roll my eyes (secretly of course, not in front of them.) I couldn’t figure out what the big deal was, after all wasn’t it the same “dirty diapers, throwing up all over you” routine? THEN I became a grandparent.…