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Did I mention how beautiful
she is…
This
past weekend my oldest son brought our 15-month-old
granddaughter up to stay a few days. Let me just tell you
she is beautiful and smart….it is unbelievable how smart she
is. Did I mention how beautiful she was?
Not that I’m biased or anything like that. I just know cute
and smart when I see it. This girl is destined for big
things in life. You wait and see; you heard it first here on
this column.
Grandkids are a lot different than your kids. First of all
you get to enjoy them and second thing is… they go home. Not
the same with your own, is it? They just stay and stay and
stay. You can spoil grandkids all you want and then send
them back to their parents.
Of course, the hard thing about having kids or even
grandkids is to see them grow up so fast. We have one who is
thirteen and will be driving and going to college in just a
few years. Seems like just the other day she was crawling
and trying to pull herself up the way they do when they are
just learning how to walk. Now she is a teenager who is
looking like a little lady and you can really start to tell
what she will look like as an adult….did I mention that she
was beautiful and smart as well?
What is it about time that seems so upside down? When we
were young, time seemed to just drag by. We thought
Christmas would never get here. The end of the school year
was impossible to wait for….waiting for the day you could
actually get out onto the highway and drive was several
light years away for the majority of us.
Then things began to change, didn’t they? We could hardly
wait for some big date and then the time spent on the date
went by in matter of seconds. How does this work?
The older we get, the faster the time slides by for us. Now
the years are a blur. I look back upon the past twenty years
and they seem like yesterday, what happened? Our days seem
to be filled up with so much stuff that we fall into bed
each night wondering where the day went and why didn’t we
get everything accomplished that we set out to do. Then we
arise the next day more determined than ever to get
yesterdays chores done as well as those we have determined
need to be done for today. Is it any wonder why we are
exhausted by the time the weekend rolls around?
I wish I could put our lives on slow or pause and let time
just kind of catch up to where it should be. It is going
entirely too fast to suit me.
Another reason I don’t want time to move as fast is that I’m
not in any hurry to see these 2 granddaughters grow up and
start out into the dating scene. Now, I realize that’s some
years off, but for the thirteen year old that might not be
true. I bet I’ll have to do some investigating to see if
these young men qualify to be dating any of my
granddaughters.
That always reminds me of an old story about a old guy
standing on the corner waiting for a bus when a nice young
man walks up and asks him what time it was.
The old guy refuses to answer him.
The young man is confused and asks why he would not tell
him.
The old man explains.
“Son, it’s like this. If I tell you the time, then we’d
start talking. The next thing I know, I’d like you and
invite you over to our house for dinner. Then you’d meet my
beautiful daughter. You’re a nice looking; intelligent man
and she’d probably fall in love with you. Next thing you’d
know you’d be asking for her hand. “
The young man was still confused….”So what’s wrong with
that?”
“I don’t want my daughter marrying some guy who can’t afford
to buy a watch.”
That’s it for this week….
Also, take note that my first novel…’Manuel Muldoon’ has
just been published and is available on Amazon.com. My
second one is about finished as well. This has been a long
hard process for me and if you happen to buy it and read it,
I’d appreciate any comments you might make…good or bad. |