Off to Grandma’s house! Summer can provide more frequent opportunities to ship the kids off to spend quality time with grandparents for a day, a weekend or even a week at a time.
What a fabulous way for our kids to share time with these loved ones (and give us a break!), but I love learning about the other side … from a Grandma! Holly Schurter has written several “Grandma’s House” articles for Springfield Moms, and I know she will make you smile in her post below. Enjoy!
“After forty years of marriage in which we raised eight children, you might think my husband and I are ready for anything. We thought so, too, til the grandkids started coming to visit, usually one or two or three at a time.
There are thirteen of them, now, with the promise of more. And we’re glad about that — we look at them as gifts from God, and who would turn down a gift from God?
The problem is our grandkids are quicker than our kids were. I mean faster. As in, they get away from us more speedily.
It’s not funny, especially when they are naked and on their way out the door. Not that such a thing has actually happened to us.
At least, not too often.
The neighbors are getting used to it, though. When they see the trikes and wagons in the driveway again, they cross over to the other side of the street.
Actually, the neighbors should be glad they aren’t inside at the dinner table, where we have interesting conversations with our grandkids.
“Grandma, how old are you?” they asked one day.
“Old enough,” I said.
“No really — how old are you?” they asked again.
“How old do you think I am?” I asked.
After conferring, the six-year old was elected to answer.
“We think you are really, really, really old,” she said.
Once they asked why my hair isn’t as white as grandpa’s. Grandpa would like to know the answer to that question, as well.
The questions we really like to answer are the ones they ask about their own parents, that is, the children we raised.
“Was mom mischievous?” they ask.
“Define mischievous,” we answer, and smile.
Your secrets are safe with us.
Really.”
Submitted by Springfield Moms contributor Holly Schurter. Holly is married to John; they are parents of eight children and grandparents to thirteen, including four who live in the Springfield area.
