Daughter # 2 is 23 and excited to be buying her first car. New.
My oldest 25 and going to make me a grandfather in September.
I remember sitting with her on the couch when she was 1 or 2 and had chicken pox, watching the latest Blizzard to End All Blizzards march across the U.S.
And scarlet fever with them. Boyfriend breakups.
Vacations at the Maryland shore. Asateague. Williamsburg.
Their wonder at Niagara Falls. How quickly bleach will destroy a stainless steel paring knife. And in the butterfly they hatched from a caterpillar.
Teaching them to fish (oh you dirty bird) and shoot and backpack. How to start a fire with 1 match. And keep it going in the rain.
That day feeding the geese. And a wild horse dropping a mouthful of grass in my lap through the open car window.
It's not where you've been with them or what you've seen.
But how they remember it.
I told them none of this calling me grandpa or poppop stuff.
I am to be referred to as Dude.
Hooboy.
5 comments:
So, you remember all these things, DUDE ?
Yesurday,I changed A&J's nappies !
In 60 days time ( If all goes well ... ), they will be discharged from the IDF as Staff sergeants !!!
Alex.
Wow, that horse is really, REALLY insane looking.
Congratulations on your new Grand Child-soon to be born!!
It cannot be 27 years ago that I was changing diapers...!!
The horse is so cute-and he/she gave you a gift--:-)
C-CS
And I thought it was a carjacking in progress. . .
oh MR this was so lovely, it made my chest ache. I hope you will save a copy of this and share it with each of your daughters. Grandbabies are so wonderful! congratuatations! Trace is right, you will miss the childhood things you did with your daughters---but, a whole new phase is just beginning. Just wait til you look into the eyes of your grandchild for the first time and see your past and your future all at once.
Btw, September is a lovely month ;)
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