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Grandmothers and Spring Break
With my grandsons visiting last week during spring break, we planned some of the usual fun things we like to do together. Their parents took several days away on their own so we got a chance to enjoy the boys alone – shooting baskets at the park, cooking, bowling, playing piano duets, swimming, going on day trips, and, of course, lots of hugging. During one of those day trips in the car – to a rural farm where we all picked strawberries – I also spent some time talking with … Continue reading
Staycation Moonsets
Ever since we bought our first grandson the classic children’s book, Guess How Much I Love You, a week after he was born, the moon has been a symbol unifying our three young grandsons, who live two thousand miles away, and us. We used to read to them, tucked snugly on our laps, about how the mother hare loved her baby, “all the way to the moon and back,” and spread our arms as wide as we could showing how much we loved them. As they grew older, we would … Continue reading
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Tagged family, grandmother, grandson, love, moon, poem, staycation, sunrise
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Staycations Going Green
Today we have another set of pictures highlighting things to do on a family staycation. Here a grandmother talks about why these pictures are important to her:“Although I’m not a golfer myself, recently I got to “caddy” for my young grandson when he and my son played golf on a par three course. It was great getting to see the two of them interact away from the rest of the family. I can see that sometimes it is hard for my son to give each of his children the special … Continue reading
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Tagged exercise, family, golf, grandmother, grandson, Sandwiched Boomers, son, staycation
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Stepmothers are People Too
Several weeks ago, as the blog focused on grandmothering, we wrote about how to move into the role of a step-grandmother – with patience, flexibility, love and realistic expectations. Some comments came in from stepmothers, who have the same kinds of issues with their new families. They wondered if their relationships can be helped by the same kind of approach. With the continuing sizeable divorce rate, stepmothers now out number intact mothers in the United States. The step-moms in these blended families generally face far more tension with the children … Continue reading
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Tagged blended families, children, divorce, grandmother, stepdaughter, stepfathers, stepmothers
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