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Grandmas and grandpas...opportunity knocks! Ideas during COVID
They say you have never loved so unconditionally as when that first grandchild arrives. Your capacity for forgiveness increases, you let go of your critical and judgmental side and you laugh joyously and frequently.
And now???? Now you have an opportunity to spend more quality time with your "grands" as they are called. You may have to learn how to be part of a group going live on Instagram. I barged in on my granddaughter and her friends one day when I figured it out. Oops...not the right time. She just looked at the screen and when someone asked, "What's the matter?" her mouth dropped, and she just said, "It's my grandmother." Everyone immediately disappeared. Ha ha ha ha.......!
So while we are isolated let's take advantage of an opportunity to spend more time playing with, talking with, singing with, messaging, facetiming. Let's use the technology that's available to us. Set up a schedule, or a show and tell, or a teaching session. Let's present some options for every age.
Take some photos to share and don't forget to look at the post downstream about killing two birds with one stone. I am using just initials and no names. That is your choice. Please do not use identifying names, phone numbers, emails, or locations.
Ready.....set......go gramps.......this was the first time he got to take a walk in the forest with his new grandson. Biggest smile I have ever seen on that loving face,
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@fiesty76 What a great idea for me in apartment to do Wonder if you can do this with beets also.
@artscaping. What a cutie! I have only video chat with my one and only grandchild. He is a ham, when he knows his parents are filming him, he would say "cheese"! He's going to be 2 next month and they're toilet training him. Apparently nowadays there's a "weekend method". I am going to visit my daughter for a week come Saturday, both she and her husband and myself have been self quarantine for 3 months so we think it's pretty safe. After I come back, I'll try to get an audience with my grandson Caleb. He's growing up too fast, knows all the letters of the alphabet and numbers too. I'm missing all that and sometimes I'm sad. But I'm grateful we are all well. Here's to all the grandparents who don't get to hug their grandchildren.
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1 Reaction@mayofeb Glad you,LL get to see your daughter I haven't seen anyone yet but heard on phone calls miss them all .Grandson is 12 now no time for grandma now. Son told me he is busy creating programs on computer .Think he is going to be into computers doing something .Kids are so smart now
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1 ReactionHi, @lioness, So far success! Read something about it working for root veggies so bet beets might work too! Also started a sweet potato vine in water just to see what will happen...so far the little knobs are lengthening
Oh, artscaping, How perfectly adorable is this little fetching Miss Millie!
@fiesty76 Good I had Romaine lettuce so started it in waster as well as onion and carrot . Do you start them all in water till you see some roots coming then transplant? This is so exciting to me the little things like this also excite my lol. Hope your having a good day . Glad to hear Fred,s girls are coming that will make him feel better and you also . Keep us posted about everyone. Take care
@lioness, Yes, I started all in water and then a few green onions in potting soil to see if there was any difference. I change the water daily. My carrot top got mushy on the bottom so tossed it but the celery continues to add leaves and both onion "trys" have lengthening stems. I put mine in a sunny place ... don't know if they, like humans need Vit D but most veggies do well in sunny landscapes. Have fun...something to look forward to each day.
Yes, it is wonderful that the daughters are here for Fred. They insisted on staying at a motel. My friend went home yesterday and the hospice grp came to turn her and hurt her....hadn't realized she was as frail and injured as she is. The daughter has already been confrontational with Fred which was terribly upsetting for my friend. The last thing she needs is strife; the pain meds sent home aren't working so Hospice is changing those. What needs to happen is that daughter be made to leave; nurses be hired round the clock and Fred and friend be surrounded by peace, cooperation, help, and comfort. I feel so helpless not being there with them but I cannot make the daughter leave or hire the pros needed to care for her. Thank you for your good will and thoughts. We can be more merciful for our pets than for those we dearly love; that I can hardly bear.
@fiesty76 Yes this is true . My next door neighbor had hospice care which I was on duty for they take good care of there patient . It is true the daughter needs to hire them she will need 24 hr care . This will relief her also
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2 ReactionsJust reread this now have gotten some ideas so will get out my albums I have been sending him some crazy cards but will put photos in also any ideas for Halloween He won't be going out this year first year I won't be there giving out candy either so any ideas will be appreciated
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2 ReactionsI think that picture is wonderful! The children are adorable and the landscaping (?) is simply gorgeous! Love the brick work! My family (father, grandfather, uncle, husband, sons -- all bricklayers to say nothing of brothers, brother-in-law, nephews--all bricklayers who are teachers of bricklaying and tile and I don't know what else. I didn't realize how excited I got over that subject. My sister and I when we were really young maybe seven and eight, took hoes and stirred mortar for our dad. It was really hard but we wanted to do it. We tried lifting blocks but couldn't even pick them up. So, the girls didn't become bricklayers, just wives of them. The boys took up the trade. I don't think my grandchildren have done it yet. My one grandson finishes cement. They are all perfectionist. I am so proud of my porch. My son laid the block foundation. It's perfect. He has two daughters who are in school. I don't know what they will be. My granddaughter is a social worker. She has two little boys whom I miss with all my heart. I miss all of my grands and great grands. I don't see them on the social media or whatever it's called. Oh how I miss them.
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