I've been catching up and resting up since our quick trip to Iowa last Thursday through Monday, and blogging a bit on my other blog. We visit the grandkids quarterly. This past weekend, we saw two soccer games and one football game. I thought I'd share a few pictures and then some lovely quotations that our daughter sent to us on Tuesday.
Here is No. 1 Grandson handing off the football under Coach Dad's tutelage.
Here is #1 Granddaughter, about to score in her first ever soccer game.
Below: Me re-living my college basketball days in the driveway.
Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change,
and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret
Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls. ~Author Unknown
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~Welsh Proverb
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead
of the television. ~Author Unknown
Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just
a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because
Grandparents have only so many horsy rides in them. ~Gene Perret (why I do back exercises regularly)
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~Ogden Nash
Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just
you all day and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown
Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our
hearts forever. ~Author Unknown
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren,
I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after
two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should
advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is
no fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith
It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the
world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown
You do not really understand something unless you can explain
it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again.
Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret
The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You
feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long
periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry (or, in our case, stay in Arizona)
I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for
self-defense. ~Gene Perret
Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas
are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of
little children. ~Alex Haley (this one made me remember my grandmother, who died in 1954).
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e long-lasting nightmares of sleeping in my bedroom with damp towels blocking the door toward my living area where mold remediation was in process. The picture on the right is NOT of me doing the remediation -- I hired professionals.
To the right is an artist's rendition of the layout for Aspen Place, with Butler Road running along the top and the to-be-reconfigured Lonetree Road on the left.
brates the "Mother Road" (Route 66) this weekend with a car show, outdoor movie, live music, art and craft show, beer and food.