A New Grandkid Arrives
Meet Silas Noah. He seems confused. Welcome to reality, Silas. He would be my sixth grandchild, and ninth if you count the step-grandkids, which I do. That means I have as many grandkids as my […]
Tag: grandkids
The Wisdom of the Zen Grandma
After showing me photos of her adorable one-year-old granddaughter over coffee recently, a fellow grandma got down to business; complaining about her son and daughter-in law’s parenting. “Sadie isn’t allowed to eat any junk food,” […]
Will I be a grandfather or a grandmother?
Yeah, life. It’s a thing, ain’t it? You’re rolling along, way too busy, doing too much of what you don’t really want to do and not enough of what you do. Then, one day, you […]
Glow in the Dog
I gave the grand-twins a glow-in-the-dark model of the solar system for Christmas, but my daughter tells me the planets won’t glow. Now I’m beginning to worry that my dog may have licked the glow […]
Christmas In Almost February
Winter almost beat the Hunter family Christmas celebration. Almost. But in the end we celebrated, if only a month or so late. First there was illness. Then work schedules. Then more illness. Then weather. Illness. […]
Friday Humor Devotional
Dear Lord, please forgive me for losing my temper with my father. When he offered to drag the kids along while he was food shopping I didn’t think he meant literally, Amen. P.s. Don’t forget […]
Frozen Feasting At Fall Festivals
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK This time of year, as leaves turn to glorious multicolor, steamy hot days of summer vanish, and autumn decorations go up, I can often be found … crying. […]
Splash Pad: The Safest Place To Freeze
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I had a chance to watch my grandkids playing in Albion’s splash pad the other day, and it took me back to my childhood: Jumping in the water, splashing around, […]
The Sweet Sweet Smell of My Grandkids’ Grandma
On the night of Valentine’s Day, 2014, I was caring for three of my grandchildren. (What else would I be doing on Valentine’s Day?) My grandkids had already had their snacks for the […]
Friday Humor Devotional
Dear Lord, please forgive our 3-year-old grandson’s snowy entrepreneurial mistake. When he asked if we wanted to buy his lemon snow cones from his winter lemonade stand we didn’t realize our dogs were his silent […]