I can't say enough about the joys of spending time with grandchildren. They are exhausting, require great patience but give the wealth of their presence. They are one of the best experiences life has to offer.
Having grandchildren is my compensation for having missed having living grandparents.
I like to read the eloquent musings of others about grandchildren and grandparents:
Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents. --Gene Perret
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. --Gene Perret
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. --Author Unknown
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. --Rudolph Giuliani
A house needs a grandma in it. --Louisa May Alcott
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children. --Ruth Goode
When a child is born, so are grandmothers. --Judith Levy
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. --Allan Frome
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. --Ogden Nash
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. --Lois Wyse
Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things. --Author Unknown
The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. --Sam Levenson
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. --Mary H. Waldrip
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. --Italian Proverb
Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. --Author Unknown
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. --Gene Perret
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. --Gene Perret
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. --Erma Bombeck
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. --Gene Perret
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.--Alex Haley
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. --Andy Rooney
My grandchildren are almost old enough to get married and have their own children. I played with my grandchildren all their young years, and have only been so many miles away from them for 3 years. You are right to describe it as tiring, exhausting sometimes, to spend time with the grandkids, but so rewarding.
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