About Grandma's House Plus 4

OH NOOO! Photo by Lyn Lomasi (used with permission)

It doesn't really matter why and let me say, my daughter is a good Mom, yet, here I am “stuck” with my 4 grand-kids. Yup, they're all living in my house. It's been interesting, to say the least. After all, when you reach the age of 54, you figure, you're pretty much done with the whole parenting thing, right? Ya, well, in my case, not so much.

I love it.

I love the craziness, the randomness, the silliness, the stupidity, the immaturity, the love, the laughter, the pain, the inconvenience, the messy rooms, the dirty faces, the hand-prints on the walls and everything else that goes with having 4 kids in your house.

I love having the opportunity to spend so much time with them. I love being a Grandma full time, rather than here and there. I'm going to miss them when they go back to their normal lives.

On the other hand....

There are those messes and inconveniences. I know I said I loved them, but, well, if you're a parent, you know the drill. You love it. You hate it. You're amazed by it. You're amused by it. You can't get enough of it and yet, wish you could run away to an island for at least 45 minutes out of every day so you don't have to deal with it. Oh yes, you do. We all do. Even the most spectacular parents in the world need a break sometimes.

It's the same for grandparents.

So, here we are, me and my awesome, devastatingly handsome partner and these 4 kids. Oh and did I mention, my other daughter is here temporarily too? Ya, with her 2 dogs and 3 cats. Oh, and we have a dog and a cat. Oh, and one of the grand-kids has her dog here too. Oh my! So, really, it's more like plus a million. But you know what? It's OK.

We love each other. And it's going to be great. No, really it is. And when it's not, well, you can have a good laugh on us. Because here we go into the fray as they say.....

See you next post.