All tagged grandkids
As many of you know, I have four adult grandchildren in their 20s. They are confronting the only reality of American life they have ever known, but I have lived through at least three or four transmutations of America – especially the American economy.
Sandra and I invited Lydia and “the littles,” Laney, 9, and Luke, 6, to spend a week with us at Peppertree Resort at Atlantic Beach. Since both children are doing their schooling virtually, all we needed to school them was a decent high-speed internet connection. I had already checked Peppertree’s Wi-Fi and it was plenty fast.
Sandra and I are just two of the – ah – victims of fallout from the “virtual learning” Mondays decreed by Pitt County Schools. For the past few weeks, we have taken granddaughters Abby and Hannah home with us after church so they could spend the night and do their virtual assignments on Monday. Since Rachel and Joe both are teachers and must report to school on Mondays, they did not want to leave their girls home alone.
I have eight grandkids in the 6 to 13 age range. I offered them a challenge some time ago. If they learned Psalm 1 by memory and could recite it for me, then each one who completed the challenge would earn a five dollar bill. I am a believer in the importance of scripture memorization. David wrote in Psalm 119:11: “Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.”
You see, the wonder of love is that a parent can love a child with all of his or her heart – and yet still have plenty of love in that same heart for the other children. However, while a parent’s heart is a lake, a grandparent’s heart is an ocean.
