On Having Grandchildren

Funny, I thought that I had written this.

I am now a grandfather. Have been for five months. My little grand-daughter has captured my heart. Luckily she only lives about 60 miles or an hour and a quarters drive away so we see her nearly every week. I wouldn't want it to be longer than that. My neighbors have their grandparents only about 15 minutes drive away, and they are always over, but they do do a lot of looking after their children.

I guess the thought behind this note is the fact that I emigrated from Canada back to England and then we had children, and the thought now about what this did to my parents, who only came to England every other year and missed so much of their grand-children's growing up. I would not like that. How it must have hurt them every time they had to leave, but I didn't think of that at the time.

Of course, having those children also made it difficult to go back to Canada for me so that they could be closer.

Grand-children are real treasures.