In Michigan City, IN, on Lake Michigan, there is a white-framed house with green shutters and a white picket fence. It is my grandmother and grandfather's family beach home. I have so many happy summer memories of that house. I think of my grandmother's laugh, seeing delicious fresh ears of corn simmering in the large pot on top of her stove, building sandcastles in the sand on the water's shore with my cousins, and waiting for my grandmother to come down to the beach with baskets of food for lunch. Our family stayed together because we spent time together. My grandmother loved being a grandmother. She was the glue that held our family together.
Isn't that true of so many families, darlings? How important it is for those of us who are grandmothers to remember that we are often the glue helping teach our children and grandchildren what it means to stick together through thick and thin. Isn't that what family is all about? On that note, I did some research and found these facts, via Grandparents.com, to share with you about being a grandparent.
Did you know...
- Grandparents love being grandparents! So what else is new?! 90% of us talk about our grandchildren to just about everyone! 72% think being a grandparent is the single most important role in their life.
Many years have passed since I was that young child munching on my grandmother's delicious sweet summer corn in her charming beach home. I am now a grandmother myself with 22 grandchildren in my blended family. And yet, in many ways, the role of the grandmother has not changed...we continue bestowing love and values to our Grands. We are a very special group of women! Take a bow, darlings!