This is a drawing of me....drawn by my 3 year old granddaughter. She was very serious about her drawing and used me as her model (I was sitting at the table with her). And no, I'm not that round. LOL I think that's pretty good for a three year old! Her portrait of her dad I think was even better.
I nanny two of my grandchildren and there are days that I wouldn't trade this job for anything and yes, they out number the days when I could just pull my hair out. It's hard at times because I'm not as young as I used to be and overdo it often (like playing baseball with my grandson or give my granddaughter piggy-back rides) but when I see my little granddaughter take such joy in "drawing grandma" it's all worth it. My grandson beat me at the card game Hand and Foot. I was distracted of course while posing for my portrait so we have a rematch tomorrow.
I have another grandson in town and we get to see him every couple weeks when he does a sleep-over with grandma and grandpa. We have fun together. We've been close since his birth and it's priceless when he comes bounding thru the door and running to give me a hug.
There is an old Welsh Proverb that says: "Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild." Its hard to explain that to someone who is not a grandparent but to me it's like the years of training up your own child in love to have it perfected when you have a grandchild. My children will be terrific grandparents and it would be awesome to be able to live long enough to see one of them become a grandparent.
