Eight years ago, my daughter fell
in love and married a single dad who alone was raising his two elementary-age children,
a little girl and her younger brother.
My grandbaby count doubled from two to four overnight.
With Christmas around the corner,
HB and I did not hesitate about adding them to our Christmas list, but we were
surprised when others did.
Our families are blended. We were ALL married, divorced, and married
again, and the innocents in all this drama are the children. HoneyBunch and I decided to look at it from
the perspective of the child and not from the ex-in-laws.
We would never separate the
grandchildren we acquired through birth from those we acquired as a bonus. God entrusted
us with this gift, and we honor it.
Our daughter added to her family
with two little boys, and one year after that, my youngest son introduced me to
his fiancé and her son. We added him to
our Christmas list, jotted his birthday into our calendar, and considered
ourselves blessed once again. At that point we had seven little grands to
spoil.
Since then we have added three
more birth babies into the motley crew we call family. Those who have not seen me in the last few
years wonder where HoneyBunch and I acquired so many grandbabies in so little
time.
Believe me; we had nothing to do
with it. HB and I just smile and enjoy being
grandparents to our growing family.
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