It Doesn’t Get Better Than This

“Grandchildren are god’s reward for not having killed your own kids.” anon When S. and I were rewarded with our first grandchild, my first act was to go to Amazon to look for books that would tell me how to be a good grandparent or at least not screw it up too badly.  I ordered six of them that have long since gathered dust on my bookshelves in my office at the farm.  I glanced at them and may have even skimmed through the table of contents, only to quickly realize that whoever these books were written for, it wasn’t me.  If there is a grandparenting skill that I could have taken lessons on, it would be titled, “How to tell your friends and neighbors that your...