A Tired, but Happy Grandma!

Susannah and I spent the week taking care of Carolyn's children while they went to Cancun, Mexico for a getaway. This was the first time she has left her children for any given length of time and now I understand why she needed a break! I think over the years we tend to forget how much work raising a family is. Anyone that says being a full time mother is an easy job and not much work has never had the job! Some nights Grant would be up at 4:00am and ready to play. Other nights he would cry and cry and finally have to be rocked to sleep. By the time we would get him back to sleep at 6:00am the girls would be up for the day. At least there was tw0 of us so we could tag team each other. I worked at Walgreens three of the five days that they were gone, so Susannah did the major share of the work. She was so good to go and do it without complaining. She will make a good mommy some day!

This was one night when Grant was up and wouldn't go to sleep. He tried and tried to put on the sunglasses and finally got them on...albeit upside down and over his nose instead of his eyes!

We did craft things with Juliana and Malia everyday to keep them busy. These were the sunglasses they decorated with jewels...aren't they lovely?

Every morning we would let them swim in their kiddie pool. They would spend hours out there, and usually get Grant soaked. He didn't even mind as long as they stayed out of his way and let him go down the slide! I love my grandkids! Cute, smart and way too funny!