It's 6:30 am and the baby is already waking up. Luckily I am married to a morning person who loves his morning time with his coffee. He happily gets up and retrieves the little one and goes downstairs, leaving me peacefully in bed. My turn will come later in the day when he runs errands or just chills for awhile and pursues his interests.
Such is a day in the life of grandparents caring for a young grandchild. We don't personally know any other friends in this situation, which makes it awkward to try to get together. Our daughter works a fulltime job, so we have her little guy when she works and sometimes at night when she works late. He's a sweet little boy, little blue baby eyes and a smile that lights up the room.
In these days when life issues are at the forefront of the news and political agendas, we are fully aware of how things could have turned out if his mother had decided to terminate her pregnancy. Her life would be less complicated then, for sure. Oh and to think of what my husband and I could be doing right now! We have a brand new camper out back only used 2 times since last summer since we purchased it. But wait, that is total nonsense, camping can wait until he is older and can happily go with us and enjoy the outdoors. That is really the way we are thinking. Yes, yes, it's hard when he cries for everything at this point in his little 9-month old life. But, when he laughs at something my husband does or at a cat walking by him, they are the golden moments.
We both are exhausted at the end of the day, but we sleep well knowing that the day was spent loving a little boy that came into our lives unplanned, but loved and accepted.
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