The Joys of Grandchildren

The Joys of
Grandchildren by Diann

My son and my daughter in law separated and he moved back in with me. He has two children, a boy and a girl. The boy is three and the girl is almost two. These children think they have to have all of the attention and most of the time they get it. If granny holds one child, she has to hold the other one too. Last night my son had classes and of course he had the kids. His classes lasted for two hours. Guess who had to watch these children while he was in class.
We made it to the house where his classes took place, about a minute til. He got out of the truck and started to go in the building. Before he could get the truck door shut, my granddaughter started to cry and yell, "Daddy, Daddy." He shut the door and went into his class. This child who I love dearly, started to cry, scream, and yell for her daddy even louder. This went on for about thirty minutes. Finally I got her attention and she calmed down. She looked at the dogs that were in a pen next to the parking lot where we parked. My grandson went to sleep until his sister woke him up. He tried to go back to sleep however his sister wouldn’t let him she wanted to climb. Now remember we were in a parking lot in my truck, waiting on my sons classes to end.
My son's class took a break about 8:00. He was sitting on the wall outside the house and he was smoking. I asked Taylor, that is my granddaughter's name, "Do you see Daddy?" That was a bad thing to do! The next thing I knew here came my son to the truck. My granddaughter saw her dad. She was so happy to see him. She smiled, and yelled, "Daddy." Guess what, break was over and he was gone again. For the next sixty minutes or so this child has a fit. I parked in a church parking lot and it was Wednesday at about 7:00. People started coming to church. Here I am with this child screaming, "Daddy, Daddy."She was crying and screaming so loud that I believe any minute now, my truck windows are going to explode in our laps. I hoped that the people who were at church, didn’t call the law and get me for child abuse. I tell you right now that I wasn’t even touching the child.
At about 8:30 my son ran out of his class. My granddaughter saw her dad.He opened the door and she went to screaming, "Daddy!" She started climbing over her brother and reached for her dad. When he climbed in the truck, my son asked her if she was,"Good for Granny." Then he asked her, "Do you want to go to McDonalds?" I took them to eat and both of them were fine. Then we went home. Needless to say when I got home I was ready for bed. Submitted by Diann