My Grandson's First Day In College
Monday Morning, September 21, 2015
I walked 7,922 steps this morning. I will complete the 10 K steps with an afternoon walk.
Woo-Hoo!! Well it finally happened, my grandson, David, (not his real name, I don't want to embarass him) had his first day at the university today. He graduated in early June with some fairly good grades and got an invitation to a UC school which accepted. This is when I feel that I am getting older. This is the boy that was born 18 years ago. I was there in the hospital room when he popped out. The first thing that I noticed were his big hands. He had some pretty big hands for a little baby. Life is like a blur, where did these 18 years go? Woo-Hoo!
David and his mom, my daughter, lived with me for the first 4 or 5 years of David's life. I would always remind him that I was the one that changed his dirty diapers, prepared his formula, bathed him, took him for bike rides, during the first years of his life. And now, his is at the university. Before he left on Saturday, I told him that I envied him, the good kind of envy. If I could go back to a time in life where I had loads of fun, it would be my university experience. I told him that he was going to have a blast in college. Lots of work with a lot of fun. I also gave him some advice; make sure and get your sleep, this boy has a habit of staying up late and getting up late. He is certainly not going to be able to do this and make it to class on time. And I also told him be aware of his surrounding, listen to your gut feeling. If things don't feel right in your gut, they are probably not right. I gave him this advice plus much, much, more. I was very blessed and lucky to have had him living close to me. We started going to the movies very early in his life and continued going to movies up until last week, days before he left for the university. Going to the movies gave us an opportunity to talk afterwards. We would go and get a hamburger or a burrito and talk for a couple of hours. It gave me a chance to catch up on what and how he was doing in school and in sports.
I am enjoying this day because this is a first. This first day, of his beginning his university experience, will never happen again. It is really an unexpected delight, a high, to be experiencing this day. This is what I hope to write about, I want to write about the changes that happen this year, the highs, the lows, the things I do for the first time, the things I do for the last time. Remember that being seventy doesn't happen in one day, it is a whole year. It is not over until I hit seventy-one. So I will have a lot to write about. Stay with me.
When I would talk to David I would always say to him that he was blessed and lucky to have a grandfather like me. I never had a grandfather like me, someone that would take me on vacations, to the movies, someone that I could just talk to. I guess I tried to be the grandfather that I never had. On the other hand my grandfather on my father's side had over 40 grandkids. I guess I am lucky that he remembered my name. I do have to give him some credit.
Stay healthy my friends!!
I walked 7,922 steps this morning. I will complete the 10 K steps with an afternoon walk.
Woo-Hoo!! Well it finally happened, my grandson, David, (not his real name, I don't want to embarass him) had his first day at the university today. He graduated in early June with some fairly good grades and got an invitation to a UC school which accepted. This is when I feel that I am getting older. This is the boy that was born 18 years ago. I was there in the hospital room when he popped out. The first thing that I noticed were his big hands. He had some pretty big hands for a little baby. Life is like a blur, where did these 18 years go? Woo-Hoo!
David and his mom, my daughter, lived with me for the first 4 or 5 years of David's life. I would always remind him that I was the one that changed his dirty diapers, prepared his formula, bathed him, took him for bike rides, during the first years of his life. And now, his is at the university. Before he left on Saturday, I told him that I envied him, the good kind of envy. If I could go back to a time in life where I had loads of fun, it would be my university experience. I told him that he was going to have a blast in college. Lots of work with a lot of fun. I also gave him some advice; make sure and get your sleep, this boy has a habit of staying up late and getting up late. He is certainly not going to be able to do this and make it to class on time. And I also told him be aware of his surrounding, listen to your gut feeling. If things don't feel right in your gut, they are probably not right. I gave him this advice plus much, much, more. I was very blessed and lucky to have had him living close to me. We started going to the movies very early in his life and continued going to movies up until last week, days before he left for the university. Going to the movies gave us an opportunity to talk afterwards. We would go and get a hamburger or a burrito and talk for a couple of hours. It gave me a chance to catch up on what and how he was doing in school and in sports.
I am enjoying this day because this is a first. This first day, of his beginning his university experience, will never happen again. It is really an unexpected delight, a high, to be experiencing this day. This is what I hope to write about, I want to write about the changes that happen this year, the highs, the lows, the things I do for the first time, the things I do for the last time. Remember that being seventy doesn't happen in one day, it is a whole year. It is not over until I hit seventy-one. So I will have a lot to write about. Stay with me.
When I would talk to David I would always say to him that he was blessed and lucky to have a grandfather like me. I never had a grandfather like me, someone that would take me on vacations, to the movies, someone that I could just talk to. I guess I tried to be the grandfather that I never had. On the other hand my grandfather on my father's side had over 40 grandkids. I guess I am lucky that he remembered my name. I do have to give him some credit.
Stay healthy my friends!!
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