Old Timers – Part 1

Peach talking! 🙂 Batman and I are to a nice season in life. Where we can remember the ‘old timer’s’ who came before us, and taught us by their examples, at home, at work, in school, in community, in faith. We need those old timers!! They can be annoying at times, but also, a veritable treasure trove of knowledge and depth of character and life experience. Not to mention humor! The best kind!

And now, we find ourselves, in some humble ways, carrying on the humankind tradition of segueing from the young and the taught, to the ‘seasoned’ and the teaching, while still and ALWAYS learning.

One way this transition is happening with us, is to be blessed to have finished raising our two kids and now we have FOUR grandkids!!! We can hardly believe it ourselves!! Being a grandparent is everything good you’ve ever been told, and then some!

We had our two grandsons over this weekend for an outing and a sleepover and general fun and shenanigans! We tried to purposely balance the extra special fun (putt putt golf, making homemade ice cream and banana splits) with ordinary fun (coloring while watching Pops’ hunting show, bubble baths, and helping pick up sticks in the yard, while we played and Pops cut the grass)!

We, at times, temporarily, toppled from our esteemed perch as venerable super heros, to stern meany faces, but, in the spirit of good cheer and charity, all was soon and always righted! Love, love, love those wonderful children!!

Kids are novices at life. If we don’t take the time and CARE enough to teach them courtesy, (“slow down just a tad, be gentle, let him have his turn, Yes, Sir, No, Ma’am, ok, put that back where you got it, if you’re done with it, great job!!! Way to go!!! Thank you!! You helped make this! We LOVE you!! We will go again to the putt putt golf place real soon!! No, not tomorrow! But, probably in about a month or two! You’re right, let’s say our prayers!”), IF we don’t care enough to train them in the ways that are good and true, life will surely teach them all the wrong things. Perish the thought that we shirk our privilege and responsibility. Besides, it is a JOY and a PLEASURE to get to do so!!

Amen!!

“But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; – 2 Titus 1-3