Life's like that!

My mind flashed back to a couple of years, as I saw the elderly couple, grandparents to the lovely naughty kids that they so lovingly tended to.
They looked liked a pair of twins, both boys and adorable, every evening accompanied by their grandparents they come to the playground here bat, ball and a spring in their step. The grandparents always running behind them trying their best to keep up with the Little Rascals.
Flash..Flash..Flash... I am reminded of the years, when I was a working lady we needed help ..a whole lot of maids came and went off faster than they came none of them had a genuine liking for kids just an artifical one all set up to seem like they did.Our parents were there ever willing to help out any time of the day or night. We would take the kids and leave them in their care, secure in the knowledge that they would be looked after, very well . Their schedules always revolved around the kids vacations and it used to rattle us that during the days when our parents, needed to relax and have THEIR TIME, here we were literally piling our problems on them. Not once did they whimper or groan, instead whenever the kids were kept back at our home, they would call to say they miss them and that the day is soooo long..without the little darlings. going to work was so much easier, with not a worry about the kids .
I have read, an article where it is said that Grandparents are toys in kids hands and I do believe that. My kids would be spoilt rotten, every wish was granted and every dish that they wanted was made, Coming home to us after my job finished was a military camp for them, they would cry to go to Mama & Papa(Thats what they call them).. it took a little over a year to get them to change and it is with gratitude that I write this article gratitude to all parents who give selflessly, and make it seem like it is their duty to look after our kids...GOD BLESS THEM.