Growing Grandchildren in the Garden of Love

Are you a grandma or a grandpa?

Is your day filled with wet, sloppy kisses and sticky fingers wrapping themselves around your heart? Are you providing a home for a young son or daughter of your own son or daughter because they can’t or won’t, or because, at this moment in time, it is the best choice, for now? Are you the “babysitter”, doing the daily work while you have all the fun so that Mom or Dad can make a living? Are you sharing your home with your child and their family because it is simply too hard to make it separately; or because together you can offer a better life?

I am "Grandma Bevy".

Almost sixty, I have three unique and wonderful grandchildren. It is joyous, it is hard work, it is exhausting! It is an honor to grandmother them and I am blessed beyond measure by their presence and the presence of their parents in my life.

Would you like to write with me about granddarlings? Would you like to take up your pen each day for 20 days and share the delights and hardships of life shared; of love shared? Let me know and I will craft a program just for us. It could be the best present you can give yourself – or them.

The Course will begin Monday, January 31, 2011. We will write each Monday - Friday for three weeks ending Friday February 18th.

Imagine this - each night you will receive a simple phrase to use as your grandma or grandpa glasses the next day. As Nana, or Poppop, you will see your time with your grandchildren through the lens of this phrase. You do not have to be with a grandchild each day to reflect on how they enrich and complicate your life.
Then, each weekday evening, you will sit down and write three paragraphs, yes, just three, about what you "saw" through the lens of that phrase and send it to me.
Twice a week I will reply. No spell check, no grammar monster, just encouragement and delight at reading your words of wonderment and worry, frustration and celebration.
It is such an exciting process; won't you sign up and join me?
The cost is $129. Email me at bkipp@frontiernet.net for more details and a mailing address for your check.
Can't wait to hear from you!
joyfully,
bevelry


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