Your grandfather sounds like a great (word carefully chosen) person.
My mother-in-law (my children's only living grandparent) is a woman with many wonderful qualities, but your grandfather has one that she doesn't, and I suspect it makes his life richer and happier than hers: being proud of children/grandchildren "because all of them are good people who use their skills to be positive influences on the world." But she is very focused on college education and professional job. My mother, however, who lived with us the last 5+ years of her life (she died when the kids were almost-15, 14, 11, and 7) gave her grandchildren unconditional love, so they did have that.
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Date: 2008-08-19 01:29 pm (UTC)My mother-in-law (my children's only living grandparent) is a woman with many wonderful qualities, but your grandfather has one that she doesn't, and I suspect it makes his life richer and happier than hers: being proud of children/grandchildren "because all of them are good people who use their skills to be positive influences on the world." But she is very focused on college education and professional job. My mother, however, who lived with us the last 5+ years of her life (she died when the kids were almost-15, 14, 11, and 7) gave her grandchildren unconditional love, so they did have that.