So we are going on 8 days since Brayden was born. I find it incredible that it has already been over 1-week. Things are going very well and I am adjusting to changing diapers and getting up every 3 or so hours at night for various reasons.
I've been joking around with people saying, "Now I know why Class Action doesn't want to go back to work. It's fun hanging out all day with the kids and not having to do anything." This is my second week off work and am really enjoying myself. I haven't gotten much of anything accomplished though. Sometimes I wonder about that. I am use to working 60-80 hours a week between my day job and media business. This has sort of been like the vacation I needed. Even on our 'real vacation' I was working so we could take it as a tax deduction.
Tonight I was talking to Class Action and we were discussing Great Grandparents. His kids got a chance to meet his and his wife's GGPs. That's one thing I wish so much for Brayden, that he could have gotten to meet my dad's parents and my mom's parents. They were both amazing role models for me when I was a kid, and I wish that Brayden could benefit from that exposure as he got older. Freak. I should have had kids when I was younger.
I always loved going to Grandpa and Grandma's house. One set lived in Illinois, the other in Hawaii. Talk about a climate contrast. I could always count on Grandma Root having fun games for me to play. And I mean -real- games. Not this electronic high-tech garbage we have today. But good ol' home grown games. Likewise I could always count on following Grandpa Mikami around as he worked in the garden or helping mow the yard with one of those mowers with the blades that rotated on a drum, like really old school. You had to push it! There was no gas powered engine! Oddly, I also loved going with Grandpa Mikami to the trash dump in his 1940's Army Jeep. At one point, I wanted to be a trash man when I learned they made like $50,000/year. lol
Those days were long ago. I'm glad Brayden will at least get to know his GPs. And I'll have to tell him stories about his GGPs. I wish I would have been in video/photo back in the day. All those times would have been awesome to have captured for future generations.
Sometimes I wonder how good all this technology really is for us. On the one hand it seems to make life easier. But on the other, it seems to make life more complicated. For me, I am looking to get back to simpler times.
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My nephew has all this fancy toys that make noise and light up and has "his shows" that he likes to watch and... it's just too much in my opinion.
What happened to blocks? Legos? Figurines and animals that you had pretend with? What happened to fostering children's imaginations... without "fake" kids?
I love technology as much as the next person, but there are times we're all much better off without it. And I'm always reminded of that whenever I hang out with him.
Your grandparents sound WONDERFUL. You'll be able to keep them alive... just by thinking of the ways they taught you to be a better person, and probably even a good parent. And someday, when he's older, you can even tell him where/how/why you learned certain things.
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