I have another problem with a television commercial….Imagine that. This time it is Xfinity by Comcast. You know the one…where the son drives up with his kids and he apologizes….HE APOLOGIZES…let that sink if for a minute…

Calmly now..he apologizes to his kids for dropping them off with their Grandmother. Telling his kids that he is sorry, and that he knows “Grandma’s isn’t the most exciting place to be.”

I want to slap the crap out of that guy.

I grew up around my paternal grandparents.  Actually, my Grandmother and my Step-Grandfather as my Father’s Father died way before I was born.  So I grew up knowing Earl Morehouse as my Grandfather.  Easy peasy….

Earl, and Vida lived on a farm just outside of Keeler.  If Keeler itself couldn’t get more bucolic, toss an actual farm into the mix.  Amazing.  I loved that farm and really didn’t get to spend as much time on it as I would have liked.  There seemed to be so much more that had to be explored.  More crannies in the barn, corners and secret places in the farmhouse.  More time listening to Grandpa play his violin, or his accordion.  More time playing dominos, and talking about what it was like growing up on a farm in the early part of the 20th century.

They were never boring.  The one regret I have in this life is that my kids never knew my parents.  I was always too far away from them to travel back.  I was the kid in the song “Cat’s in the Cradle.”  Something was always more important going on other than making sure Grandma and Grandpa Dodd got to tell my kids all of the embarrassing stories of my growing up.  There was no sitting around going through the box of pictures that my mom kept under the bed.  No having my Mother teach them how to play 3-, or 4-handed solitaire.  And then not letting them win, because that wasn’t the way you did things.  Or maybe she would have let them win…..Grandparents seem to  have a different way with their grandchildren than what they had with their own children.

But Grandparents are never boring.  They are a bridge that your kids should have to blessing of walking over.  Every child out there needs to know the people they came from.  That link beyond their parents.

Grandparents are never boring.  Man, the commercial pisses me off.