Thread:Shlopsky/@comment-29709319-20171224152429/@comment-29739768-20171228113623

I do have 2 older grandsons however I was never allowed to be very much a part of their lives from their births so don't know them and vise versa. After my son and their mother separated 9 years ago I've seen them maybe 1/2 dozen times for very brief times. That's often what happens to grandparents when adult children divorce. Grandparents have no legal rights to their grandchildren, at least in most parts of Canada and the USA. They are both young men now and because their mother never allowed them to be a part of my life, they don't know me therefore the grandson we have here is very special. He's 13 and loves being with us. I always tell him he is God's gift to Grandma because Grandma wanted a grandchild and I got him! He was with us 9 weeks last summer and we had a wonderful summer with him.

I love being able to spend our winters in FL, out of the snow. We bought this place in 2009 and have enjoyed every winter here. We both know it is just a season in our life and there will come a time when we can no longer travel to FL and then we will spend the winters in the snow like all the other folks from the north who aren't snowbirds. Until then we will enjoy the warmth here in the winter. We come down the 1st of November and leave for the north early in April, so are here for 5 -51/2 months depending on the weather up North.