NaBloPoMo

The photograph below was taken 15 years ago.   My grandsons always wanted attention at the same time so the easiest thing to do was to pick them up – one on each hip!  Not the most sensible thing to do if you want to preserve your back well into old-age!   However, I have survived.  I studied this photograph and saw their personalities portrayed so clearly in it.  Jay, the mischievous one, always full of smiles.  Josh, equally as mischievous but somewhat more serious.   And Grandma – looking fractured!

My expression, I think, says it all!t

Today we had fun trying to recapture that moment, 15 years on!   Oh my how we laughed.  They wanted to climb back on my hips! Their personalities are still the same!  Jay joked and teased while Josh tried to get the pose just right!

How handsome they’ve become!

Jay will matriculate in June next year and Josh in December.   I won’t say where has the time gone, because I know  – it’s been 17 years of battles, fun, laughter, excitement and not a moment of boredom.   We have not been the normal spoiling grandparents but co-parents with their mom and now that they’re almost adults we can look back and say – It was all worth it!