Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My husband and I went over yesterday afternoon to our daughter's house to watch the two grandsons splash in the kiddie pool. The younger kept getting shivery and needing to be wrapped in a towel, but the older was generating enough heat to keep him comfy. When they got inside they began getting on each other's nerves. So they were getting on our nerves as well. There was a lot of separating them from each other, interventions to avoid hitting and biting. Finally dinner came and they settled into their version of eating/not eating. I'd brought brownies over but neither child met the minimum requirements for dessert, so we quickly left them to their parents and bedtime rituals. We get exhausted just being the grandparents. My sympathy goes out to the parents, but I guess they are younger and much more energetic. I can no longer remember ever having that much energy. But I must have - I raised four kids, right?! It makes me exhausted to think about it!