Weekends with Grandkids

     Uncle Warner shows up and the kids have
     another to play with them.

There is no better way to spend a weekend than with grandkids at hand, under foot and asking for favors.
by Charlie Leck

There are several topics of a rather erudite nature about which I had planned to write this morning; however, there are grandchildren in the house this morning – all four of them – and my usual quiet time is joyously supplanted by the sound of children’s voices: “Grandpa, can we have some Lucky Charms? Grandpa, are these strawberries for us?”

It’s a magical, wonderful sound and it makes me dig deep so I can move more quickly up and down the stairways and across the length of the house.

I was going to write a blog this morning called: Cared for by Angels! It would have been about the various wildernesses we face in life, much as Christ did himself. Boring! Grandkids are ever so much more fun.

Right now, the children are playing with the four dogs, chasing them across the hardwood floors, sliding this way and that. The laughing and screaming is intense, like a cacophony from a major orchestra (and it will get marvelous reviews for its beauty and depth).

Tomorrow the house will go quiet and get boring; then I shall write again of meaty matters.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

The grandkids, growing up so quickly, send email photographs to grandpa and
grandma, keeping us up-to-date. This is one from early this autumn.

Thanks to Thee from Whom all blessings flow.
by Charlie Leck

It’s early in the morning on the day before Thanksgiving and it’s cold in Minnesota. I awoke this morning with a great sense of anticipation. A couple of the grandkids arrive today.

The weather report, very Minnesota-like, isn’t too chummy! Drizzle will arrive this morning and then temperatures will drop, making it a freezing rain that will eventually turn to snow. A driver’s nightmare, you know – snow on top of ice!

The grandkids, their mom and dad, and their dog, Lucy, are making their way up here from the east, driving northwest across Wisconsin. They spent the night in one of those Wisconsin Dells water-park hotels last night. They’ll drive, I hope, ever so carefully.

We’ve a big weekend planned, so my blog will likely be unattended for the holiday weekend (unless I post a few photographs of the family activities). Dinner for tomorrow is moving along nicely. All the shopping is done. The turkey is in the refrigerator and so is a leg of lamb and a wonderful looking salmon that is curing and almost ready to be sliced paper-thinly as lox. A couple of the kids will be missing, but 66.6666 percent isn’t bad.

No offense to our children, but it’s the grandkids I get excited to see. It’s so much fun to see how they grow and change over several months. Photographs that arrived by email this late summer and early autumn showed such growth and change. Oh, my!

From our Minnesota home to you, wherever you are reading, is sent this wish that you will have a very blessed Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving! Be grateful, but never be satisfied. Our world is in need of so much more care and love.

And to the Great Force that gives us life and all the blessings that come with it, I am humbly grateful and ask only for the time to watch these grandchildren become adults; but, but – don’t get me wrong – Thine own will be done, of course!

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Quiet on the Home Front

This is Rowan. He celebrated his 5th birthday with us here in Minnesota.

The Grandkids have come and gone and, now, all is quiet on the home front!

by Charlie Leck

It was a wonderful week. The grandkids were here -- all four of them -- along with their parents. Five of our six children were here for a time over the long weekend. It was very pleasant to see them all -- along with our sons-in-law, too.

Tomorrow I can get back to some serious blogging. For now, I'll just give you a little photographic look at the exhausting weekend.

Daphne, Anna, Rowan and Caroline are ready for the fireworks show!


Anna at the Maple Maze at the Maple Grove Community Center

Sweet Caroline!

Rowan and his mom tackle the candles on the Spider Man cake!

Jim Deiters stands between Jenny (left) and Erika (right) along with the four grandkids.

David, with his two children, Rowan and Daphne at Underworld World at the Mall of America


Cousin Gretchen with Lisa and Jenny at Lisa's birthdy party


Daphne right after eating a chocolate-cream cheese cupcake!

Grandma reading to Daphne -- looking at pictures actually

Daphne at the end of the day!