westervillemom

In My Own Words

My husband and I are an older couple who adopted our Grandson who is now 8 1/2. Our son has been with us since birth and we adopted him at age 5. He knows no other home than ours. He sees his mother but not every day or even every week, but probably once a month. He has a half sister now, so we babysit occasionally as she is 2 now. His mother is doing ok compared to how she was doing when he was born, but we will continue to raise our son as this is the life he knows. Of course we have not entered into the adult types of discussion with him regarding his adoption (dirty details as to why his father is not in his life and why his Mom was not capable of raising him). Our son attends a great school, is currently involved in Scouts and loves some sports. His reading skills are not the best but his science and math skills are great. He loves to hearn and is very attentive about science, nature and how things work and evolve. He is very much an outdoor kid, not too involved in the Wii and the video games, but he does play them and tries to be as proficient as the next guy. My favorite parenting memory with him was when I was helping him with Math and explaining borrowing and carrying. It was the BEST MOMENT...I actually saw the infamous LIGHT BULB go off and the expression on his face was, well...priceless. Wow, I do not ever remember seeing that with my grown children when they were this age. Perhaps, this time, MY EYES were open?????

Parents I'd Like to Meet

Older couples or one parent raising, or that have adopted Granschildren but NOT martyrs or complainers. We want to interact with couples or single parents closer to our ages (60-me, 70-my husband) or at least closer than the average 30-35 year olds we see now. Some of the parents we are finding at his school are a bit older, a few that are closer to 45-48. I want to find couples or single parents that are involved in the school activities and PTA. I work as much as possible as I am an independent contractor and my husband is retired but works at his old company parttime for added income.