Becoming A Grand Father

Seldom does a grandfather-to-be has the mindset or energy
to sit down and write to the grandchild to-be-born a series of
letters telling him/her what impressions he was having while the
pregnancy was evolving. Many feel that this is more the area of
experience of the father-to-be when he is waiting for the arrival
of his first son.
Yet, the experience of becoming a grandfather is sufficiently
different that it merits to capture the feelings and emotions that
I would experience before my grandchild was to arrive. The
writing exercise revived some of the feelings and emotions that
I experienced when my first-born child was in my wife’s womb.
Yet, there was a difference. The life experience acquired from
more than thirty years since my first son was born has given
me a more mature perspective on life that I thought it would be
appropriate to share it with my grandchild to be born. That life
experience has impregnated my vision with a richer frame of
reference because there are many lessons learned that I judged I
should include in this reflection of becoming a grandfather.
Since I was living outside the US, I was forced to follow
the pregnancy from a distance, thus limiting the time I could
dedicate to writing a diary of the impressions I experienced of
those pregnancy months. Because of this, my impressions and
number of letters were reduced, so I judged to be befitting that I
prolonged the dairy to cover the first two years of development of
the grandchild. This would give me a longer period of follow-up
time as well as giving my wife and I several opportunities to be
with the grandchild and experience firsthand the impressions of
his/her growth process. This growth phase is marvelous in every
child as he/she begins to develop the basic abilities of survival. It
is a wonderful process of learning that never ceases to be a magical
moment of their existence. Capturing it will be my testament