Like many older people who find themselves on the phone with children of unstable attention spans, Arty began to talk non-stop, flinging at his granddaughter every expression of pride and love, interspersed with questions intended not to sate a genuine curiosity but to confirm Meredith's continued presence on the other end of the line.
"A blessing on so many levels" for the family: they save money, and her parents love seeing their granddaughter every day.
The grandmother, it was clear, had been waiting every day for her granddaughter to come back.
In support of my daughters, my granddaughter and every other woman who is not even born yet.
And for the three years since, every Friday around dinnertime our granddaughter gets out of whatever car is delivering her, runs into our house, and starts playing with the toys she left the previous Monday morning.
"To pointedly choose pink frilly things when every time you see your granddaughter she is dressed in a gender-neutral way she likes, to me, means that Grandma's making a statement with her gifts," writes Caroline.
"He knows where every rock is," said Ashley Mattioli, a granddaughter.
Granddaughter and grandmother spent every day together — until they didn't.
Every year, she said, she takes her granddaughter, who turned 4 on Thursday, to Coney Island for her birthday.
Every evening they came to visit their granddaughter, and now they sat on a bench and watched as she swooped like a bird through the lengthening shadows.
Olga N. Zaitsova, 55, who was in the Mega Belaya Dacha mall with her granddaughter Anastasia, said she came every weekend, drawn by the warm play area for toddlers.
