Taking in a Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa, Ont.
Today’s Postcard from Bunchland comes from kriscip in Thunder Bay, Ont.
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Old School Still Cool
Cynthia Kinnunen blogs about sharing stuff from your childhood with your kids
Family is pretty important to us. Even though most of our extended family is far away, we make extra efforts to keep in touch. This is particularly important when it comes to grandparents.
Grandparents (and great-grandparents and beyond) are the “old school” messengers of familial goodness. For us, it’s not just the wisdom and perspective they can share, it’s the stories and the connections to a disappearing past. Heck, it’s the cool and wonderful quirks we discover in those stories, too. Our grandparents were hilarious and silly and creative and fascinating! Who knew?
As a kid, I loved spending time with my grandparents. Like, really loved it. I was fortunate to have them around and that they, too, enjoyed having me around. Looking back, I have a strange mix of things that stand out in my memories of them.
