I am a Father and a Grandfather

I am a father.  Though I may not always look or sound like I worry about my children and I do not always appear to be concerned for them, I do and I am.  That’s what fathers do.  I may not show my worry and concern for my children like mothers do, but that is O.K.  My “job description” as a father reads a little differently than that of a mother.

I am a father of adult children.  Though they have left home and are all on their own, I continue worry about them and I continue my concern for them.  I’m not real good at the day-to-day events of life, but I’ve been known to travel from one end of the country to the other to be there for the other events of life.

I’m a grandfather of small grandchildren and adult grandchildren.  Though I may not always look or sound like I worry about them nor does my concern always show for them, it is there.  They are children of my children and I love them.

Sometimes I lay awake at night for my children and my grandchildren.  There isn’t much more I can actually do for them when I’m 2,000 miles away from them.  But then, I’m not sure what I could do for them if I lived next door.  So I can lay awake at night and worry and be concerned. 

Most of the time when the phone rings it is for their mother.  I’m O.K. with that because once in a while it is for me and I would gladly travel from one end of the country to the other end if I needed to make that trip.  But generally when the phone rings for me it is simply because somebody wants to talk to Dad or Grandpa “this time”.  I like that.

I am a father and a grandfather, and though I may not always look or sound like I worry about them and I do not always appear to be concerned for them, I do and I am.