Grandparenting, Year One

And what a fabulous year it has been.  While Our son and DIL do not live very near, they arte also not too far away, and they have been far more adventurous about traveling with their young daughter than we were at that same point in life.  If you wanted to see out first child, you really had to arrive on site, or you were SOL.  So long story short, we have seen our grandchild quite a bit this year, and it has been so much fun.
I know. People say that.  We were not amongst the convinced before it happened to us, but in retrospect, we completely missed the boat on how fabulous this was going to be.  Through this that and the other thing, we were there the day she was born, and while it could have been an incredible pain to have us there, we were graced with the good luck to be able to be useful, not in the way in the least, and to meet her on her very first day of life.  We find her endlessly fascinating and cannot wait to see what year two will hold.