{"id":303603,"date":"2015-08-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/grandparent-connection\/"},"modified":"2015-08-05T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:00:00","slug":"grandparent-connection","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/grandparent-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandparent Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Larmoyeux and Nancy Downing, grandparents themselves, have some practical ideas to help you stay connected with your grandkids.  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Even if you live far away.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2015-08-05.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It was some time ago that grandmothers, Mary Larmoyeux and Nancy Downing, started jotting down ideas\u2014ways that they could, as grandparents, stay more connected with their grandchildren. Mary Larmoyeux explains why. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Well, I think it was just a desire to be intentional with our grandkids, realizing that that\u2019s the next generation. One day, we\u2019re going to be gone; and we hope that they\u2019ll remember some of those sweet times with us just like we did with our grandparents. If we can just be intentional, then we can invest in their lives and invest in them, spiritually, too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, August 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll talk today about some very practical ways you can connect with your grandchildren, whether they live nearby or they live far away. Stay tuned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. This is ought to be about as easy as it gets; you know?\u00a0 Get a couple of grandmothers in here and say, \u201cYou want to talk about being a grandmother?\u201d I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll have to ask any questions after that\u2014I think they\u2019ll just go for it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And we\u2019ve got a couple of grandfathers in here. You just had a brand-new grandson\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s true!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014and you couldn\u2019t remember his name. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It slipped my mind for just a second, but Katie\u2014trust me, I remember Cedric. It just took a second for it to come back. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Just a second. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Just a second\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Maybe\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014or two. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014thirty or forty-five.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It was 30 in all!\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 Stop it!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, I want to welcome Nancy Downing and Mary Larmoyeux to the broadcast. Mary, Nancy, welcome. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Thank you. <br><br><strong>Nancy: <\/strong>Thank you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Nancy has three grown children \/ one grandchild. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMary has two grown children and seven\u2014count them\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014seven grandchildren. Together, they have collaborated and come up with a book called <em>The Grandparent Connection: 365 Ways to Connect with Your Grandchild\u2019s Heart<\/em>. I\u2019m just going to start off by asking all of us real quickly this question: \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite memory with your grandparents?\u201d\u00a0 And if you can\u2019t think of your favorite\u2014because Bob has to review all of them in sequence\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014that\u2019s going to take too long for\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Prioritize, yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014the broadcast for him to do that. What\u2019s just a favorite memory?\u00a0 I\u2019ll start off. I remember making homemade ice cream on some concrete steps in a little shack that was representative of family that was dirt poor where O.T. and Bertha Ray lived. They\u2019d been married for over 50 years, and I was back there with a hand-crank\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I was going to say\u2014it had to be hand-cranked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014hand-crank, a tow sack over the top. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe made ice cream, and we made friends. Grandpa did it, I did it, and my uncles did it. It was\u2014it just was a sweet, sweet memory. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob: <\/strong>My grandparents, Grandma and Grandpa Cross, used to come every year for Christmas to our house. They would drive from Flint, Michigan, to St. Louis for Christmas. They would bring a trunk full of Vernors Ginger Ale, which we couldn\u2019t get in St. Louis\u2014so, they were crossing state lines with Vernors Ginger Ale. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, sometime, when Grandma was there, she\u2019d spend the night with me, sleeping in bed with me. I just remember I didn\u2019t realize, until I got to be older, that that was a sacrifice for her. [Laughter] I thought she thought that would be as much fun as me!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Squirmy grandkids. What about you, Nancy\u2014your favorite memory?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>Both of my grand\u2014sets of grandparents lived out of state. So, one that I remember about my Grandmother Mack was\u2014they lived in Wisconsin\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014was that she would make, at Christmastime, all sorts of Christmas cookies and decorate them up just unbelievably. Then, she would get a coat box, and she would send <em>all<\/em> of the awesome-decorated cookies to us. Then, we\u2014in my family, there were all girls\u2014there were four girls. She would, also, send us a doll and all the doll clothes that she had made for them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>So, that was <em>always <\/em>awesome. My other grandparents\u2014they were a lot older. I just always remember my grandfather\u2014I just remember him being so much shorter than my grandmother. After dinner, we would always walk around the block. It was just so sweet and tender how he would just walk with me around the block, and we would just look at everything that God had created. That\u2019s what made it so neat. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe would just talk about whatever he wanted to talk about or whatever I wanted to talk about. And I would always go there for two weeks in the summer to visit them. To this day, I still think about that. I remember, one time, even going to visit in the town where he was just so\u2014in the town where they used to live\u2014so I could ride around in the car around the block. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Oh, yes\u2014kind of retrace the steps. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>Yes. It\u2019s just such a warm feeling. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So, who did you get the teaching gene from?\u00a0 You\u2019re a school teacher and won the 1999 Teacher of the Year for <em>USA Today<\/em>. Where did you get that gene?\u00a0 Which set of grandparents did you get that from?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Nancy: <\/strong>It would be the ones that live in Wisconsin--Grandfather Mack because he was a teacher and also a coach. He also made games for Milton Bradley<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Oh, really?!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>I know\u2014isn\u2019t that awesome?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s very cool. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So, Mary, what about you?\u00a0 What\u2019s your favorite memory?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Well, I actually remember my grandmother, Nana. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe spent a lot of time with her. One of my favorite things was making houses out of cardboard. She\u2019s give us big Sears<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> catalogues\u2014we\u2019d pull them out\u2014cut out furniture\u2014and we\u2019d make doll houses, and dolls, and everything. I just remember that being a whole lot of fun. And she was always there\u2014it seemed like Nana was always available. My mother\u2019s parents died when I was very, very young\u2014so I never knew them\u2014but I spent a lot of time with Nana and had a wonderful relationship with her. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, Nana did a good job of training you because you have been building houses, here at FamilyLife, for almost 25 years. Mary was my administrative assistant for a number of years. She survived that and moved on to work for Bob. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Mary: <\/strong>And that was a lot of fun! That was a lot of fun, Dennis. We\u2019ve got some fun memories. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We do have some fun memories\u2014no doubt about it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat moved you ladies to write this book?\u00a0 I mean, it\u2019s very simple\u2014you are basically providing a memory a day or something to do with a grandchild for each of the 365 days. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Well, I think it was just a desire to be intentional with our grandkids, realizing that that\u2019s the next generation, and just thinking: \u201cIf we can just be intentional, then we can invest in their lives. One day, we\u2019re going to be gone; and we hope that they\u2019ll remember some of those sweet times with us, just like we did with our grandparents. And then, Nancy and I were also interested in the spiritual legacy because we wanted to invest in them, spiritually, too. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>For <em>me<\/em>, because my parents lived out of state, it was difficult for me to have the kind of relationship that I saw some of my friends have with their grandparents. So, for <em>me<\/em>, I wanted to be able to give grandparents that live far away from their grandchildren\u2014or even two hours away from their grandchildren\u2014to be able to still have a heart-to-heart communication with them and to grow in the Lord with them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just felt like I really didn\u2019t get that, and I want to be that kind of grandparent; but I want to also share ideas that Mary and I have to help people that want to do that too. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Did the two of you just\u2014were you out, having coffee together, and you just said: \u201cI want to do this,\u201d\u2014\u201cNo! I want to do this\u201d?\u00a0 How did this all happen?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Well, actually, I had this little website blog. Nancy would put these posts on it about different things with teaching kids. You can still go online and find all sorts of things that she has about different problems kids might have in school and just different ideas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe and I were brainstorming one time and thought, \u201cHey, it\u2019d be kind of cool to have a little book about ideas for grandparents.\u201d\u00a0 And we are busy\u2014we\u2019re both working. We thought a lot of grandparents today are like us\u2014they are working, they are busy, and yet, they want to connect with their grandkids. For us, we just thought, \u201cWell, what would we like?\u201d\u00a0 And we thought, \u201cWell, something that we can use as a reference book\u2014maybe by month\u2014because we forget ideas.\u201d\u00a0 So, we can just go to \u201cFebruary,\u201d when it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf we wonder what we can do, we just turn to \u201cFebruary\u201d; and there\u2019ll be some idea there. So, we just sort of brainstormed and came up with some ideas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You came up with a lot of ideas\u2014365 of them. And I\u2019m guessing you haven\u2019t had a chance to test every one of these so far. Some of these are untested ideas; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>Well, my grandson is only four. So, a lot of them are untested; but as I go through the book and see, there are a lot more things that I have done than I really thought that I was going to be able to do because you can make a lot of things age-appropriate that are in here. One thing\u2014when I go visit my grandson, I\u2019ve taken one of the books and put it on the nightstand next to my bed. So, if I think, \u201cI\u2019d like to think of something that we can do, maybe, tomorrow\u201d; or I wonder what else I could maybe add to \/ or be more creative to add onto an idea that we had done\u2014so, that\u2019s been a lot of fun doing that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There is one activity that is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014it\u2019s different every month, but you start the month with the same focus every month of the year. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Right. What you are talking about is the spiritual activity where we have a Bible verse and just kind of put something in a rhyme or in a way where a child could easily memorize Scripture. Our grandkids were little then. When we lived in a different house\u2014and I actually did a lot of those with them\u2014like going up the stairs, saying different words\u2014doing things like that with them. Since then, we have moved. We\u2019re an hour away from our closest grandchild, and some other grandkids have moved out-of-state. So, the little ones that I would do that with, right now, are actually not\u2014they don\u2019t live near me\u2014but it\u2019s a fun thing to do. When kids have fun with Scripture, then, it goes in their hearts. Hopefully, it\u2019s something they\u2019ll remember for their whole lifetimes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, you were talking about going upstairs and saying different words. Explain what that was all about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Each month has the Bible verse, and then, it has different ways that you can teach things to the kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay; let\u2019s start with this one. It looks like the first of August\u2014and it\u2019s kind of back to school\u2014so, you get a backpack out, load it up with some canned goods \/ some beans and peas\u2014make sure it\u2019s plenty heavy. Explain what you want to do with your grandchild, Mary. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>Well, what you want to do is\u2014you are walking around. They have this heavy backpack, and they don\u2019t know why, in the world, it\u2019s loaded with these things. Of course, you can just have fun with it. You can say, \u201cHow much can you carry?\u201d and keep loading it. A kid will say, \u201cOh, I\u2019ll take more, more, more.\u201d\u00a0 Then, as you walk around, it\u2019s really heavy. Then, you can take the things off and say, \u201cHey, you don\u2019t have to carry this.\u201d\u00a0 You can pick up the child\u2014if it\u2019s a little child\u2014and say, \u201cI\u2019ll carry you,\u201d and that would be like Christ carrying you. You can take the items out the backpack and talk about how your burdens and your cares in life\u2014how we don\u2019t have to carry them\u2014how Christ wants to carry them for us. So, there are a lot of fun things you can do with your grandkids that have a spiritual connection. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And perhaps, ask them the question, at that point\u2014\u201cWhat\u2019s a burden you have today that you need to take out of your backpack?\u201d\u00a0 And then, let them think long enough to get a can, take it out, set it on the counter, and name what the burden is\u2014the worry \/ the concern\u2014that they have. And teach them about prayer because this is how it needs to be happening, day in and day out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, that\u2019s something you can do if your grandchild lives around the corner. But you were talking, Nancy, about the fact that all your grandkids are out of town. How would you do something like that, or how would you apply something like that if you were with a child who didn\u2019t live nearby?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>I almost think that I would go ahead and have them get a backpack so that they were visually doing it themselves. Then, you could FaceTime<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> and do it that way \/ I mean, you could Skype<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u2014so that with all the technology that there is nowadays\u2014even though you live far away, you can still visually see someone. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, that makes it really nice. I think you could pretty much do the exact same thing\u2014you\u2019re just going to not be where you could touch the person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And I think with all the electronics we have and ways we have to stay connected, the distance issue for us, as grandparents, really shouldn\u2019t be as big of an issue as we let it become. I know we have grandkids in Nashville, Indianapolis, Russellville, Arkansas, and then, two sets of grandkids on the Front Range in Colorado, near Denver. That distance can seem ominous, but a book like this can kind of kick-start you with some ideas. Then, you can start thinking about: \u201cHow can I start using Skype or my smartphone to communicate with our kids, and to interact with them, and maybe target one of them or the entire crew?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>Something that I think is awesome, too, is that nowadays things don\u2019t have to be expensive to be able to get close to your grandchildren. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know some of the older generation\u2014and I am not going to be in there\u2014[Laughter] \u2014some of the older generation may be on a strict budget. So, they are not going to be able\u2014they think, \u201cOh, this is going to be too expensive to do that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut you can do something as simple as getting a gift certificate to go get pizza or to go to McDonald\u2019s<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> and <em>send<\/em> it to the grandchildren\u2014and then, say: \u201cOkay, on Friday night at six o\u2019clock, you go to McDonald\u2019s close to your house. I\u2019m going to go to the McDonald\u2019s close to <em>my<\/em> house. We can eat dinner <em>together<\/em>, and we can text each other\u2014which I know it\u2019s not polite to do that at the dinner table, but this will be an activity\u2014so, it will be excused.\u201d\u00a0 You could do that. I don\u2019t know whether you would have FaceTime there or not\u2014I don\u2019t think that you would\u2014but then, that way, you are still communicating and it\u2019s exciting. You could take a picture of what <em>you <\/em>ordered. They can take a picture and send you what <em>they<\/em> ordered. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, you all can text what\u2014\u201cWhat are you going to have for dessert?\u201d\u00a0 That way, you\u2019re sharing a meal; but you\u2019re not sharing a meal where you can touch each other. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And what I\u2019d encourage people to do is to find something unique you can do with your grandkids and try to repeat it. As I think about the ice cream\u2014homemade ice cream\u2014that I did with Grandpa Ray and Grandma Ray, it was that we did that probably 50 times. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Maybe, 100 times. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It was Vernors Ginger Ale <em>every<\/em> Christmas for me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>There you go. And so, one of the things I\u2019ve done is\u2014when Barbara and I arrive at the grandkids\u2019 house or they arrive here, mysteriously in the yard, there is an invasion of gummy worms. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, wait!\u2014on the grass?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>On the grass. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You\u2019re putting gummy worms on the dirt\u2014on the grass?!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Oh\u2014oh, absolutely. Give them a bowl and say: \u201cWait! Did you hear it?\u00a0 They are marching. They are coming out of the forest.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd here is the deal about gummy worms\u2014there are gummy bears\u2014\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014there are gummy goldfish. You go looking in the store, and you don\u2019t have to spend premium dollar for this. For two bucks, you can get a lot of entertainment and a sugar high for your grandkids. [Laughter] That is a whole lot of fun!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And you\u2019re okay with\u2014Mom\u2019s okay with these being out in the dirt?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>It doesn\u2019t matter. [Laughter]\u00a0 That\u2019s a part of being a grandfather; you know? [Laughter] It really is. And the other day, I went to Denver\u2014and Barbara and I went. We took the twins, Lilly and Piper; and we went to Sweet Cow Ice Cream. I met the owner of Sweet Cow and told him he had a good product; and it drew me all the way from Arkansas to take my grandkids there. Find those unique things you can do; and then, begin to call them out as you talk to your grandkids on the phone, Skype with them, or go visit them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>One of our favorite things that we like to do is\u2014we have a little bear\u2014we call it the Love Bear. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou give it to someone to let them know you love them \/ you\u2019re thinking of them. The grandkids have had a lot of fun with that because, when they come visit, we might put it under a pillow, where they are sleeping\u2014then, they get to hide it for the next person. We\u2019ve mailed it before. We\u2019ve gone out of town before\u2014one of our kids, when he was graduating\u2014one of <em>his<\/em> kids brought the little Love Bear. We found it outside our hotel room\u2014that was really fun\u2014she had stuck it on the door. So, it\u2019s just one little Love Bear that you have, and you just past it around. It\u2019s a lot of fun. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>One thing that my grandson and I do is make smoothies. It started when he was real sick one time. So, we got all of the ingredients together\u2014and got the yogurt, and the frozen fruit, and the fresh fruit, and the juice, and put it all in the blender. He would help me make it. So, now, it is tradition\u2014that whenever I go there or he comes to my house\u2014that we make a smoothie.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTwo things\u2014one is that he says, now\u2014we are definitely, when he gets older, opening up a smoothie shop. [Laughter]\u00a0 The second thing I thought was so sweet was one of Mary\u2019s and my friend had surgery. Whenever Heath is in town, she will come over and visit; and she spends holidays with us too\u2014her family does. Anyway, he said, \u201cWe need to make a smoothie for Nancy.\u201d So, we did. He said, \u201cCall her up.\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cI don\u2019t have to call her. I know her favorite kind that we get whenever we go get smoothies.\u201d\u00a0 So, we tried to duplicate that. That was <em>so touching<\/em> that he used what he and I did together to go and give that to her to spread that kindness. I thought that was neat. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnother thing, too, that was awesome about\u2014that you said about tradition was my family used to make gingerbread houses. Every other year, my kids and I would go and visit my mother in Oklahoma. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe would have\u2014we would have all the grandchildren in the garage. We would make gingerbread houses. She would have cooked gingerbread houses for each grandchild. Then, each one would have frosting, and candy, and everything like that, and decorate it. Well, now, my children loved doing that. Now, I am passing that on to my grandson. So, each year at Christmas, he and I have made a gingerbread house. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know, between McDonald\u2019s, the gummy bears, the smoothies, and the gingerbread houses\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And the Sweet Cow. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014I\u2019m getting hungry. [Laughter] It sounds like grandparenting is all about eating with your grandkids. [Laughter]\u00a0 But there is something about fun meals \/ fun activities\u2014around lunch \/ around dinner\u2014around a special getaway. It\u2019s just a part of how grandparenting\u2014you brought up ice cream at the beginning, and I brought up Vernors Ginger Ale. So\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014there\u2019s something in the memory bank about that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>There is. We took four of our granddaughters out to eat because we\u2019d been entrusted with them for the evening for our son, Ben, and Marsha Kay. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe just played a game, and I wish I\u2019d written these questions down because just spontaneously I began to ask them: \u201cSo, what\u2019s your favorite color?\u201d\u00a0 And they\u2019d go around the group\u2014all four of those girls would answer it. \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite meal?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite dessert?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite song?\u201d\u00a0 And on we\u2019d go. I mean, we stayed there for over an hour with a five-year-old, a seven-, a nine-, and a ten-year-old and totally enjoyed a Chick-fil-A<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> meal and had a great time with them just finding out what they liked. And they got into it big time. So, you can play these games and spark other conversations in the midst of just having a good time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>Exactly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It is great, as a grandparent, to have something like what you ladies have put together in <em>The Grandparent Connection<\/em> because we may not wake up and have a fresh, new, great, creative idea just rolling off the top of our heads. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0You give us a jumpstart, and people are going to\u2014they are going to read this and go, \u201cI\u2019m not going to do it exactly <em>that <\/em>way, but I\u2019ll do it <em>this<\/em> way,\u201d and they are going to make it their own. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Nancy: <\/strong>That\u2019s exactly what we wanted to happen. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Mary: <\/strong>We\u2019re helping people just put their creative touch onto it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, you guys make it very easy. Our listeners can go to our website, which is FamilyLifeToday.com, and click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d\u00a0 They can find a copy of your book, <em>The Grandparent Connection: 365 Ways to Connect with Your Grandchild\u2019s Heart<\/em>. Again, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER,\u201d and look for the book by Nancy Downing and Mary Larmoyeux, <em>The Grandparent Connection<\/em>. Or call if you\u2019d like to order the book at 1-800-358-6329. That\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then, the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, I think about this conversation, Dennis, and I think this is at the heart of what we seek to do on this daily radio program and through the resources we provide on our website \/ at our events. We are trying to equip moms and dads, husbands and wives, grandmothers, grandparents\u2014trying to equip folks with practical biblical ways that you can build stronger, healthier, more vibrant relationships in your marriage \/ in your family\u2014ultimately, relationships that are going to glorify God and help you live life according to His design for how life is meant to be lived. Our goal is to effectively develop godly marriages and families because we believe that those godly marriages and families can change the world, one home at a time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we\u2019re grateful for those of you who share that conviction with us, and you express your support as you make donations in support of this ministry. We are listener-supported. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, hearing from you is how we can cover the cost of producing and syndicating this daily radio program, along with the resources we develop, our website, and all the rest that we are doing. You make that possible when you support the ministry. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd if you can help us with a donation today, we\u2019d like to express our thanks by sending you a copy of a book by Dennis and Barbara Rainey about praying together as a couple. 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