Your grandparents

What are/were your grandparents like? Do you (or did you) enjoy spending time with them?

My grandparents are awesome, still very hardworking after all these years.

Both my grandfathers died without me ever seeing them. One grandmother is a total nightmare and the other is the kind ever family should have.

I've gotten to know my grandmother more over the years, as she's aged and become more dependant on me for help with everyday life. She's 87 now, and is very limited on what she can do, since she uses a walker and has leg braces from having had polio as a child.

Simple things like giving her a ride to the doctor's, or stopping over to change the sheets on her bed are things she can't do for herself anymore. I even spent a couple of weeks this past September, painting her apartment for her. Gram has always been a little of the mindset that if you want to wait on her, she won't mind at all, so I do the big things she can't handle, but try to have her help with things I know she can do, like sorting through her books to get rid of ones she's already read so they don't accumulate too much, or sort through old paperwork that she tends to also accumulate.

Overall, Gram is pretty sharp still for 87, but I feel I need to check on her weekly, though.

My (maternal) grandparents are my heart. I can't wait to see them at Xmas time. They are both in their 80's, they still drive everywhere and have all their faculties and are great to be around.

Never knew them, not a one. They were all in Europe, and all but one were dead by the time I was born.

Would have liked to know my paternal grandfather; the rest, don't miss what I didn't have.

Eh. I can take my mothers mother in moderate dosages, but really didn't have that much of a connection with my fathers parents.

My paternal grandmother I really don't care for, my maternal grandmother passed, I don't know my real grandfathers and my step grandfather calls me from time to time, but I've never been close to him.