Last night just before midnight my daughter working in Africa called.  She’s the only one who ever calls me at that hour, fortunately for me.

Where she is  email is unreliable.  I actually do better keeping up with her on Facebook, so when she makes a post I get to see it along with all her other friends.

But for news, she usually calls me.  Or if she needs me to do something for her.  And then I get to relay the info to her grandmother (my mother).  It’s like a short phone tree.

This is a determined, beautiful young lady who has worked hard and long to get where she is – the post doc position in Nigeria is a stepping-stone for the next place in her life, which is to be back in the city where she has done all her graduate work, except for the research in Israel for her thesis.

She was offered a great position and she’s going to take it.  She’ll still get to travel internationally, which is something she’s a real pro at doing.  Maybe she and Mom and I can go on another trip together.  The ones to Africa and Galapagos were fantastic.  And she and I went to the Chilean Fjords for her PhD present, also awesome.

Maybe she’ll meet a nice fellow up to her standards and I’ll finally get to be a grandma.

Isn’t that why we raise kids in the first place?  To be able to play with the grandkids and then give them back?  That sounds like the best of both worlds to me.

Hoping you have good news for Independence Day yourself -

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer

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