Grandparents: Purpose

By j.i.m. lord

Grandparents, the last line of defense. When we adopted the grandkids, they were 7, 3, and 1.. They are now 11, 8, and 5. Two boys and a girl. Add to the household an 18 year old daughter, plus an 80 year old
great-grandmother, and what do you get?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483516851

j.i.m. lord

J.I.M. Lord is the father of three and grandfather of three, of which the three grandkids have been adopted by Jim and his wife Emily after the death of their daughter. Jim & family live in Oklahoma and are on a first-name-basis with the ins and outs of food stamps, WIC, government housing, and the struggles to make ends meet by frequenting garage sales and re-selling those "gems" on Ebay...thus the lead character's name in "Finding My Way Back Home:"  JOBE!  Look for Jim's novels "Grandparents: Purpose" & "Grandparents: It Don't Come Easy" , memoirs of life in the "starting over" lane of parenting grandkids!

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