A kickoff puts the ball into play, and this issue is putting our new Grandparenting blog into play at Goodcopy.com. But why grandparenting?!
My husband Lou Goldberg and I launched our printing life with Goodcopy when we were the young parents of three small children. The business was much simpler then. Most of it was copying, printing, binding, and voracious service and quality control so that we could distinguish ourselves with high quality.
Then came the technology of color, graphics, high speed communications, and the internet. What seemed overwhelming has transformed our business and enabled us to extend our reach far beyond local clients to national and international ones as well.
Astonishingly, just as technology brought growth and opportunity to our business, our new stage of life as grandparents brought us transformation as well in a vibrant, new, personal chapter with our now-adult children and their offspring:
We didn’t take enough time with our children for vacations, family trips, even minor activities in the pressure of daily life. I still remember my panic when my “baby” looked at all the photographs in our hallway and asked where his baby picture was… I confess I framed a picture of an older sibling, whom he truly resembled, and told him the picture was his!
So now we have a fresh chance with our grandchildren for all the big and little things we couldn’t (or didn’t) do the first time around. We read books more patiently, join swimming parties, arrange trips, schedule reunions, and not only take pictures, but organize and share them in internet albums.
I hope you will join me on this journey of grandparenting: The thrill of joyful news; the delight of a new little person; the love, health, education and safety of our grandchildren; the challenge of outside influences, long distances, family communication, and occasionally old and new rivalries!
May we explore these and other topics together!
All the best to you and your family from ours,
Edie Goldberg,
Grandmother
Mother
VP Marketing, Goodcopy Printing & Digital Graphics
