Niall OConnor: Note to a New Grandchild.

We, your grandparents, welcome you,

and bequeath to you, our best efforts,

- your parents.

You will complete our work

and teach them that to love without condition,

is to finally grow into adulthood.

We promise to spoil you,

- ignoring their protests –

and give you the very best, and possibly the last,

of all the cuddles we have stored,

in preparation for your arrival!

Our embraces will be your swaddling clothes;

our children are our gift to you.

Niall OConnor