Rent-a-Grandma

I am reading this book and came across a great idea.

Good enough to post.

Kismet enough to act upon.

A woman (who is 59 years old) was missing her grandma and decides she wants to rent a grandma. Someone to do all the Grandmotherly things such as bake cookies, knit, crochet, mend clothes, on and on...

So, she posts a note at the local senior center and gets an overwhelming response from many women there. She interviews them all and chooses one who comes for about 5 hours a week. She pays her 10.00 an hour.

I think that is such a stroke of genius, not only is someone in a senior center given another purpose, an opportunity to make friends and even make money...but to be wanted as part of a family.

I value what many older people bring to the table with their years of experience and knowledge.

I think this is an idea I may enact in my own life.