My grandson came along and changed my world
My best year ever was 1995 when my first grandson was born. Our son Robin phoned to tell me the great news that his wife Alison had given birth to a baby boy. Rob was at the birth and I have never seen or heard my son so emotional as he described his beautiful baby.
Over the years David Andrew Clayton or Davido as he is sometimes called to differentiate him from his uncle – our third son who is a David too. The name means beloved and is a very fitting description of these two young men. As boys, both were full of fun and mischief and they loved family gatherings, playing football in the garden, climbing trees in the park, telling jokes.
We have shared lots of family holidays together and my favourite part of the day was reading bedtime stories to Davido and having a bit of down time with him when he’d talk about all the things he wanted to do and the places he wanted to visit.
One big difference between our two Davids was our son Dave endured school and although he was intelligent, his sense of mischief often prevailed – while our grandson
Davido loved school and often amazed me with his factual knowledge.
So now, years later Dave has his own successful hairdressing salon in Glasgow – called Clayton Hair, while our grandson Davido gave my husband and I one of the proudest and happiest days of our life when he graduated as a doctor from Glasgow university in June 2019.
I cried when I saw him in his university robes collecting his degree. How proud my mother, his grandmother would have been if she was still alive.
It was her great dream that one of her family would become a doctor – and here he was, an intelligent and caring young man whose desire in life is to help and heal others. He is now working in a Glasgow hospital and loves his work. Both Dave and Davido are young men with an instinctive intelligence for what makes people comfortable, happy and healthy.
And as a barber and a doctor both these gifts are used to good effect. They are above all things, men who want to make their corner of the world a better place. What mum or granny could ask for more?
They are quite simply the pride and joy of my heart.