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Posted: 2024-07-01T07:00:04Z | Updated: 2024-07-01T07:00:04Z

Grandparents support their grandkids in a multitude of ways, whether its helping to raise them day to day, teaching them new skills and life lessons, showing interest in their hobbies, or providing a listening ear and words of wisdom when they need guidance. But its not a one-way relationship grandchildren enrich their grandparents lives in ways big and small, too.

We recently asked the grandparents of the HuffPost Facebook community to share the thoughtful gestures and heartfelt comments from their grandkids that have really stuck with them. Read their sweet stories below:

1. My granddaughter asked me to let her record me singing the lullabies I used to sing to her so she can have them for her children. Ruth G.

2. I had a very catastrophic fall while out of the country. After two surgeries, I got a flight home and was hospitalized. My granddaughter asked her teacher if everyone in the class could sign the get-well card she made for me. I wept in gratitude for days for having such a thoughtful, caring child in my life. Paula B.

3. During a recent visit, my 7-year-old grandson told me that hes never homesick when he stays with us because our house is like his house. He also said that he felt sad because he didnt really want to go home, but he realized that he needed to see his parents and play some Pokmon. Nan Wise

4. My grandson knows I love baseball and takes me to the Yankee games whenever we can get there. Its really difficult for him because he has to get a wheelchair and car for me and then push me all around the stadium. Phyllis M.

5. Two of my grandkids live 150 miles away. When we go to visit, they are standing in front of the window and jump up and down with excitement when we pull into the driveway. Melts my heart every time! Another grandchild, who is 5, told me recently that she loves me deep in her soul. Sue O.

6. When my sweet grandson had pneumonia, his mommy told me that he cried for his nana. Gail H.

7. Spotting me coming out of the arrivals section of the airport and running full-speed at me while yelling, Grandma! at the top of his lungs. My heart was so full. Janet R.