Your own children? A chore for sure and for a long time. The best is when THEY have kids. You can visit and play with them and then when you get tired of it just hand him/her back to mom or dad....
My mother and father come over to the house quite often. They’re grandparents now.
My mother kisses every child. “Well just come here and kiss your grandmummy. Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm! Grandmummy just love her to death!” And my children think that my mother’s the most wonderful person on the face of this earth, and I keep telling my children, “That’s *not* the same woman I grew up with! You are looking at an old person, who’s trying to get into Heaven now.”
-Bill Cosby
My niece is loving being a grandmother. Babysits a lot and comes down with every bug the kids get. I sympathize over the phone.