01848cam a2200289 i 4500 271404966 TxAuBib 20160903120000.0 160516s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016009268 9781455586172 145558617X TxAuBib rda Snelling, Lauraine. The Second Half [TP] : a novel / Lauraine Snelling. First edition. New York : FaithWords, 2016. 350 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren. Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone University. They've already been making plans to travel, spend limitless hours in the garden, and Ken is looking forward to working on his woodworking and fishing with his grandchildren. It's what they deserve after years of careful planning. Then, just days before Ken's last official day of work, their son, a Special Forces officer in the Army, learns he's being immediately deployed on a six-month mission in Pakistan. Since his wife left him, the only people he trusts to care for his two young children are his parents. In an instant, everything Ken and Mona spent their lives planning changes, and they will need to find strength, both physical and mental, to become parents once more. 20160903. Grandparents Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Domestic fiction.