Part 2

 Our granddaughter was brought to us just before we were gonna take off for Florida the first time. This friend of our granddaughter's mother came to us with our granddaughter and said can you take her please? Her mom is using drugs and there is no food in the house. She said the last thing our granddaughter ate was a 5 lb bag of sugar. she had only 1 shoe and no other clothes. Well of course we would take her in. So in the course of the next few weeks we found help in getting her clothes and making sure she had a bed and her own bedroom. This friend brought some of our granddaughter's things but no clothes. But they were things she wanted. well time went by and her mom stopped by one day with some strange guys that no one seems to know. and she went into her daughter's bed room laid down on the bed and went to sleep. WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING? Well I am upset and our granddaughter goes mom took her pills and went to sleep. SO we had to get the guys to come in our house and get her out of the house. We said she couldnt come back as long as she was still using. We had our granddaughter all summer and her mom didnt call her once to check on her to see if she was ok. Soon it was time for school to start so I had to call our granddaughter's mom and see what she wanted to do. Well she didn't have a house to even bright her daughter home so could she start school there? So again we did what we could to get clothes for her so she could go to school. Now all this time our granddaughter seemed to be happier than we had seen her in a very long time and she wasn't taking any meds like her mom had her on. and she was making friends in school. Well things probably would have been great but our son her dad moved in something we didnt approve of but thought it might help her get to know her dad a little bit. But then he started drinking heavily and then smoking pot that things went to hell fast. Soon our granddaughter's mom was here and she took her back home. We couldnt keep her even though we were the best choice. But we had to get our son out and that turned out easier said than done. We had to fight with him for 6 months or better just trying to get him out. AND oh yes we called the police trying to get them to help us but because he wasnt hurting anyone they wouldnt help us one damn bit. SO the day our granddaughter left her was the last day we ever seen or heard from her. I just pray some day she realizes that we struggled with her dad as well  and it wasn't our fault. And we love her beyond words and would love for her to come visit us in Florida. 

this grandma (gma) and Grandpa (gpa) Part1

 When I became a grandma at a very young age of 40 something, at first I was angry, our daughter so young. And then she married the baby's dad and whew we figured maybe just maybe things would work out. But they didn't. They moved into their own apartment and next thing you know they were split up and we had the baby. OH and we had our first grandson.  Our daughter talked of him going into a foster home and I said NO. I would care for him as long as he needed us. Well little did we know that from age 1 to 23 we had that baby. Change anything? HELL NO. He was a joy for us. Smart too. at 3 he was talking like a little adult and understood most everything. We asked him one time what responsibility meant. and he told us and he was 100 % correct and we had never talked to him about what it meant. At first we tried leaving him with his mom while we went out to South Dakota or up to a family reunion. But our daughter would always call us crying because he was making himself sick crying because he wanted to go with us. No matter how hard we tried to explain he couldn't come with we usually ended up taking him with just so he would stop crying. One time we were in the living room chatting about an upcoming trip out to South Dakota the next weekend. When all of a sudden I asked where is he? Well he soon came down the hallway bump bumping his way into the living room with a suitcase behind him. We asked him where he was going and he said South Dakota with gpa and gma. We laughed said we weren't going he started to cry because we had said that once before then left with out him (only to come back to get him) and his mom said what do you have packed. Well she opened up the suitcase and that kid had every single thing he needed for a weekend away from home. Even socks and underwear. No toys or blankets just the clothes he would need to be away for 3 days. Well that suitcase stayed packed till the day we left and yes of course he went with. SO many many memories. All the Monopoly games I played all the card games. All the pumpkins I carved. all the sneaking in and pulling out the tooth and leaving money, so I can hear the excitement in the morning Gma the tooth fairy came! All the dying of eggs and then playing Easter Bunny. And the best 2 of all Halloween and Christmas. And teaching him about Thanksgiving and no July 4th isn't just gma's birthday we also celebrate our countries birthday. All one of the biggest thing this gma did for 4 of her grandchildren. she taught them to use the Toilet. And since they were all 4 boys it was not an easy task. But I'd do anything for all 8 of my grandchildren if I could. our daughter's 4 boys we see quite often. Our youngest son's 3 kids we see once in awhile. Our oldest son's daughter we don't ever see now. Haven't since she left us. But that's part 2 of this post.