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.
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