The Roller Coaster

Wow, this month has been a real roller coaster.

On January 11th we experienced the birth of our first grandchild, a beautiful, healthy baby boy. I was able take a week off work to spend helping out my son and daughter-in-law as they adjusted to having the new baby.

Then on January 21st, I received a call from my mother telling me she thought she was having a heart attack. We rushed her to the hospital and she had surgery for a blockage and a heart stent implanted. Then further testing showed she needed a pace maker so that surgery came the following day.

Mom is now home and improving daily, but it will be a slow process as she heals.

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The last three weeks have shown me just how quickly things can change and how precious each moment is. How life can change. I went the euphoria of having a new grandchild and watching this wonderful new being everyday for a week, back to the everyday grind of a job. From gathering pen and paper to head to a meeting, to grabbing my coat and rushing to the hospital. Joy, Excitement, Birth, Life, Daily Living, Fear, Worry, One short phone call, a couple of breaths, a heart beat that is thankfully still beating.

Don't take life for granted. We do not have the promise of tomorrow. We have today and the opportunity to tell those we love how much they mean to us. Don't let this chance slip away.

Introducing: Our Grandson

Our daughter-in-law went into labor this morning and delivered our first grandson this evening. This is a shortly after he was born. It's a bit blurry and not in perfect focus, but I think it is beautiful.

We all need a good laugh!

Happy Monday to all:

I love my Daughter-in-Law

I went shopping with my wonderful daughter-in-law today. I always have a great time when we are together. And the fact that we found some great bargains was just icing on the cake.


If I had picked a wife for my son, I couldn't have picked a better person than my DIL. She loves my son and is sweet, kind and she even likes me back. What more could a MIL ask for?

We are on the count down to the new grandchild with just over five weeks to go. My son was born four weeks early so as her due date gets closer I am reminded of his birth and how exciting yet scary it was. We were so thankful that he was fine and did not have to stay in the hospital but one extra day. My greatest fear was that I would have to go home and leave my baby in the hospital. I thank God, that didn't happen and we came home together. I still remember that first look from my son. His look went all the way to my soul. There is nothing like that first look from your child.

This is an exciting time for our family as we look forward to Christmas and New Year and the new baby.

Later
D

Anticipation

At the end of May I reported our son and daughter-in-law are expecting their first child and our first grandchild. This past Sunday I noticed she has the beginnings of a "bump." At approximately 15 weeks she is just beginning to show.

In anticipation of the baby's birth in January, I have ordered a Canon Rebel XTi camera. I figure everyone will sick of me practicing to use this camera by the time the baby arrives.

When it arrives I will write a review, but having talked with a couple of friends that have this camera already I fully expect to be extremely pleased.

I am very excited to get the camera and see what it can do. Then I plan to practice, practice, practice so I can take great shots of our grand baby. (Be prepared to be inundated with baby pictures around the first of the year.)

Later
D

Baby Oil To The Rescue

Baby oil has many uses beyond what the name would indicate.

Tonight my husband came into the kitchen as I was cooking dinner. I noticed he had a comb in his hair. Which is odd because his hair is short and I didn't see how it was staying in place. I commented on it and he said he had glue in his hair and needed me to cut it out. He hadn't realized he had glue on his hand and touched the back of his head. Unfortunately the glue was spread across a fairly wide spot and it wasn't just on the tips. I was concerned if I cut the hair, the spot would be very noticeable. I suddenly remembered baby oil. What was the worse that could happen? He might need to wash is hair again but that was it. Since the glue was epoxy I wasn't sure what to expect., but it did remove a lot of the glue. Not completely but there was only a couple of spots on the tips that I couldn't get to release and I did cut those out. Needless to say we were both pleased.

Here are just a few other uses for baby oil
Remove the sticky residue left from labels and price tags
Eye makeup remover
A Skin softener when used in bath water
Remove latex paint from skin

Google uses for baby oil and you'll see just how many links are pulled. Amazing stuff.

Seven Weeks

This afternoon I received a text message from my son. The last time I received a "multimedia" message was when he let us know they were pregnant. So when I saw today's message I knew before I opened the image, what it would be. Our daughter-in-law is seven weeks pregnant and we have a sonogram picture of the baby. A blurry, hard to make out the details, picture of our first grandchild. It was beautiful!

There was one small incident that marred the moment. While we talked tonight my son made a comment that really bothered me. He seems to think his wife is being influenced by the stories other women have told her about their battles with morning sickness during their pregnancy. I love my son and he is very smart, but on this subject he's being a dufus. Being pregnant and all the changes occurring to her body can easily cause her to experience nausea. I did not have morning sickness while pregnant but I did have a bout most evenings around 6 PM. Every woman is different but pregnancy is a huge change to the body and that alone can cause an upset to the system. I do hope he doesn't say as much to his sweet wife. He doesn't need both of us upset with him.... ;-)

The picture says: Pregnant!!!!

Pregnant

We have only one child. I miscarried twice before I became pregnant and carried almost to term. He was a month early yet weighed over 7 lbs. Amazingly he was only in NICU for 1 day. That was 23 years ago. Today I found out he and his beautiful wife are expecting their first child. My heart is overflowing. We are going to be grandparents and are thrilled.



....to be continued.