Posted: 6/16/2005 2:30:24 AM EDT
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In July a cousin of mine is going to get married. The Oldest son of a cousin of mine to be exact. She’s the second oldest daughter her mother had. He’s the oldest son her mother had. The oldest son of the second oldest daughter of the oldest sister is getting married to a Fifth Grade Elementary School Teacher. And if I lost you too bad. Ever since the engagement I’ve been wondering how my cousin would take hearing Two Little Words. The Mother of the Groom, that is. Her oldest sister has two children already. The youngest of the two children is happily married and is the mother of three children so far. Don’t ask me their names, I keep forgetting them. The names, not the children. And in a few years she is going to hear what her oldest sister has probably heard already. And it is arguably the most devastating as well as one of the most happy and welcome set of words a woman can possibly hear: “Hi Grandma!” As for me I remember him not quite three years old dancing at another cousin’s wedding. The youngest daughter of the second youngest sister if you want to keep track. He was stamping his feet to the music with an enormous smile on is face. And now he’s taller than me and I tower over my mother. “Hi Grandma!” Any of you Ladies care to admit or brag that you’ve heard those Two Words yet? |
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I have heard those two little words 5 x a billion. ( once they learn to say it, they say it over and over). I have three grandsons and two grand daughters, from four of my children. I have seen everything, heard everything and tried everything when it comes to children. I love them all. The big question is not do I care to admit or brag, but can I still speak in full sentences.  I am still waiting for the joy to kick in. So if I post something that sounds "un-grama-ish", try to remember, I am doing mental push-ups, and I have earned the right to be a bitch  .I am still waiting for the joy to kick in. Did I mention that already? I am too young for this!! |
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None what so ever. In sex ed this past school year the teacher asked "Who knows what it takes to make a baby" and my son raised his hand and said "A college dipolma and a marriage liscense." I've got my kids brained washed right by golly! Patty PS I was the first in my family to have kids. I was married 6 years before I had William. My father had just turned 50 and he refused to call himself Grandpa. On Will's birthday cards [my son is named after my father too ] he would sign Love Bill. I told him that he got off pretty easy since I have two older brothers and had been married quite a while before having William but it didn't help. Wasn't until Grand baby #4 that he finally accepted "Poppa" which is what my kids call him now. My sister got pregnant at 17 and my parents have raised that baby until my sister married 4 years ago.
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Oh, my, yes indeed. Two boys and a girl from my two sons. Since my late Mother and Mother-in-law were both "Grandma" and I was waaay too young, the kids call me Grandmother. "Hi Grandmother, can you come to my baseball game?" Hi Grandmother, when is Grandpa going to take us shooting?" and the 3-year-old, "Hi Gramuzzer, can I come over to your house?" Love 'em all to pieces, wouldn't trade 'em for anything, but boy do their parents deserve 'em!
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I have one granddaughter (19 months) and my daughter is 5 months pregnant with twins. I can not wait for them to get here!
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How about Grandapa?? does that count? For fathers day my 2nd daughter (22yrs) and her husband gave me a card...and it gets to the part about being a great dad...it has written in with a pen or grandpa!...the baby wont be her for 8 months ...but that still makes me a grandpa! 
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I have 5, 3 granddaughters and 2 grandsons. With #6 coming in December. Being a gramma didn't make me feel old, but when the 2 granddaughters started kindergarten last fall, THEN I felt old! Being a gramma is more fun than having your own kids, so much more relaxing!
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