Bookie, I loved your dream. I'm not a grandma yet. I look forward to that day.

Big congratulations to you Louisa!!!!!!

Louisa, you've got a lot of shopping to do. You better get busy!

My sister is a new grandmom and she is forever buying pink items for her teeny, tiny, adorable grand-daughter.

Enjoy the babies everyone. I am a tweener. Two of my kids are teens and the other is 20 so I'm between them being babies and having babies.

Congratulations Louisa--being a grandma is absolutely the best thing in the whole world. I have 3 grandsons who mean everything to me. If they ask me to jump, I say how high and how often! I thought I'd only like granddaughters, but since I don't have any of those, I'd recommend grandsons highly--there's so much to do with them--my favorite thing--taking the twins to see Thomas the Tank Engine!

You're right Bookie - there is nothing like being a grandma for the first time -- may I share what I wrote when I first found out my grandbeauty was on her way ?

i'm going to have a grandbaby
words i never thought i'd hear
daddy always said not me -- nope
i was beginning to give up hope

then mommy came along
and daddy changed his mind
and now i have a grandbaby coming
i'll "pretend" you're mine all mine

things i want to do with you
places i want you to see
from taking you to McDonald's
to Disney World with grandpa and me

i want to tell you stories
and brush your pretty hair
watch the bugs and butterflies
rock you in the family chair

i want to smile while daddy spoils you
and remember when he was three
watch grandpa's heart burst with love
have "to my special grandbaby"
under the Christmas tree

i want to share you with your mommy
and try to give her good advice
to see you all together happy
will be worth any sacrifice

hurry now baby girl
so grandma won't be blue
i want to hold you in my arms and say
sweet marianna belle
i love you
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Grandbaby's can change your life like nothing else in the world. We're going over to spend Thanksgiving with her and my son/daughter-in-law today and I wish I had words to describe how THANKFUL I am for being given the chance to watch her grow !!!

congratulations, louisa!

and thanks for the great poem, lion!

my first and only grand is now 9 months old and a total joy. her middle name is melissa, for our daughter who died at age 13. one day when i was rocking her, she got very still and just stared at the 8 x 10 of our daughter for several seconds. then she broke out in the most joyful smile! it was like she suddenly recognized her auntie and made my heart warm...