Hey, you lose some, you win some...
 

Hey, I may have lost a younger man with a shaved head and smelly socks, but I'm gaining a younger man with a toothles grin, a bald head who wears diapers!

Just got the call from my son that he and his wife are officially having a boy!
They got the ultrasound today and said little Bart Simpson was all too happy to show his stuff ! :eek:

For the last 22 years it's been PINK PINK PINK in our house... it's about time we get some blue going on!

(My son is 31, and my next daughter is 22...:) )

I know this isn't PN related, but I have to share it with my PN family!

Congrats....
 

To You!!!!!

Congratulations!
 

I'll bet you spoil him big time but he'll enjoy every minute of the attention. Maybe he can help ease your pains at times too.
Congratulations again - may your grandson enjoy many years of health, wealth, and happiness.

Alkymst

How Exciting For You!!
 

And for your son and his wife. May you have many happy years with this little fellow!!

Billye

Wonderful news!!
 

You see there is so much to be grateful for Seams.

How lovely. A new baby.

I'm so happy for you.:hug:

You sound like a terrific grandma!!!!

All the best,:hug: :hug:
mel

Love and joy
 

to you and him. My you and his parents live long and prosper!

Congrats on being a grandmother, soon :) and may he bring your family much joy.

I have 3 grandsons, and 4 granddaughters. They are all a great joy, although I have not met the youngest little one, his mom and my son are not together and she won't let me see Ethin. She keeps telling my son that he isn't the father, but that little guy is the spitting image of his daddy!

They are little miracles, the greatest gift our children can ever give us.

Congratulations. I am still grandchildless...given the brood I have raised it is surprising. (Maybe not) We have our first wedding coming up next year. I am awaiting having a grandchild that will hopefully remember having a grandma.:D

Congrats on the blue.

Congrats !!
I don't want to hijack a thread, but I've got 7 grandkids
2 girls and 5 boys ranging in age from 18 to 3, and we found out
(in late March) that there's a 8th on the way.
My daughter's 6th!
We dunno (at least I don't, yet) if its a boy or girl, but my
daughter has 4 boys & a girl (8 y.o.), & she desperately
wants a sister.(she loudly exclaims)
Maybe she'll get her wish.

Great,
 

Congrats due to you to Bob! Those grandchildren are precious.

Billye

Bob:

I'm adopting all your family

:hug:

Melody

Yeah,........I know.....but........
when they all come over for Thanksgiving or Xmas, or
just for a visit.....by the time they leave (my daughter will
stay and talk,..... and talk, ......and talk..... and....... til 1:00 in the mornin')
I definitely have an Excedrin headache.
All the toddlers running about, screaming and yelling, and the older ones playing video games at top volume, and there's people in every room talking and laughing. Its enough to make a Grinch extremely un-well.
I rather like to visit them - then I can say that I gotta leave
and go home to let the dog out to pee. :) .

Melody--
 

--be careful; you might have to make muffins around the clock if you adopted them all. :wink:

Well, since I just made a honey and teriyaki chicken (to die for), what the hell are a few more muffins. You make 4, you make 24. Takes the same amount of oven space and the same 15 minutes.

Gee, just the thought of toddlers, running around and calling me Grandma!!!

I was born for that. Now Alan, that's a whole other ball of wax. He likes quiet!!

lol
Mel

I am envious...
 

I just wish my two daughters would get married !

Be careful what you wish for!
 

If they get married, you may get yukky son in laws! I agree with Bob, I like to visit "them" and then go home when I'm ready. Unfortunately my cutie pie 4 year old granddaughter lives with me... and every time I hear her cry I want to run to see what's wrong.
This September is "INDEPENDENCE DAY" for everyone! Our lease is up and we are all going our own ways! But we are all so close we will probably end up in three different apartments in the same complex!

Oh, but son and his wife live in Arizona, we live in California, so we don't get to see them often enough. I'm making a quilt for new baby. It's hand dyed fabric, with little seat turtles and dolphins embroidered on it. Son is making the babies room a "Surfer" theme! He's gonna cut his surfboard in half long ways and mount it on the wall... :cool: Cute huh? Grandbabies are Gods way of paying us back for putting up with our kids!

Hey Bob, I used to do that to my Dad too! I loved him so much! You're a lucky dad to have your daughter in your life! But six kids? :eek: Is she crazy? Or just a sucker for punishment?

Aaah... Another quilter in our midst... How about posting a picture Terri? I am a quilter, too. A SLOOOOW quilter, but nevertheless, a quilter... :)

Cathie

Yes
 

My little Grandson is i month and 4 days old. Many blessings to you
and your family. Those little sweethearts are a lot better then smelly
feet..:) Sue

I think both!
And she's getting too old for this, she's 37. She'll be almost 60
when this new one gets out of college. and she home schools all of her kids (she's got a B.A. in elementary ed.).
I've talked to her husband about the BIG "V" (vasectomy- got mine after kid #3 in 1977 - #4 is my step-son, in college now), but he's Catholic (barely- doesn't actively practice) and it seems to go in one ear and out the other.

Well, you're lucky she's not a mormon in one of those polygamous sects. The man is supposed to have a minimum of 3 wives. and the wives call each other sister-wives and if they only have 5 kids (each wife, I mean), they think it's a disgrace.

And if the husband sees another woman he wants to make his wife, and that other woman happens to be married, well, they can order her to get a divorce, and then the other guy can then take her to be his wife.

That's why there is all this inbreeding among the polygamous mormons. Now this has absolutely nothing to do with the Church of Latter Day Saints. They don't practice polygamy. But the ones that do, well, these poor women are petrified to leave this sect.

And now they found that the kids share a common gene due to all the inbreeding. It was on the internet yesterday.

They even have breeding charts on the walls so they can try and find out who to marry and breed with. When I saw that in a special on tv, I almost choked. It's a really dangerous sect.

One guy has 48 kids with various wives. And these kids are each other brothers and sisters, and cousins too. And it's not unusual for a guy to marry both a mother and her daughter (his stepdaughter).

These sects really have it all together. They own the police and the doctors so no one talks. They do have people who have escaped and found organizations to help the runaway wives.

I might not be a religious person, but all this really sounds sick.

So to the woman with 6 kids. God bless you. I hope they are very good to you on Mother's day. You deserve it!!!

mel

P.S. Can you just imagine a Morman man who gets a vasectomy?? They would run him out of town.

Whoo hoo!!!
 

Congrats to all of you! I'm right there with you.

I found out a couple of months ago that I was going to be a grandma for the first time. Found out Thursday, for sure, that it's a girl. She's due to arrive Oct 12. Or there abouts....you know how first babies are. :wink:

I can't wait. All the fun and none of the responsibility. :p

From one grannie to another: :hug:

Well Bob, I just have to throw my 2 cents in here.:p

I have 5 kids, yet I probably started at a much younger age than your daughter. I was 17 when I married, a month after graduation from high school. I thought I was in love, now I think I wanted away from home, never new what love was. My first son was born when I was 18 1/2 yrs old. Yet, for as long as I could remember, I always wanted to be a mom and I wanted 6 kids. After 3, I decided 3 was enough, yet too late, I was pregnant with my 4th son by then. My celiac disease had kicked in at full force by now and no one knew what was wrong with me. After that baby was born, I went on birth control pills, yet the celiacs caused me to not absorb properly and I soon was pregnant with baby #5.

I love being a mom and there isn't a one I would give up. Yes life can be hectic at times, when my last was born, I had 5 kids under 8 yrs old. AND, yes, some have given me some rough times, yet the love is always there and each one of them know I love them.

As long as your grandkids are taken good care of and loved, life is good. I know the visits can be tiring, but the memories are always yours to keep. My kids will not have 5 kids each. My oldest has 2 daughters, he adopted his wife's daughter and they have one together and no more to come--my 2nd son has 2 with his first wife and is marrying a woman with 2 of her own, they will not have more--my 3rd son has 2 with his wife and I do not think they will have anymore--4th son has an 8 month old son with a woman he is not with and my daughter says she is never having any. I thank God for my grandkids, they are the greatest gift your child can give you.

Just hug her and tell her she is doing a great job.:hug:

Deb

Thanks for your thoughts, Deb- actually she was a H.S. dropout at age 14 1/2 and when pregnant at 16, studied for her G.E.D. then went to college and got her BA. My oldest is now 19, with some community college credits, and we just went to a graduation ceremony (High School) for about 30 of the home schooled kids in our area thru the home school accreditation organization. Each had a graduation speech to deliver. Each was so independent, intelligent and self motivated - it was a credit to all the home school moms out there who just felt that the 'system' was wrong for their kids. Many were already taking college credits and all were college bound, with over half getting scholarships of some type. It was an exciting afternoon.

Yup--memories!!!:hug: