Friday, April 27, 2007

Hurrah

Hurrah!!!
Hurrah!!!
Hurrah!!!
Hurrah!!!
Hurrah!!!


I opened the door and there they stood. It felt like Christmas morning and they were beautiful packages waiting to be unwrapped. They lit up my life for four glorious days.

My daughter has a new whispy, shaggy hairstyle that suits her perfectly, has lost weight and glows with a new confidence since we'd last been together almost a year ago. My grandchildren were even more georgeous than the fabulous photos we'd been getting of them.

I mean our daughter and OUR grandchildren. Sorry.

I had the thought that it might be awkward for our grandchildren for a bit since it had been so long. I needn't have worried. They are two of the most exquisite human beings imaginable. REALLY. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that they are my grandchildren!!! But, mostly to do with the fact of their parenting.

I was a little jealous that they coveted Grandpa more than they did me. The next day we all went to "The Wilbur May Center" museum. The highlight was when the kids held real live snakes! Yikes! I pretended like I did it all the time so I wasn't expected to participate. (I could have if I had to).

The next night Grandpa had to work. Sad faces from both of his idolizers. After an adventure of investigating near the water and climbing Indian Rock at Pyramid Lake, we stopped in to see Grandpa at work in the casino. It must have been a bit like Chucky Cheesee on steroids for the kids walking through all the lights and noise and people. We had no trouble getting them to keep holding our hands. As soon as Granddaughter saw Grandpa she called out his name and ran at him with joy and relief.

A long trip to Tahoe was next where we had a new eating experience at Fire n' Ice. Grandson and I stayed on terra firma while the two girls took the gondola ride up to Heavenly and back. We spent some time at the shore of Lake Tahoe exploring and posing for the pro. Waiting patiently and expectantly to see the results. On the rest of the trip around the lake we stopped at the exact spot where I had taken the picture of Lake Tahoe that is on this blog.

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That was me having a pity party......

It was distressing to hear that they had car trouble on the way back home and that it is going to cost a big hunk of change to fix.

14 comments:

  1. You gush really nicely. :)

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  2. Glad to hear you had a nice visit! Too bad they had car trouble!

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  3. How fun to get a visit--what a lovely event!

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  4. Yay for you. I always heard that grandkids are so much fun they make you wish you'd have had them first.

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  5. You're linked on Parent Dish so I dropped over to say HI from another granny (great-granny actually).

    I have 10 grandkids (counting "steps" 13) and 3 greats. I'm raising the greats and talk about them on my blog (and to anyone else who will listen).

    Congratulations on the Thinking Blogs award. Sure is hard to limit our choices to 5, isn't it?

    Ann (aka granny)

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  6. meno-toni-scribbit-thanks

    cw-they feel like the highest reward for all those years of responsibility.

    granny-that's a lot of rewards. Thanks for stopping by. I've stopped by your blog also.

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  7. How nice to know that you had a good time! I bet they were just as thrilled with you as you were with them.

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  8. By the way, I mentioned you in my post tonight...hehe. Hope that's alright. If not, lemme know and I'll remove your name. (i tried to contact you via email, but couldn't find a link for it)

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  9. My mom swears that being a grandmother is far, far better than being a mom.

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  10. I had six kids as a way of hedging my bets that I'll get at least half a dozen grandkids out of it!

    Thanks for visiting The Smiling Infidel!

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  11. vancouver mermaid/montreal photographer-that toni keeps leading me astray!

    jen-your mom is right. There's much more joy when you're relieved of all the responsibility.

    elasticwaistbandlady-thank you for the thank you, and I hope you will be blessed with dozens of grandchildren!

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  12. I just tagged you on a meme, should you choose to accept this mission. :)

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  13. I can feel your excitement! How wonderful for you both to have grandchildren. Happy hugs!

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