Originally Posted by Robinlee
We live too far away from my DGB's (6 all together) to be watched by this "grammy". When we visit I always take advantage of the babysitting thou. I have one new granddaughter, that was born October 2010, have only seen a couple pictures of her. So really in need of new baby smells and such. Had hope to go visit over the new year, but we had storms between WA and MN, so alot of interstate closings to get there, so stayed home and continued the unpackin'.
and Yes, I hate missing out on so much too.
I kept my children busy with activities, so I could sew throughout the day, and they were in bed by 7pm until they were in school. They were up at 6am, because that was the schedule that their dad had for before time with them before work. And I couldn't get them to go back to bed after work. So they had 2 naps a day, morning and afternoon. Otherwise I would of gotten nothing done.
So now with my grand childre the two boys enjoy their cars, DS's and the outdoors and going with grammy to the "fabric shop", the little 2 year old DGD loves to be right in the middle of things with you, so she is around the sewing machine all the time playin'. A "quilter" in the making I say. She does the same with her mommy.
Something else I also remember - My 2 grandson's will call and want to know when we are coming to visit. They call us their "funny grammy and papa". We do loads of fun stuff with them all, right down to getting on the floor with them when they were little and being silly. Noah (5) called in October 2010, and wanted to know when papa could bring the snowmobiles so he and his brother could learn how to ride. DH had to "promise" that we would bring them when we came at Thanksgiving. Noah will say "a promise is a promise grandpa". and yes we did take them with us and fore a change the ranch actually had more then 3" of snow that hadn't melted - had 10" when we got there. Ohhhhhhhh the GK's had so much fun. We will never forget this moment or the many others that we have shared with them.