2023 Author: Anita Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-22 03:30
Becoming grandparents is ultimately as important as becoming parents. When our children have children, it is a milestone paved with great joy. Here are three touching testimonies.
It is a state of fullness
Throughout our daughter-in-law's pregnancy, I felt that the coming of our granddaughter was intangible, abstract. But when she was born and we (my husband and I) arrived in her room, the first thing I saw was my son and my daughter-in-law leaning over her little bed. What a beautiful image that the love of this couple for this little girl! I realized suddenly and clearly that all the love we had invested in raising our son had been concentrated, like a culmination, in this image. And when my son said to me: “Here is Lili, you can take her”, it was an explosion of emotions.
A few days later, I was rocking her and she started staring at me, as if she recognized me and accepted me. Since that moment, it is always with immense and growing joy that we meet again. It is a pure joy to see her grow up and be loved by her parents and all her family.
Good and happy life little Lili; you can always count on great-mom to play, laugh, help you and share what you want to tell me. Thank you!
Louise, grandma of Lili 18 months (daughter of Nancy Richard)
Becoming grandparents
If we ask ourselves in life to choose the greatest emotions and list them, we could probably say: meet the woman of his life, live with her, get married, start a family and that was my case. I have been very fortunate to have two beautiful daughters who have been very successful in everything they do.
But above all, what fills my heart is to be the happiest grandpa. My father when he was alive said: it's fun to be a father, but wait until you are a grandfather! You will see, it is inexplicable the pleasure you have. At the time, I said to myself of course without being convinced, but since October 16, 2008, I have grasped and understood what he meant, because we are grandparents, my wife and I, from the most beautiful little girl in the world whose name is Lili. We state this objectively, of course!
For my part, I feel privileged to spend an entire day each week with my granddaughter. It allows me to develop a special bond with her. For both of us, the weekends when we babysit Lili bring us immense happiness. They allow us to see it grow and blossom.
Maurice and Ghislaine, Grandparents of Lili 18 months (daughter of Nancy Richard)Ah! I forgot, we will soon be grandparents for a secondtime! Thank you Nancy and Rémi!
Waiting to become grandparents
We are here, the six of us together, in a small studio in the Laurentians. We are happy to meet again. When our children become adults, they live their lives, their experiences and when we find each other, we find ourselves among adults and the relationship is completely different than that of parents/children… of yore!
And that night there was a magical moment… we were told that we were going to be grandparents! Grandparents, yes, we were going to appropriate a new title: Grandpa and Grandma. And lo and behold, the wait began…
Will we have a grandson or a granddaughter, or both, because the chances are high if we look at the genetics of both families? When? It's the birthday of this one or that one around this date… Brown, brown, blond, a little red, how will her hair be? Will he or she have hair? Did mom have hair at birth? Father? Yes, yes, I remember! This is how, as the days go by, we ask ourselves questions about… grandma!
Time passes, the mother-to-be pays so much attention to this little cherub in the oven…, chooses her food, her drinks, does a lot of exercises… everything is perfect on that side. And the future dad, is he ready for this great adventure? More questions from grandma! And, as the days go by, we notice that our children who have become adults experience these great moments with as muchexcitement than we experienced it just over 25 years ago… Ultrasound 12 weeks, 20 weeks, all good… It will be a girl! WOW! We who had two boys!
Time is running out.
We are attracted by the baby department in the stores, there are so many, but so many accessories, but we stick to the basics… We will buy a crib in order to accommodate this safe little loving baby. We wait, again and again, the days pass. Not having a great talent for waiting, I find that time passes slowly. I hope with all my heart that baby will be due, but that it will not go too far beyond the expected date. And here is the scheduled date, here we are… The wait continues, the minutes tick away, like an hourglass…
Baby keeps waiting, over and over again… Every time the phone rings, our hearts ring even louder, but no… And on a Monday, 11 days after the due date, the medical world will help this baby of love to be born, it will be quite a long time, we will wait for the news. At 1:40 p.m., phone call, that’s it, work has begun… WOW! In a few hours, we will be grandparents, the wait is over, we can't wait to hold her in our arms, to kiss our daughter-in-law, to congratulate our son, but time passes, and we are still waiting… 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m.…will have to sleep. Sleep does not come. A glance at the dial, it's 11:45 p.m., no news. A strange feeling takes hold of me, but powerless, I try to sleep, and finally, at 12:15 a.m. thephone ringing, in fact, he hasn't had time to finish ringing: "Hello, Florence was born at 11:09 p.m., yes, she's fine…"
What great news! That's it, we became grandparents tonight! 9 months waiting for this phone call that will change our lives forever!
Kiss Florence! You are already so precious to us!
Grandma Ginette
We have several articles about grandparents in our family section.
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