Have I mentioned….?

It has taken me a little while to mention this.  Not because I haven’t WANTED to, mind you… but because well, there are other things I’ve had to be busy about and mentioning.

But, soon, I will be a Grandma for the very first time.  My daughter Lindsey is expecting her first baby.

This experience of becoming a Grandma… I’m glad it takes nine months to complete because it is somewhat surreal.  I can imagine that only the Grandmas out there fully understand this.  I know I didn’t get it before now completely.

Lindsey is 7 months along now.  And she’s on bedrest.  She gets a little bored.  Just two days ago, she asked me if I would braid her hair.  It was like a movie…I kid you not.  I was braiding her hair and I kept having flashbacks to when she was 3 – 4 – 6 and I braided her hair. 

And now, my daughter is having a baby. She is going to be a mommy.  And I…. a grandma.

It sounds musical doesn’t it?  I have so many things I want to do as a grandma.  I started a journal entitled “Dear Granddaughter…” oh. Did I mention its a GIRL?

I spent a half hour googling “names to call Grandma” and then “names for Grandma” and then “Grandparent names” to figure out what I want to be called: nana? mima? Mo ma?Nanoo? Ninny? haha.  I haven’t figured it out yet.  Something grandmaish…. yet kind of cool ya know?

I got to hear her heartbeat last week.  Joe couldn’t go to Lindsey’s appt with her so I got to go.  And I’ve had four daughters now… and I KNOW what a baby’s heartbeat sounds like.  But, a GRAND daughter’s heart beat.  Holy cow.  It’s so much GRANDER!  She’s so SMART! :)

So… yeah… life is changing.  Very quickly.  And it’s all good.