Grandparents

We are back from two weeks in Virginia, and Jimmy is as cute as ever a baby can be!!! We are having so much fun being Oma and Opa. We just wrapped our days around that little boy and enjoyed every moment. We are going back in May for his first birthday.

I never really knew my grandmothers well. They lived in Texas and we lived in Ariz. We went to visit every year, but once a year is not enough to really know someone and they had all the other grandchildren close by so their relationships were much closer and I could always feel that. When we had children I always hoped they would have the chance to know their grandmothers (interestingly there were no grandfathers alive in either generation). Anyway, we lived in Douglas when the kids were young and they did get to know both grandmothers, with the exception of Travis, who was 3 when we moved away. He probably didn't feel he knew them as well as the other kids. I have always been grateful for that time. I had help with the kids and they had that sense of extended family that comes from knowing the older generation. Jimmy will have that sense in that he has Shaun's family here and his Grandma Ta baby sits him while Mommy works. I am truly very grateful for that for everyone concerned. I know what a wonderful gift it is to everyone.

And his Oma & Opa are just going to work harder at maintaining a long distance relationship with him so that he never feels like he doesn't really know us. It is easier with all the electronic aids we have now, but. . . it just makes me a little sad that I am not going to be the one he has that special relationship with. Just the way the ball bounces. :)