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Hi LA,
I haven't seen you around the last couple of days....
I hope everything's OK.
~ Marsh
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Thank you for the check-in, MM...
We have a granddaughter!! 36 hours of labor...and now, a darling tiny being, added to our family!
My DDIL did it all without drugs (okay, a tiny bit in the middle and then decided no to any more) and hearing her took me back to my own son's birth (her husband) because he took 36 hours to deliver...
And my DH and YS were there, too..along with nine others...DDIL has a fan club, too...and I came home last night and slept for ten hours.
LOL
Precious days...I'm leaving for work now and will be back.
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Congratulations LA!! Your sweet spirit carries on. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Have I told you lately, how much your wisdom has meant to me and my own personal growth? {{{{{LA}}}}
[color:"#39395A"]***Well, it's sort of hard to still wonder if you were consolation prize in the midst of being cherished.***
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[color:"#2964d8"]"I think we have come out on the other side... meaning that we love each other more than we ever did when we loved each other most." [/color]
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YEAH! That is SOOOO wonderful! Enjoy! I've missed your words of wisdon! Oh, all the cute and frilly little things! I had my OS the same way...LOL...24 1/2 hours... WOW...I was sooooo tired...I asked not to hold him immediately after...LOL...I let them clean him up first... Well, worth all the work! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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Congratulations, LA!!!
I'm so happy for you!
Finally a little girl to cherish!!
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MM -- that's what my DIL said when she was holding Phoenix...and I said, "I already have a wonderful daughter" and kissed her forehead.
Thank you 10S...I appreciate, and yes, enjoyed hearing I matter...thank you. As for the spirit...I've been thinking this is like getting to love my mom again...from the beginning...I'm hoping the love and attention I can give to my GD will help in recovering from missing my mom.
SS - My Dad is stable for now...I'm going back down to see him the day after Christmas...was thinking of asking DIL if she wanted to go with...and his great granddaughter. I think that might be a pipedream right now...but his bday is in late January. Maybe then.
Or maybe the first week of January...when he has his pacemaker exchanged for an internal defibrillator...
So many chances to be there...hard for me to pick and choose.
I'm very, very blessed...by all of you, and your prayers, thoughts and wishes for me. Thank you.
And I'm very grateful my DH was there, with me, through all of it...and with his son, delighted over his granddaughter...recovering our marriage leads to many, many blessings.
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LA, Just took a look at your thread to catch up on your situation.
{{{{{LA}}}}}
Hugs and prayers for you.
I lost my dad 10-plus years ago, and my mother is not doing well in assisted living. I'm flying to see her today, as I do every few weeks for a day, and my sister (who lives near her) and I will go through her "care conference" with her. She's been sleeping in her chair, we learned yesterday, because she can't breathe lying down, so now she needs a hospital bed ASAP.
I am sorry for your loss, and sorry for your dad's crisis! I really appreciate your willingness to share your life and wisdom here.
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Oh, LA!!!!
Congratulations, Grandma!!
What a lucky little girl to come into the world and already have such a big fan club! She's going to be well loved.
I'm so very happy for you and your family!! It's a great time of year to get to celebrate a precious new addition ... the ultimate Christmas present!
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Hi LA - Congratulations! I'm many years away from grandparent status myself (I better be, at least. I told our son the other night that if he gets a girl pregnant before he's married, he'd better tell me first and let me break the news to MP. He didn't get it...) 36 hours?!? Ouch. I think my mom was in labor for 12 hours with me. I'm not sure. I know I was there, but I have no memory of it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> MP was in labor for 6 hours with DS12, and only 4 with DD4. Yes, many friends and family were jealous to hear that. (I believe one friend, who has 3 kids, said "I hate her.") (Though MP took the epedural-thingy both times...good thing too, 'cause when DD was born she about shattered the bones in my left hand during one of her contractions before the injection...) Anyway, congrats and enjoy your new granddaughter. And remember (from what I've been told at least), the great thing about grandkids is that you can spoil them rotten and then give them back to their parents <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given to you.
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LA:
I have just read your thread and wanted to send you some ((((((HUGS)))))
I am sorry to hear of the death of your mother. You state that you feel that you never reconnected to her. You did. This thread shows you how you did. That phone call on Aug 26, started it all. And if you called weekly after that, you are LovingAnyway and you did good.
Your Dad? Go visit him You will never regret going and he will never forget. Even if you have to make the same trip again ten times in the next ten years...
And the GD? Cool!
And by the way, what is FOO? I checked most of the lists and didn't see that one.
I truly enjoyed reading your thread, and the posts you made to others all over this site. You make it great here. And to read your story, I am truly in awe of you.
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Thank you! LL, AmI, HB...AND (((Rindermama))))... HB...you gotta earn your grandpa wings...you're doing so now...and I love God's design that we get another chance to hold, kiss on and cuddle a baby...and an infant...a toddler...a child...just to about there. LOL Okay, so the rest, too. And I get to do so now, being who I really am...rather than the first time around. HB--I was a hand-crusher, too...so I taught my DIL the open-palm way...and she did it beautifully! LG - Thank you for your congrats and condolences...and yes, I did my part and had to respect her choices...and I felt her with me yesterday...and I've been wearing her clothes, and saying what I wanted to say, and grieving a little every day. And I've meant to say, I love your sigline...it fits my life very well...until now. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Thank you for your congrats, love and support. LA
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Congratulations, LA!!! Phoenix is so lucky to have you for a grandma! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Hugs, Happy
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LA, Not much to add, just wanted to say congratulations again, and best wishes with Baby!
Me 40, OD 18 and YD 13
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Hi LA, It's Friday again... Thinking of you, my dear! I just emailed my mom and now I'm wondering how the heck I managed to end up without any dark chocolate in the house. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Got to do something about that.... Hugs! Happy
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How was the weekend LA?
What's the latest?
SS
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Hiya EO & HTBH! EO, share the dark chocolate with HTBH...she's being brave and needs to rot her teeth. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> SS...Looks like I'll be heading back to Dad's house New Year's Eve...hopefully, for ten days or so...pending my boss's approval. I hope to be there for the pacemaker/defibrillator switcheroo...and this will be just me and him time, since my sis will be going back to her house in another state. I've had some more down and up times...I reached out and called my parents' neighbor and connected that way...which was lovely for me...I miss my mother's voice something awful...she understood that. She's generous that way. I'm asking for what I think I need and getting through...my H and I did our communication exercise, which reconnects us, so there was that relief and intimacy. I'm restraining myself mightily from moving into my son and DIL's apartment and living in the nursery. LOL I'll get to see all of my own family at Christmas Eve...and I love that...look forward to it. No change for Dad...sounds like he's sleeping a lot, not taking walks...had a doc appt he didn't tell me about (nor did my sister)...so I really don't know about how he's feeling...I plan on finding out in person. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Thank you for asking and caring and being here, SS. LA
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LA, I've been thinking so much about you and your dad and your new grand-baby. I'm glad that you're going down to spend some time with him. And I can just imagine you camped out in the baby's nursery. I'm holding you to your promise to do the triathlon with me this year .... I'm going to start working up to it early this time -- in January. Wanna cyber-train with me? It's my New Year's resolution. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> http://danskin.com/triathlon.html-AmI.
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SS, Hope you see this. Thank you for asking about me. I thought this thread was appropriate...has AmI's request to run the triathalon with her...and we did. Mission Accomplished. She's as amazing and wonderful in person, btw. So is her family. So, that's news. I was thinking about you, SS, eight days ago...I really was. I've been grieving my mother in fits and starts (one of her old expressions I took to mean, erratically on and off)...and I thought it was this time last year, which was hitting me hardest, when I did the unthinkable. Since you asked and I remembered...having pulled up this thread...well, I am off by a whole month. Feels like a relief. And a little fantasy-leaning...because recently I've been allowing myself to play the what-if game (from decades of permissions)...where I roll back time to Christmas of 2005 and my family flies down to Houston, stays at a local hotel, rents a car (entire package of course), and hopes to get an invite to Christmas for a couple of hours...and in the mean time, plays together, anyway. I didn't do it, SS. Last chance at family Christmas and there I went again, into little darn girlhood, where because they take back the invite, I don't do my own thing, from my own reasons...holding true to my boundaries. Didn't occur to me at the time it was an option...only in hindsight. So, the grieving continues. My relationship with my father is all new, btw. He calls, emails...even came out for my MS's college graduation. He got to meet his great-granddaughter. I'm really blessed. Incredibly. So different, all this... And we're all together...my family. We're healthy...growing, staying connected (with interruptions), and right here, right now. Got to take all my sons (and DIL and GD) to Harry Potter at the drive-in. Didn't realize it was my OS's first drive-in, ever. How 'bout that? He was in Iraq when we first took the boys. Very blessed. Funny thing happened on the day of the triathalon...my home computer died, instead of me. My internal harddrive took quite a carthasis, though. The medal says, "The woman who starts this race is not the one who finishes it." I will attest to that in all my metaphorical glory...and yeah, I'll blush deeply, if they were referring to those relay teams. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I still seek your soothing words, your keen clarity and your generous spirit, SS. I learned from other bumps in the road, though, here on MB...and those have been huge for me. I'm still at it...this growing and knowing experience. Glad you're here, also. You could share how all your kids are doing...where was your last three day get away with your loving wife...and when your triathalon is scheduled...if you please. LA
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Bumping for SS...... And very glad that it was the computer that crashed on tri-day, and not YOU! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> YOU did awesome!!! Now I have to wipe the water off my computer screen that I spit there when I finally got the relay team comment. I don't think I've actually laughed out loud THAT hard at something on the computer in a looooong time!! You are way too witty. -A
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