Life moves along at such a remarkable speed. You turn around one day and your little girl is grown. She falls in love, gets married and in a few years becomes a mother. In turn, this bestows upon you the most incredible role of your life: Grandmother!
After that, life continues to move even faster! See the precious toddler in the photo above? The adorable one walking next to her big brother? She’s turning thirteen today. A teenager! Even as a tiny toddler, she was a runner. Now, she can run faster than her Mom and Dad and almost as fast as her brother. She is also a swimmer and swims on a competition team for the school.
Now that I have my automobile, she loves that I drive her to school and we have talks on the way. I think she was worried that I would get lost on my way back home the first time that I took her to school for she said “did you find your way back home okay, Grandmom?”
Tonight, we celebrated with cake and ice cream and she opened her presents. One of my presents to her was actually one of “my treasures”. My mother was born in 1904 and, about 1920, was given a solid gold bar pin with her initials on it in a beautiful scroll. I placed this special pin in a small heart shaped leaded glass dish. I thought it was time to give it to my granddaughter…since my mother and my granddaughter share the same initials. (She is the only grandchild with those initials.) She was very pleased and I think will treasure it and take care of it for many decades to come.
Happy Birthday, Sweet Girl!
Why do they have to grow up all too soon?
One Comment
Christine
Hi Dianne, I’m just catching up with your blog. Lovely to see your beautiful grandchildren and to know you’re having some great times with them. The pin must be beautiful, I bet she’ll treasure it. And what gorgeous ginger (as they say here in Scotland) hair she has! I’m so glad she has you nearby now.