Monday, November 16, 2009

The Greatest Gift

I have just come to a realization that the greatest gift a grown child can give a parent, is a grandchild. Breanne and her fiance Marc had a baby girl last Monday, November 9th @ 1:58 pm. Lyla Denise Marie weighed in at a whopping 6lbs. 5oz; 19" long and was born with very little, but visible blonde hair. She is beatiful, but then what wouldn't any proud grandparent say. I have pictures to prove it! The family is doing great and all of them have adjusted to this new little one in their home and even Grandpa Jack has adjusted. He was never one to want to go over lots to visit little ones, but admitted to me that he was in need of a "Lyla" fix so we were over on Saturday and he had plenty of time to hold her and be amazed at such a small treasure. We believe that all babies are God's gift to us after rearing our children. We can spoil them; we can teach them about life; we can give them sweets; we can buy them things; and best of all we can teach them about God. They are given to us unconditionally and yet we very protective of them, even though they don't live with us or near us. God has truly blessed us last week. Now we await two more blessings as Todd & Michelle and Nicole & Cecil wait for the births of their sons any day now. God is good.

1 comment:

erinlo said...

And the best thing.....you can spoil them rotten and sugar them up and then send them home!!! In all seriousness, what a blessing that you get to have grandchildren living near you! Your grandchildren will love and appreciate having a relationship with their grandparents and your kids will LOVE having free babysitting! (I get a little jealous of families who live close to eachother sometimes!) Congratulations on all your babies- the ones that are here and the ones that are on the way.