Time is flying!

Here are our three granddaughters, Emma, Autumn and Hannah. They are absolutely the greatest joy in my life. Hannah will be four in April and she was the perfect child to introduce me to grandmotherhood. She is calm, sweet, funny and entertaining. The sweetest thing I've ever heard in my life is Hannah singing "Jesus Loves Me" and "Your Are My Sunshine".

Emma, six months old, is all of that except calm! She is ready to go and has been since she was a few weeks old. If she's awake, which is most of the time, she is eyeing things to touch, pull, push and slam. The louder, higher and faster, the better. She loves to be thrown up high, turned upside down and spun around in the swing we have in front yard. Most of Emma's smiles are followed by a yell or blown raspberry.

Autumn, who is 2 weeks younger than Emma is quite happy to be left where she is, thank you very much. She is the easiest baby to sit with and hold. She just melts into you and may even doze off. When Autumn does become unhappy however, she gives you no warning at all. She goes from content to pitifully sad in a split second. Her little puckered mouth just makes everyone in the room want to cry along with her.

Slow Start

I've had SUCH a time getting this site to cooperate (it surely wasn't anything I was doing). But now that I think it's good to go I'll be posting hopefully somewhat regularly.

It is such fun to receive updates from others and I hope you all will create and/or update your blogs for my entertainment :)

The latest news is that our son Richard has joined the National Guard and is currently in basic training at Fort Benning, GA. He will be there until late June when we'll all trek down there for his graduation. I was very tempted to send a note with him explaining to the commanding officer that he (Richard) should not do dangerous things or be treated badly. The only other person who thought this was a good idea was MY mother, his grandmother. Needless to say, he went off like a grown up and there was no note penned to his shirt.