Babies, Daughters, Fathers, and Grandfathers.

[curious2c]

Well...as a few of you may know...I am very very soon to be a grandfather. This whole last nine months has been...a learning experience for me. At first, the knowledge that my daughter was pregnant...well...proof that she was having sex...OMG. Didn't need to know this.

Then as the stomach grows, her attitudes and changes she goes through...Reminded me of when her mother was pregnant with her and later her brothers.

Now...final stages of pregnancy, she goes in to be induced tomorrow. I have been ambivelant about all of this because it has seemed...surreal...until tomorrow.

Tomorrow, if things go right, I will become a grandfather. That one thing that I kinda like and kinda hate. Like it because I get to spoil a baby. Watch him grow up. Get to take him on rides on the (hopefully finished and ready to ride soon) Harley/custom bike. I am looking forward to that.

Hate it because there is no going back now. I am being shown my age and how much that I intended to get done or even to try and do, and haven't done. Knowing that my daughter is single, and may be back with the father of the baby, but no real signs of a permanent relationship. (something that I find to be pretty important for a child to have...stablity.)

when I go back to work in a week, I will have to have about a hundred cigars, and some pictures of the new addition to my family. Gray hairs begining to show up faster and faster. (I have that 'distiguished' thing going on, you know...temple gray, top dark still.)

How did I get to be so old, when did it happen? What fucking hill? Aughghghghghgh!!!!!

Whew! feel a bit better now...shoulders were getting a bit hard to hold up there for a minute.

Anyway...Tomorrow I become a GRANDPA, or GRAMPS, or GRANDFATHER, or GRANDDAD, or POPPA or what ever the little tyke decides to call me. (I owuld prefer Dave...but everyone in my immediate family is shocked at that. Go figure...My name isn't good enough for the little guy to call me by?

 

[A Desert Rose]

You have it more figured out than you likely think you do, doll.

Very nice post, Dave.

 

[Nora]

C2C, there's got to be something good about aging. The only thing I can think of right now are grandbabies. =)

Well, for guys there's that whole "young chicks who dig geezers" thing. That's gotta be a bonus. You just became *MORE* attractive to the barely-post-pubescent set.

Congratulations to your family and best wishes to your daughter. She's a lucky woman to have a great dad like yourself behind her.

 

[cybergirly]

*smile* Congratulations!!!

 

[Guest]

Congratulations! It couldn't happen to a nicer Grampaw....

....and who said ~ just because you've earned that title, you're "old"? It's all in the mind, baby.

 

[Debbie]

Congratulations. I am a Grandparent to a 2 yr old and a 5 week old. At 33. <snicker> It's not bad at all.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I would like to point out, babies are babe magnets!! I'm sure you'll learn this all very soon!

Congratulations on your new addition, and on your new role.

 

[curious2c]

Thank you A Desert Rose...Your words are tonic to my eyes.

Nora...thank you also...um...don't let my wife know about that younger woman thing...heh heh I have enough gray hairs.

Wow, thank you Cybergirly...those roses are sweet smelling!

GP...Gandpaw...hmm...sorry, I still like Dave best. heh heh...as to the mind thing...That is why I come to lit in the first place.

debbiexxx...YOU'RE a grandma? WOW. Those are some lucky grandkids for sure. Thanks to you also.

I have to run...errands to do... I will be back later tonight though. Thanks to you all. I guess I am feeling a bit better now. (Hmmm...where do I find these young post pubescent girls at?) j/k

 

[Image]

Congratulations!

Thanks for sharing all that with us. That's part of what I like here...
When we were young time didn't pass quick enough. Now it just seems like the other day and you wonder where it all went. But hopefully with age comes wisdom and I myself wouldn't go back and do anything different...

Hoping tomorrow is a magickal event for everyone!

 

[curious2c]

I would like to point out, babies are babe magnets!! I'm sure you'll learn this all very soon!

Congratulations on your new addition, and on your new role.

Thank you Goddess emi...babe magnets huh? heh heh I can see that grandpa and grandson are going to be inseperable now for sure. Harley and grandkid, why...I'll be irresisitable...

 

[curious2c]

Re: Congratulations!

Thanks for sharing all that with us. That's part of what I like here...
When we were young time didn't pass quick enough. Now it just seems like the other day and you wonder where it all went. But hopefully with age comes wisdom and I myself wouldn't go back and do anything different...

Hoping tomorrow is a magickal event for everyone!

Thanks Image...I am sure it will be very magikal day tomorrow.

 

[intrigued]

I don't believe you could've expressed yourself any better than you did, this is a very touching read.
I can relate to many of your feelings, this post reminds me of what my Dad said to me, how he expressed what it meant for him, and how much my first child changed our lives.
So many beautiful things are happening for you, just sit back and soak it all up, these are times you'll always treasure.

You know you've still got it.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Thank you Goddess emi...babe magnets huh? heh heh I can see that grandpa and grandson are going to be inseperable now for sure. Harley and grandkid, why...I'll be irresisitable...

As if you aren't already?

 

[curious2c]

I don't believe you could've expressed yourself any better than you did, this is a very touching read.
I can relate to many of your feelings, this post reminds me of what my Dad said to me, how he expressed what it meant for him, and how much my first child changed our lives.
So many beautiful things are happening for you, just sit back and soak it all up, these are times you'll always treasure.

You know you've still got it.

Thank you Intrigued. You are so right too...I was just thinking back to how my dad looked when my sisters first was born and then years later, when our first was born (the very same daughter as a matter of fact) NOW I have some idea of what went through his head then.

 

[curious2c]

As if you aren't already?

Ummm...I don't know about that...heh...um...thanks.

 

[curious2c]

Jesus H Christ! Wife runs up to me...quick...we gotta go!

Run to the car, caughter gets in, wife in back seat...then they start to laugh!


JUST TESTING hahahahahaha!



FUCK ME! MY heart is going ten thousand miles an hour and we are just 'TESTING?


Now they are wondering why I am sooooo pissed.


Really...I am over it...but they got me...good.

 

[intrigued]

Jesus H Christ! Wife runs up to me...quick...we gotta go!

Run to the car, caughter gets in, wife in back seat...then they start to laugh!


JUST TESTING hahahahahaha!



FUCK ME! MY heart is going ten thousand miles an hour and we are just 'TESTING?


Now they are wondering why I am sooooo pissed.


Really...I am over it...but they got me...good.

You're not one of those that faints easy, are you?

 

[littlekateyes]

Congratulations I am sure you will be the best at being a grandparent.

 

[curious2c]

You're not one of those that faints easy, are you?

No...they just set me up pretty well...then pulled my chain. I was ready to drive away as they started to laugh...knowing that something was up I stopped. Then they sprung the trap. Damn...I didn't realize how wound up I was getting.

My heart is back down to half above normal now. They really got me going. I thought her water had broke the way they were acting.

"Hurry...her contractions are six minutes apart."

I should have known that was not the case. Pretty sure I would have seen that earlier.

 

[curious2c]

Congratulations I am sure you will be the best at being a grandparent.

Thanks LKE...much appreaciated.

Wait until I begin to spoil him...heh heh...his mom will love me even more. (I do have to be careful...I will want to take him to Sturgis someday...mom will have to approve.)

 

[intrigued]

No...they just set me up pretty well...then pulled my chain. I was ready to drive away as they started to laugh...knowing that something was up I stopped. Then they sprung the trap. Damn...I didn't realize how wound up I was getting.

My heart is back down to half above normal now. They really got me going. I thought her water had broke the way they were acting.

"Hurry...her contractions are six minutes apart."

I should have known that was not the case. Pretty sure I would have seen that earlier.

Poor thing, do you think you'll be able to sleep at all tonight?

Even if her contractions were 6 minutes apart, for a first born, theres usually still plenty of time. Babies do what they want to do, so try to relax a bit.

What time will she be induced?

Mine was so easy, I laughed during the entire delivery. The only problem I had was with the epidural, it was such a good one that I had no desire at all to push. Its very hard to push when you don't feel the need to.

 

[littlekateyes]

Thanks LKE...much appreaciated.

Wait until I begin to spoil him...heh heh...his mom will love me even more. (I do have to be careful...I will want to take him to Sturgis someday...mom will have to approve.)

I am sure you will be great, and he will love it. (Mom might not approve, but she will come around.)

 

[curious2c]

Poor thing, do you think you'll be able to sleep at all tonight?

Even if her contractions were 6 minutes apart, for a first born, theres usually still plenty of time. Babies do what they want to do, so try to relax a bit.

What time will she be induced?

Mine was so easy, I laughed during the entire delivery. The only problem I had was with the epidural, it was such a good one that I had no desire at all to push. Its very hard to push when you don't feel the need to.

9 A.M. and I hope it works...this is getting to this old guy. I have already been through three of my own...C-sections each time...this is all new for me since the Daughter is shooting for natural childbirth. At least I don't have to be in the delivery room...were it my wife...that would be different...but a daughter shouldn't have 'dad' in the room with 'dad' if you know what I mean.

 

[curious2c]

I am sure you will be great, and he will love it. (Mom might not approve, but she will come around.)

I still want him to call me Dave though...I will have to work on that. I just don't feel like a 'grand' anything. That was for my father or his father. Not me.

 

[intrigued]

9 A.M. and I hope it works...this is getting to this old guy. I have already been through three of my own...C-sections each time...this is all new for me since the Daughter is shooting for natural childbirth. At least I don't have to be in the delivery room...were it my wife...that would be different...but a daughter shouldn't have 'dad' in the room with 'dad' if you know what I mean.

Well, I admire any woman that faces being induced, yet still opts for natural. Wowza! I will be thinking of her and wishing for the very best delivery, and that it goes quickly for her.

Congrats, you gramps to be!