What is a Grandma???

This is dedicated to my grandchildren, to whom I love very much!

A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes. She is someone you can tell your secrets and worries to, and she hopes and prays that all your dreams come true. She always loves you, no matter what. She can see past temper tantrums and bad moods, and makes it clear that they don't affect how precious you are to her. She is an encouraging word and a tender touch. She is full of proud smiles. She is the one person in the world who loves you with all her heart, who remembers the child you were and cherishes the person you've become.

Grandmothers Defined

I thought I had forgotten how to hold a baby ~ but my arms remember.
Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.
Grandmas give you the cherry off the top.
It is remarkable how, overnight, a quiet mature lady can learn to sit cross-legged on the floor and play a tin drum, quack like a duck, sing all the verses of The Twelve Days Of Christmas, make paper flowers, draw pigs, and sew on the ears of severely-injured teddy bears.
Grandmas don't just say "that's nice" - they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money's worth out of grandmas.
Those gasps of astonishment, those shrieks of pleasure, those sighs of delight, lost long ago when your children grew wise and worldly ~ are suddenly given back to you by your grandchildren. What seems to be the same small hands clutch yours, dragging you from one excitement to another ~ "Look! Oh, look! Come ON!"
Grandmas bring flowers when your pet dies...and sit and cry with you.
All grandmothers like letters. Even if they just consist of a squiggle and a dirty finger mark.
Grandmothers are good at sitting on the floor to play, but they can be terribly difficult to get upright again.

Blogs

Ok, so it has been brought to my attention that it is great that I know what a blog is. I have two of them and if you want to count myspace then I have three, It's really hard for me to write in them because I am a stay at home Yorkie mommy. My life is not exciting, in fact it is quite dull. I don't go out much. So I guess I could start off by telling you about where I live. That would be the White Mountians of Arizona. That is Eastern Arizona. Up in all the Ponderosa Pines. It is a very small community but I absolutly love it here. The population her is about 25,000 in the summer and only half that in the winter. There are only two major roads here. The closest freeway is 45 miles from here. How wonderful is that?

We have six beautiful grandchildren. All of which are close to the same ages. We have two that are six, two that are eight and one that is 15 and one that is 18. Actually one will be six next month and one will be eight next month. All of which are very special to us. We also have sort of adopted three little girls here. One will be 15 tomorrow, one is 10 and one is 4. The 4 year old spends alot of time with us. Usually from Tues though Fri. I work with her on her letters to help get her ready for school.. She is doing pretty good. We will start her numbers soon.

We have three yorkies. Shakespere who is 7 and loves to play ball and rock. He re-arranges my large rocks in the yard every chance he gets. The next one is Annie who is about 13. She doesn't do much as she is pretty old now. She is definately a momma's girl. She follows me everywhere. It's a little hard for her now as she is pretty much blind now but she can sniff me out in a crowd with little problem. Then there is Winslow and he is about 10 months old. He is just plain funny. My husband calls him bobble head as his head is always moving. I put in our name about four years ago at the pound and this past Sept. the call came in. The puppy was from Winslow, Az. and we all referred to him as the Winslow puppy and so it stuck.