Mother to Grandmother

This morning I woke up. My first grandchild has entered the world. Overnight I had morphed from Mother to Grandmother, and it didn’t hurt a bit, haha…

Sooo, I think to myself, do I take up knitting

What to do next?

I feel like I need to do something “Grammery” (is that even a word?).

I could finish that scarf I started 40 years ago? The one for a football team I haven’t supported for at least 35 years!?

Alas, I filed it away in my ‘too hard’ and ‘too boring’ drawer. “Knit one, pearl one, and drop a stitch”? What the hell does that mean?! Thank God for Target and K-Mart!

I’ve finally reached that age…you know, the age where you often start a sentence with the phrase, “In the old days.”

Believe me, when I think of things I did 30 years ago (which was back in my 20’s), I just think OMG I lived in the old days before so many bloody things that are just everyday things now. Internet, mobile phones, Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, social media and bloody Siri!

Scary!!!!

What did I learn?

Well, it gets very real now. Transitioning from mother to grandmother.

This is where I find out how well I had parented my own children.
Because I will learn what they will choose to take on as parents themselves and what they will file in the “I’m not putting my kids through that” department?

It’s a case of the best I could achieve with the circumstances at the time.
I can’t say the journey was easy but I got through it.

Now that I am older, I find they are teaching me lots of things I didn’t even think about!

I have already learned a great deal during my grandbabies’ incubation.
The world is a very different place now with all of the technology available (that’s another story itself).

I had no clue about so much of the information my daughter passed on to me during her pregnancy.

In my day, I became pregnant and I ate lots of cake. I had a baby or three and got rid of the evidence. The weight, because I had eaten all the cake. Then carried on parenting.

So now I will sit back and observe. And no doubt I will learn some new stuff. Of that I am sure.

Who’d have thunk it…..LOL!