Remember our humble beginnings....

[LisasMom]

Remember this grannies, GITs and wannabees??

Your Angel

Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. The child asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow. How am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"

God replied, "Among the angels, I'll choose one for you. Your Angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you."

The child further inquired, "But tell me God, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy."

God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you every day. And you will feel your angel's love and feel very happy."

Again the child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?"

God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."

"I've heard that on earth there are bad people. Who will protect me?"

God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking its life."

At that moment there was much peace in heaven, but the voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name."

"Her name is not important. You will simply call her GRANDMA."


Submitted by Joyce Rolf

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As part of our big Granny Birthday Bash, let's remember our humble beginnings as one of the bestest ever Granny groups in the whole world! There is no other group like ours and we should celebrate! Big time!!

So, thank you so much Miss Kaybelles for starting the ball rolling that picked up so many of us along the way - through laughs and tears and everything in between!!

Let's share here in this thread a wonderful story relating to Kay's original post -- whether it be about your own Special Grama, yourself as a Special Grama or one of your Special Grandmonkeys or fur-babies. Just about anything will do - we're all suckers for good leaking stories! You can tell us the story here or you can scrap it to the Granny Gallery and link back here. Either way, make sure your post shows up in this thread so Carolyn can pass out a few random draw prizes!! This will go up to the day of the big bash. Enter as often as you want.

So get out the hankies and tissues, and let's start leaking!!

[evergreen100]

Subscribing to this thread so I can stickybeak on what everyone else writes whilst thinking of something to write myself:)

[bethliz]

well if you make me laugh..i will leak from all sorts of different places...lol..that is what comes of a bladder made in taiwan...(nothing ill meant by that remark if anybody lives in taiwan)...yeah i will post here to...to remind me to post later...lol....cheers liz

[LisasMom]

Well, I can start. I remember very well having this conversation with God. I was really scared to leave Him and come to the *Big, bad world*. And even though He didn't tell me my grama's name, I soon learned that it was Elsie. Everything He said about her was TRUE!!! She was the most beautiful angel and such love and patience, it just never ran out, but kept flowing over me every day! As I grew up, her love and patience grew up with me also and changed in ways that always let me know how special I was to her - even when I was no longer a little babe.

I've told y'all many stories and have scrapped many pages of my Grama Elsie so I won't say one specific thing here again. But one of the greatest things that I ever learned was from her. You know how they say "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"? Well, I think *perfection* is too. She taught me by example to look past the earthly flaws and look right to the perfection in a person. Sometimes its hard; sometimes its impossible. But I try and it is getting easier with practice and age.

Sometimes it is extremely easy too. I look at my kids and little Jakey and I see how *perfect* they are. My own perfect little gifts from God! I can see their flaws certainly and deal with those but I can also see *through* them to the bright, shining soul God sent to me and the rest of the lucky world!

So, I was blessed beyond measure with my own Angel-Grama as a tiny baby and I continue to be blessed with my own special children and *grandmonkey*. And even though little Jakey is not mine my blood, he IS mine!

[LisasMom]

I'm sure y'all remember this layout from last year (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=183453&ppuser=52413), but thought I would link it again for the new grannies and GITs. Its my little Jakey. I have babysat him since he was 2 months old. He's now 3 and a half. Poor little guy was born with no Grama!!! And at the time he came into my life, I had no grandbabies - still don't, and won't for quite some time. But God must have found something to match us up cuz he is mine now and I'm his Nana! We were made for each other!

[kaybutler@mweb.]

Waaaahhhh !!!! Vicki !!!! How beautiful ! Got me all choked up and snorting away here !! Luv Ya !!!!

[GrandmaCrys]

Beautiful, Vicki; you've set a pretty high standard for stories! Bless you and your Grama Elsie!

[dagwood]

just incase you grannies,wannabees and GIT's have not seen the follow up to Kay lovely poem...and to mark my spot on this thread

Grandma’s Missing

The computer swallowed Grandma.
Yes honestly, it’s true
She pressed ‘control’ and ‘enter’
And disappeared from view.

It devoured her completely,
The thought just makes me squirm.
She must have caught a virus,
Or been eaten by a worm.

I’ve searched through the recycle bin
And files of every kind;
I’ve even used the Internet,
But nothing did I find.

In desperation, I asked Jeeves
My searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative,
Not a thing was found ‘online’.

So, if inside your ‘inbox’,
My grandma you should see,
PLease ‘copy’, ‘scan’, and ‘paste’ her
And send her back to me!

[evergreen100]

And we did a fun challenge on the basis of this funny verse too:)

[LisasMom]

Wow Daggs, that's not the one that showed up in my email! I liked that one too! They both are cute as the *Grandma got run over by a reindeer* song!

[kaybutler@mweb.]

I remember Dagg's LO of this one !! I was sooo impressed !!! That was waaay back when we first "met" her..wow!! That does seem ages ago !! We have'nt grown-up a single bit since then !!!!

[dagwood]

A follow up !!!

Please do not worry!
Your Grandma's not finished yet.
We found her in our computer
While surfing on the net.

With other “silver” surfers
Over 50 just like me,
She's been searching in the web
For her long lost family tree.

She's peering through the screen at us,
She's locked - could not get out.
With cries of desperation,
She then began to shout.

"F1, F1, F1," she called.
Was this a cry for help?
So, pressing all the keys,
I then let out a yelp.

"She's free," I said.
“I wonder where she went.”
And, looking in my "Outbox",
I saw where she'd been sent.

So look inside your "Inbox",
She should be there today.
She promised to be more careful
Next time she goes out to play.

[GrandmaCrys]

I have never heard these poems before, Daggs; thanks for sharing!

Now...I have someone who would like to talk to you all!...............

[GrandmaCrys]

Hi, Everbody! This is Tristan and GrandmaScrap is my grandma (although I have to share her!:) ). You might call her that, or GrannyScrap or Crys, but I call her "Grandma Crys" and I just hafta tell ya what she did the other day.

You guys know lots about me, but did you know I love all action heroes, and Spiderman best of all? I really, really do! Jammies, shirts, toofbrushes, toofpaste, socks, shoes, slippers, sheets and pillacases, books, movies, games, toys, action figgers. I've got 'em all!

And did you know Grandma Crys reads the TV Guide from cover to cover each week. (She don't watch TV, 'cause she's talkin and playin and scrappin wif you mostly. Sometimes she watches, though, when she's at my house. We watch Chicken Yiddow 'cause Rukey likes it and Bob the Builder and uver stuff.)

Well, she'd been readin her TV book and saw that a new Spiderman cartoon was starting on...on...ummmmm...on... you know...that day I don't go to school or Lari's or nowhere...

Right before Spidey started on TV, Grandma Crys called my mommy on the fone and ast her if our TV gets some channel I don't know it's name. And Mommy said "yes" and Grandma Crys told her all about the new show and Mommy quick switched the channel and tole me "Grandma Crys is on the phone to tell ya there's a new Spiderman show on TV!"

QUICK! I jumped on the couch and watched. It was great!!! Mommy told Grandma Crys I had the biggest smile on my face she had ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I didn't have time to talk to Grandma Crys, 'cause I hadda watch for the bad guys...but isn't she the greatest??? )

Bye

[LisasMom]

She sure is the bestest-est-est ever Tristan!!! http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd317/JakesNana/Hugs/hug44.gif

Thanks for sharing her with us buddy!

[evergreen100]

I agree with you Tristan, Grannyscrap is the greatest and I love your story:). (my little grandsons love super heroes, especially spider man too:))

[AliceAMattison]

Tristan, you are so right. Your Grannyscrap is a very special lady. My grandson, Jacob, also likes super heroes especially Spiderman.

[dagwood]

Tristan, thats what grannies are all about, there just the best!!!

[Christine]

Well not a granny, but I still have a granny living, not too far from Carma, actually. :lol: The 2 things that I always remember when I think about her: first she was the one that she was the one that taught me how to make raspberry freezer jam and second, she does the sweetest sounding, "bye bye" when she gets off the phone. :D

[Christine]

Tristan, you are so lucky to have your wonderful GrannyScrap. :yes:

[RobbieR]

My Mother is always telling everyone how I loved the song "Old Shep" when I was little and always asked her to sing it. She of course would cry and could barely sing the song. On my birthday last year, when I answered the phone she was singing that song. LOL! Well I saw it on the internet the other day, It had the music and they lyrics so I sang in to my 3 year old DGD. She of course ask every question in the book, why is Shep dying, on and on. My DD called the next day to say that DGD was singing the song. I said not possible I only sang it once; to which she replied " Oh, she has her own version. She was singing "Old Shep was a friend of mine; he didn't live for a very long time." LOL! Kids are so funny! Here are the words for those of you that don't know the song.

When I was a lad
And old Shep was a pup
Over hills and meadows we'd stray
Just a boy and his dog
We were both full of fun
We grew up together that way

I remember the time at the old swimmin' hold
When I would have drowned beyond doubt
But old Shep was right there
To the rescue he came
He jumped in and then pulled me out

As the years fast did roll
Old Shep he grew old
His eyes were fast growing dim
And one day the doctor looked at me and said
I can do no more for him Jim

With hands that were trembling
I picked up my gun
And aimed it at Shep's faithful head
I just couldn't do it
I wanted to run
I wish they would shoot me instead

He came to my side
And looked up at me
And laid his old head on my knee
I had lost the best friend that a man ever had
I cried so I scarcely could see

Old Shep he has gone
Where the good doggies go
And no more with old Shep will I roam
But if dogs have a heaven
There's one thing I know
Old Shep has a wonderful home

My DGD sure cut to the chase on her version.

[jennilynn10]

I did not know my Great-Grandmother Harriet, but she is a such a model of strength and endurance that I think of her often. Her life was filled with tragedy, and yet she preserved. When she was a teenager, she was sent to live and work on the farm of aunt and uncle. One terrible day, the farm-hand murdered her aunt and uncle. My grandmother was kidnapped by the man, but luckily the authorities caught up to them and she was rescued. (The man was later executed at Sing Sing). She survived 2 wars. She had 3 children, but sadly one passed away at the age of 1 1/2.

Despite all of this, my Great-Grandmother was full of love and kindness. She and my mother were very close. They had a very special bond. Sometimes, when I am feeling sorry for myself, I think of my Great-grandma and all that she was. She is an inspiration to me, and I feel that she is also my Guardian Angel.

[GrandmaCrys]

Awwwwww, Jenni, what love you have for and strength you gather from an obviously wonderful woman you never met! Think of the awesome meeting you'll have in heaven some day. (hopefully way, way in the future! :))

[HeatherL]

My maternal grandmother died well before I was born. My paternal grandmother lived in Scotland so I saw her only a few times. My step grandmother married my mother's father and was 25 years younger than him. She never had children of her own but mothered all of us in so many special ways. She taught us about nature specifically about birds and flowers. She was an awesome cook and never hesitated to let us help in the kitchen. She taught me how to knit and play cards. She was always up early and you often woke to wonderful smells coming from the kitchen. She was always available for a chat or a hug. She was an amazing woman and I miss her a lot. I hope some day I will measure up to her as a grandma.

[dagwood]

once we get past the pearly gates, its going to be sooooo great to see our grannies again, they hold such special places in our hearts!!!!