Thursday, October 23, 2008

My mother

Today we bid farewell to Granny Babs...





I know we'll be fine without her but it sure was nice having her around. Theo will miss their daily (or twice daily) trips to the park; Ida will miss being rocked and held each evening; and I will miss the company, conversation, clean house, magically disappearing laundry piles, hot meals, admonitions to "take it easy," and, best of all, daily (or twice daily) naps.

Hooray for having a great mother. I am so blessed. Thanks, Mom!! See you in about 6 weeks!

8 comments:

grannybabs said...

You are so kind - it's a real treat for me to go and be with my kids when a new baby is born!!

A miss you already!! (I'd much rather do laundry, fix meals, rock a baby and take Theo to the park than go back to the classroom.)

However, usually I just go back, and it seems like I've never been away and I adjust!!

But thanks for the memories!!

Eliza said...

I am laughing at that last picture because it looks like we posed it...rest assured that we didn't. I asked Matt to take a picture of us and before we did the posed one, he snuck one of us hugging.

Just to clarify.

Katie said...

Your mom is great! I could spend days just talking to her and listening to what she has to say.

Nicole said...

I know that airport!

Talai said...

Oh boy, I remember having to say bye to my mom. I thought my heart would break in half. I was so sad to see her go and I wondered if I could really do it on my own. Moms are so wonderful. They never stop caring for us.

bonny with a Y said...

it was so important to me to have mom come and stay after each of my children - and every time she left i cried.

and it's funny because before ara was born i thought, "oh it's fine if mom doesn't come, i've been around plenty of babies" - how wrong i was. not just for the physical and emotional support she brought, but also because i feel it is so important to have that time to revisit traditions and stories that are important to our family.

hanner said...

Maybe we'll have a baby so Mom will come.

Phoebe said...

I think that is why we keep having them!

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