Grannyhood

[lily]

I have just read and enjoyed "No, I don't want to join a book club", feeling very much in tune with the new granny bits. I had no desire to be a granny + a horror of having to help rear any such offspring. Well he is now 2 months old and I have turned into the original doting grandma, I was sitting in our camper at a service station on the way home last weekend reading the bit about granny boring everyone with how clever her grandson when 3 new photos arrived on my phone. As my husband re-appeared with papers etc from the shop, I was squeaking with excitement, babbling like an idiot that I had received 3 new pics. A lovely read for those of slightly mature years!

[eleanor2]

join the club lily.book sounds funny.

[gothfairy]

I keep looking at the book, wondering should I get it... now I think I will. I am about to be a doting grandmother... already I have a copy of the scan from five months on my desk, and next weekend my younger son and his partner are having a special scan, one of these 3D types, where they are given a DVD and four stills, and guess who's getting one of the stills? I don't intend to be an interfering, or overly-doting granny though.. we will see the new little family about once every three weeks, just enough space between visits for this granny's visits to be seen as special, unlike the other who lives only a short walk away and so who will be very involved. Which leads me to ask of other grannies.... those of you who don't see the child all the time, are you envious of the grandparent who does, and do you have a preference as to what you will be called. Nanny, Nanna, or Granny....or maybe an alternative. I love the Welsh word for Granny myself.

[eleanor2]

i have one grandson i see all the time and two grandsons in France. i love seeing the one who lives close.he has his own bedroom and my best room looks like a toyroom. i miss my two in france so much.i email and ring.little un will speak on the phone to me for over half an hour.he has just started school so i have to start learning french.i send them stories and poems.little gifts.so we make it fun.daughter is coming to stay for two weeks soon. before they were born i was like other not yet nannies.i didn't have a clue how much i would love my grandchildren. so watch out.. katelb will be a granny soon. so watch out both of you.