Being Grandma

Posted on March 05, 2007 at 09:24 AM

What a busy weekend!


Saturday I babysat for Daughter1. Grand-daughter3 is now 6 weeks old and both Daughter1 and her DH were suffering from cabin fever. This past 6 weeks has been hard work for them both - Daughter1 had a C section that became infected almost immediately. It took 5 weeks and 5 different lots of antibiotics to finally clear it. Add to that grand-daughter3 appears to be lactose intolerant (like her big sister) and seems to get colicky at the drop of the hat. They needed some time to themselves. I didn't mind babysitting. I was looking forward to spending time with both grandchildren. Grand-daughter1 and I were going to spend some time knitting as long as grand-daughter3 let us. Which she did. They were both very well behaved in fact. I had the pleasure of watching Spongebob Squarepants with Grand-daughter1 and Grand-daughter3 soon fell asleep. Does Spongebob squarepants have a point at all? I mean does an episode actually have a storyline as it all seemed very random to me. Grand-daughter1 thought it was hilarious but I had trouble understanding it. I'm obviously just too old.


On the way home I caught the lunar eclipse. It was beautiful and the skies kindly stayed clear so we could catch it all.


Yesterday we had Daughter3 and Grandson2 over for the afternoon. Grandson2 is at the babbling stage punctuated occasionally with a real word. He's just adorable. He brought a couple of his favourite toys with him (two train engines) and sat chatting away to himself as he played with them on the coffee table. Every now and then we'd hear "no way!" or "oh wow!" which had us all giggling. He obviously listens to his mum when she's on the phone as these are two of her favourite sayings. Not too much running around after him either. He's 19 months old now and his attention span is increasing. He must have spent a good 45 minutes to an hour with us yesterday being artistic on some pieces of paper. I've kept them, of course, and will pin them up on my wall.


I'm paying for it all today. I'm very sore and feel out of energy. That's to be expected, I suppose. Himself tells me it doesn't matter and to have a lazy day today. I should really do the ironing but the lazy day is much more appealing. maybe I'll do the ironing this afternoon. After several cups of rejuvenating tea :)

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Comments

Jenger at March 5, 2007 02:02 PM

I agree with Himself. This is is a whole lot easier for me to tell you then to take the advice myself. ;-)

Susan [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 5, 2007 11:05 PM

Do you have Baby Einsteins there? If not, I will ship you some. I wish they had them when my girls were small - both granbabies have learned so much from them.

Funny my granbabies, well one of them things that Spngebob is scary and she is afraid to watch him - but no, I don't think that it does have a point.

I know the payment you are giving...I do it every time and when people ask me why I do it...its because either I enjoy my life as best I can, or I lie down and miss out on everything so I don't feel pain...gee, which would you choose?

Tami at March 6, 2007 01:19 AM

I love being around children. They are wonderful! Oh, I LOVE Spongebob. He and Patrick crack me up!

Mallard at March 7, 2007 04:03 AM

Sounds like you love spending time with your grandkids - treasure that! Yay! [stands and cheers]

Glad u caught the eclipse the other day... i missed it [being on the other side of the planet, you know... heh heh]

Cyalayta
Mal :)

Colette at March 7, 2007 03:51 PM

I can't think of a better way to spend a weekend or develop aches and pains to pay for it.

Lucky you, to have your children and grandchildren close by.

I don't think there is a point to Sponge Bob. My teenaged daughters never became interested in him as a cartoon character when he firt came out.

Hope your day is good and the tea does the trick...and remember, the ironing is very patient and will wait for you to be ready to deal with it.