Life as a long distance grandma.

January 8,2008
This is my first attempt at blogging and creating a blogging site. My daughter uses blogging a lot to maintain connections with family and friends so I decided I should try my hand at it. The reason for my attempt is to keep connection with my only grandson who is a world away literally. I was able to live in the same county as he did for about 6 months and it was so much fun. Living so far away is a bummer and I did not move. I hear some friends talk about having to babysit their grandchildren all the time. I would give almost almost anything for that opportunity. This summer I will get to spend about a month with my daughter and her small family. I can hardly wait.

Being a long distance grandma means looking forward to those minutes on the web cam.. @ usually sings the abc's to me and tells me about something that has impressed him at the minute.

He always has a " Hi Grandma I love YOU" .

I am always looking for new pictures on the snapfish account.




I collect stories to tell my friends about my grandson's newest experience in a strange world.

The first year they were overseas I use to video tape myself reading books to him. I have since realized that I need to dress up as ELmo and dance around my living room. I often get Pierre the cat on my lap so @ can see him. @ loves to see Pierre but Pierre is not all that happy about it.

I mail lots of little packages to strange sounding places .

I spend lots of evenings thinking about the little boy and remembering the things we did together. I hope some day he will remember some of those same things.

Spending lots of time just being happy to have him in my life how ever.