Tomorrow I start the best job in the world - I will be watching my granddaughter full time. Well at the beginning only about seven hours a day but after daughter's training and job placement (crosses fingers) I will have her maybe up to nine hours a day. I truly cannot wait. i've been very hands on (see her/them almost every day) and she is an easy happy baby. She's pretty much perfect because I'm the grandma but I do remember that that babies are work and I'm not use to doing it all day/every day but at the end of the day the darling still goes home to her mom and dad and I can drop I mean be mom and wife lol. I'm a bit embarassed to say that I will also be getting paid to do this(by the state because of daughter's situation). I mean, I have been on unemployment for many many months and we are not independently wealthy and someone would be watching the baby anyway, so why not someone who will love her and take great care of her? (Daughter and i are trying to be very clear on daughter's wishes so there will not be problems in differences of childrearing) At three and a half months she still needs someone right there for her giving her one on one attention and love and before someone like Rags uses the word 'spoil' please know that I am the one who is going to have to teach her to sleep in a crib and not in a swing or on a person, though I do have a swing myself and I took back the rocking chair because I am not too old I mean removed from my own experiences that I forget that sometimes you will try almost anything to sooth a babe or get some, I mean them, to sleep. It's strangely wonderful to have a baby truly back in my life, as I no longer have a teenager after a few more days, as one child turns twenty and the other is twelve. Master Ubar, thank you for the reality check to this proud grandmother as the baby will indeed grow to a trying two year old and terrible three year old. I am sure to be covered in the wonderful scent of ode de soy formula amongst other things yet I feel truly blessed to be able to spend these precious young months with her. They go by so fast (and everyone tells you that but you rarely realize it as it's happening) and being a grandmother somehow makes you want to stop and cherish them. As a mom I was always so tired and busy and just tyring to get thru the day and before you knew it, the baby was a toddler than a child then a tween and oh stop it kiah *ironic laugh*. I need to get to bed so I am as ready as I can be. *smiles*. I wish you all hope and happiness.........kiah{MTC}
