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FReeper Canteen ~ It's A Baby Shower ~ 09 January 07
The Canteen Crew | Serving The Best Troops In The World

Posted on 01/08/2007 5:59:26 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska


 

 
Welcome To The Canteen's Online Baby Shower
for all our Grandmothers-To-Be!
Luv W -- her son David, an active duty member of the US Air Force, and his wife are expecting baby #1

Lisa Malia - 2nd grandbaby, due in August

Mountain Flower - grandbaby due in July

Laurenmarlowe - grandbaby is due at the end of January

 

 

I like to walk with grandma,
Her steps are short like mine.
She doesn't say "Now hurry up",
She always takes her time.

I like to walk with grandma,
Her eyes see things like mine do -
Wee pebbles bright, a funny cloud,
Half hidden drops of dew.

Most people have to hurry,
They don't stop and see
I'm glad that God made Grandma.
Unrushed, and young like me.

~Poem by Thena Smith~  

 

Grandmothers

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
Author Unknown

There's no place like home except Grandma's.
Author Unknown

A house needs a grandma in it.
Louisa May Alcott

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Judith Levy

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
Author Unknown

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
Christopher Morley

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
Phyllis Theroux

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance."
Author Unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while.....but our hearts forever.
Author Unknown

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
Italian Proverb

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend
Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come till the first grandchild.
Welsh Proverb

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
Fanny Fern

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
Lois Wyse

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Proverb

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
William Shakespeare

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. When a man's mother holds his child in her gladden arms he is aware of the roundness of life's cycle; of the mystic harmony of life's ways.
Christopher Morley

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Pam Brown

My grandmother always used to say, “If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?” I always remember this and it’s true. You have to start each day again—you can’t repeat what you did.
Marian Seldes

My Grandmother would say, "Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I’ve taught you to be."
Jamie Foxx

To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
Marcy DeMaree

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Erma Bombeck

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.
Author Unknown

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.
Huynh Quang Nhuong

When trying to determine the difference between a negative and positive force, ask yourself, "How will I feel when my mother and grandmother read about this in the front page of the newspaper?"
David DeNotaris

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse
 

If you want to share any advice, ideas, or thoughts with any of our Grandmothers-To-Be, please share it on the thread.

If you want to play other games, start one and we'll all play. Thank you! Have fun everyone!

 

 


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To: Soaring Feather

You are so right, I do indeed!


101 posted on 01/08/2007 7:29:35 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: laurenmarlowe; LisaMalia; MountainFlower


~GRANDPARENTS~

What a bargain grandchildren are!
I give them my loose change, And they give
me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest
thing in the world, And after two or three
hours with them, I believe it, too.

An hour with your grandchildren can make you
feel young again. Anything longer than that,
and you start to age quickly. ~Welsh Proverb

Perfect love sometimes does not come
until the first grandchild. ~Gore Vidal

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~ Ogden Nash

When grandparents enter the door,
discipline flies out the window. ~Marcy DeMare

Grandma always made you feel she had been
waiting to see just you all day
and now the day was complete. ~Lois Wyse

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren,
I'd have had them first. ~Henny Youngman

Grandchildren are God's way of
compensating us for growing old. ~Proverb

You do not really understand something
unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Dave Barry

The best baby-sitters, of course,
are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable
entrusting your baby to them for long periods,
which is why most grandparents flee to Florida . ~Alex Haley

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.

Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust
over the lives of little children. ~Joy Hargrove

One of the most powerful handclasps is
that of a new grand baby around the finger of a grandfather. ~G. Norman Collie

Grandmas hold our tiny hands
for just a little while, but our hearts forever.

GOD BLESS THE GRANDMAS...AND GRANDPAS!

102 posted on 01/08/2007 7:32:04 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Thanks for always including David!


103 posted on 01/08/2007 7:37:29 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: LUV W; LisaMalia; MountainFlower; laurenmarlowe

104 posted on 01/08/2007 7:37:50 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe

LOL! I wish it were THAT easy!


105 posted on 01/08/2007 7:39:09 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: laurenmarlowe; Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC; AZamericonnie; MountainFlower; LisaMalia; EsmeraldaA; ...

Wouldn't that be funny if we were calling one another on the same day with the good news? I hope the race is that close!

It has been a special evening!


106 posted on 01/08/2007 7:41:18 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; LUV W

Awwwwwww MA! Such a sweetie!


107 posted on 01/08/2007 7:41:57 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: HopeandGlory
Thanks, Hope, for today's Pledge. Thanks to you, AfghanMan and Penguin Girl, for your parts in helping keep all of us free and safe.


108 posted on 01/08/2007 7:44:23 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: laurenmarlowe

Have you bought lots of stuff yet?

Do you know what y'all are having?

It's gonna just kill me not to be there when Piper is actually born.

We are going a week or so later. *sigh*....as instructed by our son.


109 posted on 01/08/2007 7:45:35 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: LUV W; All
Yes, a most memorable event to share this with our FRiends. *HUGS*


110 posted on 01/08/2007 7:47:41 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: SoldierDad; MostHatedSkin13; PsyberAce

Thanks, Robert, for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

Thanks also to Jeremy and Daynnis.
Prayers for your safety and success as well.


111 posted on 01/08/2007 7:49:26 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: laurenmarlowe; Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC

Yes, it was a lovely surprise! I am so touched!


112 posted on 01/08/2007 7:57:19 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: laurenmarlowe

Babys and Puppies are darn cute


113 posted on 01/08/2007 7:57:35 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife; LUV W; Kathy in Alaska; All
Thanks sweetie! Y'all are the best!

Bob Wills~Little Cowboy Lullaby

114 posted on 01/08/2007 8:05:07 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: Kathy in Alaska

I love that picture of the baby in the mailbox!

I don't have any photos on my laptop or I'd do photobucket and show you my grandson. He's 4 now!

Class was long today and will be longer tomorrow with a practicum and then a test!


115 posted on 01/08/2007 8:06:23 PM PST by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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To: mylife

Yes, they are! :D


116 posted on 01/08/2007 8:07:54 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: TheMom
20 years gone by in a hurry...

Happy 20th Birthday, TheBoy!!


Click

117 posted on 01/08/2007 8:10:28 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: AZamericonnie; Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC

thank you!


118 posted on 01/08/2007 8:13:29 PM PST by MountainFlower (Brownback, Brownback, He's Our Man!!)
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To: Texas Songwriter; laurenmarlowe; mylife; HiJinx; Kathy in Alaska

FATHERS AND SONS
JEFF RUSSELL

119 posted on 01/08/2007 8:14:27 PM PST by luvie (We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
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To: mylife

thanks, MY!


120 posted on 01/08/2007 8:16:31 PM PST by MountainFlower (Brownback, Brownback, He's Our Man!!)
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