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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: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


241 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:44 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


242 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:44 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


243 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:44 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


244 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:45 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


245 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:45 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


246 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:45 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


247 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:46 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


248 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:47 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LisaMalia

I'm going for it!


249 posted on 01/08/2007 11:48:47 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

I'm going for it!


250 posted on 01/08/2007 11:49:04 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Congrats, WV Rebel!


251 posted on 01/08/2007 11:49:46 PM PST by LisaMalia (God Bless President Bush and our Troops....still proud of my Buckeyes!....)
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To: LisaMalia

Good morning, Grammie Lisa....StarCMC put it together, but had family obligations last night. I had the pleasure of posting it for her.

How's the "word" training going at Ava Malia's house. LOL!


252 posted on 01/08/2007 11:51:58 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Lot's better, I think! I will be babysitting Saturday, so I'll be making sure, on language patrol...lol!

I just love it when she gives you something and says "tank you". She hasn't yet got the concept of saying that when she gets something, instead of gives, but it's still cute!


253 posted on 01/09/2007 12:07:21 AM PST by LisaMalia (God Bless President Bush and our Troops....still proud of my Buckeyes!....)
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To: LisaMalia; All
TOP TEN SIGNS YOU'RE A GRANDMOTHER

1: You were glad when your kids moved out. Now you complain to Grandpa about how they never come to visit.

2: Your sandwiches are filled with the same kind of stuff you pour out of your cat food cans.

3: Phone conversations now take hours-and it's with a pollster.

4: When you go shopping, your cart doubles as your walker.

5: You love your grandkids for doing the same things you used to yell at their mother for doing.

6: You have a special set of teeth just for the holidays.

7: You now read books that have print the same size as that of your five-year-old grandson's.

8: You used to twist your hips. Now you get them replaced.

9: You get XM Radio-on your hearing aids.

10: You call John McCain "Kid" and offer him a cookie

254 posted on 01/09/2007 12:10:44 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Wonderful thread,Kathy!


255 posted on 01/09/2007 12:19:23 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: TheMom

Reality smacks me as all my grandsons tower over me!


256 posted on 01/09/2007 12:22:47 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

LOL!


257 posted on 01/09/2007 12:23:46 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; LUV W; MountainFlower; LisaMalia

~For The Grandmothers~

258 posted on 01/09/2007 12:36:51 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: LisaMalia

Little ones are like sponges......they are so cute as they learn. Have fun grammie sitting.


259 posted on 01/09/2007 1:03:11 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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260 posted on 01/09/2007 1:05:49 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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