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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: EsmeraldaA

Oooooooo...pink roses...just beautiful. And the baby is to be a girl, so very appropriate!

((((hugs))))


61 posted on 01/08/2007 6:49:28 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

Now who would have thought that Luv would be excited about CAKE! LOL *Hugs*


62 posted on 01/08/2007 6:50:08 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

Thank you for the congrats...and for the beautiful cake.

I can hardly wait till the "future" part is past! :D

Piper is sure ready and I know her parents are! LOL!


63 posted on 01/08/2007 6:50:47 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: AZamericonnie
Monday was good. It was busy. I finally got around to posting a Free Republic Book Club thread. It's only been about ... ooooooohhhh .... 18 months since the last one.

I guess I procrastinate a little bit.

64 posted on 01/08/2007 6:51:41 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: TheMom

Yes it does.


65 posted on 01/08/2007 6:52:21 PM PST by Eaker (You were given the choice between war & dishonor. You chose dishonor & you will have war. -Churchill)
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To: LUV W; LisaMalia; MountainFlower

Congratulations Grammas!!

66 posted on 01/08/2007 6:52:31 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: AZamericonnie

I am shocked that you would say that! ;D

67 posted on 01/08/2007 6:53:00 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; laurenmarlowe; LUV W; LisaMalia; MountainFlower
For the Grandmas, the Grandmas to be, and the Grandma Wannabes






68 posted on 01/08/2007 6:54:15 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: laurenmarlowe

And to you, too Lauren! How are things progressing?

That is the cutest picture!

((((hugs))))


69 posted on 01/08/2007 6:56:11 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: AZamericonnie; Soaring Feather; mylife; EsmeraldaA; Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC; SandRat; All

Thank you very much!

70 posted on 01/08/2007 6:57:06 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: SandRat

Awwwwwwww...too cute, Sandy!

I want that pillow! LOL!

I have a feeling the highways between here and OKC are
going to be kept hot!


71 posted on 01/08/2007 6:57:15 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: Tanniker Smith

You did? Link please?


72 posted on 01/08/2007 6:58:20 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: LUV W

Howdy LUV! *HUGS*

Still about the same as the other day, will know more on Wednesday!


73 posted on 01/08/2007 6:59:05 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: laurenmarlowe

Oh! I'll bet you've chewed your nails down to the first knuckles just waiting it out. Sheesh!

Come on little one.....get on with it! LOL!

The kids said that Piper is in position but still too high. Darn...this race is getting tight! :D


74 posted on 01/08/2007 7:02:46 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

;0)


75 posted on 01/08/2007 7:03:16 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: laurenmarlowe

Did it just BEE-Cause.


76 posted on 01/08/2007 7:04:08 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: LUV W

Star put it together, I just posted it for her. She'll be here later.


77 posted on 01/08/2007 7:05:02 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: laurenmarlowe

Thanks for the great pictures of our heroes, Lauren!

God bless them every one!


78 posted on 01/08/2007 7:06:10 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

I thinks some of us would like to skip being parents and go straight to being grandparents. LOL!


79 posted on 01/08/2007 7:06:37 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Making every thread a Star Wars thread, one post at a time!!!)
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To: LUV W; LisaMalia; MountainFlower; laurenmarlowe
Congratulations, Grammas-to-be!!



80 posted on 01/08/2007 7:07:53 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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