Congratulations Mike on your first grandchild. Enjoy as only a grandparent can. Stan Spiegel still waiting for his first grandchild in Portland, Maine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 3:11 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] May Day Baby -- Long Live the Revolution > As of 10:37 last night, I am become a proud new grandfather, my first. Oh what a fitful little wad of wanting she is. Screaming and kicking the air and flailing her fists at the world, poor baby, she doesn't have a clue what's she's in for. Her mama, my Shantih, looked like she'd been run over by a pickup truck when it was over, but she made it through natural torture birth just as her mother and I had made it through hers 33 years ago (and 2 more to boot). I guess it's not fair to say "I made it through", but I did get tired of breath coaching. Forgive me if I get sentimental here, but I'd forgotten how cute babies are -- almost as cute as kittens. But man oh man, was I ever glad that she was theirs and not mine, that I didn't have twenty-something years ahead of me of dealing with that bellowing bundle of need. Mother and child are physically fine. Psychologically? I can only hope they've bonded. Please, dear God, bond them. > If you want to send a check in celebration of a new human being, make it out to me and write "Paxton Alexandria" on the For line. I'll be sure it eventually gets to her. > > Mike Geary > Memphis > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html