Just call me Grandma…make that “anything else”
February 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Yes, you have read correctly. I think I win for youngest Grandmother in our family, even Brenda. Jani called me last week and she is pregnant. The facts are so far (and as far as i know) 1. I cant remember his name right now. 2.They are talking about getting married but have made no plans yet. 3. He is 18 and graduating high school this year. 4. He plans on going into the Marines in July. 5. Jani is working at a restaurant in Oklahoma and living with her dad currently. 6. She is around 6 weeks right now which makes her due around Oct or Nov.? 6. She says they love each other and that is all I really know. Should we make some wagers on whether it is a boy or girl?
8 Responses to “Just call me Grandma…make that “anything else””
Okay, well Benny hasn’t showed me the codes for Huh? yet. But I won’t call you Grandma, I will call you Granny.
By lainie on Feb 19, 2008
Well Carmen, Me and Jaymi added it up.. If Rachel has a baby at 15 like Jaymi did, he would be a Grandpa at 30..Let’s see how long it takes her, it seems to run in our families on both sides!! ( Just a joke everyone):)
By crystal on Feb 19, 2008
I don’t know the code for “huh?” All I know are
:p
and that’s about it.
By ben on Feb 20, 2008
You realize I can only see this as it would pertain to my own daughter:
1. His name of course is MUD until he decides to be responsible.
2.They should have talked about marriage a little earlier, that reality might have postponed the human drive.
3. As much as Allie & I talk about planning things out and setting goals, If she were to even THINK of doing this I wouldn’t care if he were 18 or 80, a shotgun would be concealed somewhere at the wedding.
4. I like the armed forces as much as anyone. There is a safety in structure and discipline for a young family
5. Allie would have to get in as many working hours and wages as she could before she had to stop and nest.
6. Oct would be around the time of Allie’s own Birthday
7. They always love each other (as far as love is translated correctly).
I would wager on having a boy, there have been so many early girls in the family…. time for a change:)
By Bud on Feb 20, 2008
Well, I suppose I may be a little different, but Joe had a serious girlfriend when he was 15, so when Casey turned 15 I asked Joe to please put her on the Rabies shots every three months and we would never have to worry about that.
By lainie on Feb 20, 2008
I’m so sad I can barely talk about this at all. It’s just seeing it going down into the next generation, and Buddy is so right in his observations.
When Tony came home from his job at Bruno’s one night, and told his Dad about his situation, and he was two weeks from his 17th birthday, his Dad gave him just one reply. “You will marry the girl, Tony.”
That was that. Tony and Holli were an exception to the rule, and proved that what they felt truly was love. They have lived to raise three children of their own, and another child that they adopted.
Then there was Brenda. She and Darrell married. He was twenty years old, and thanks to Brenda’s pushing and shoving, he finished high school. She got her GED, went to a secretarial school, and
has worked all of her life. She has carefully planned for their future, but they face indebtedness, which isn’t unusual for anybody in today’s economy. They both continue to work hard.
Crystal is a child to be very pleased with, and so is Christopher. Now they are grandparents to two fine little grandchildren.
I think they are coming up on their silver anniversary soon.
It has literally broken my heart to have this happen with Jani, and i will feel the same if it happens to Lanie-Beth or Julia. The pain with my daughters and one of my sons was deep. All of that was the reason I could never hold my head up as a very good mother. Something just went so terribly wrong. Please forgive me for expressing that again. I’ve spent years on my knees talking with the Savior about it. Begging his forgiveness for the part I must have had in failing to teach my children well, or set a good example, or whatever it was that caused everything to happen the way that it did. I could have borne it if it had been one child that had gone astray, or maybe two. But the awful truth is that in our case it was seven out of nine.
That has to be a terrible reflection on the home that Luis and I provided. It was not the beautiful homes that the apostles talk about in their talks on the BYU channel.
And now my grand-daughter.
I can only hope that it turns out as well as with Tony and Brenda. By that, I mean that they will marry and stay married. That is the most I hope for now.
As for hoping and praying that our children will one day return to the church, luis and I never give up, no matter how bleak it looks. We kneel every night of our lives together, and hold hands, and one of us offers the prayer. We pray for all of you. We pray that you will remember the primary lessons that you had, and the few good home evenings that we had. We pray that Buddy will remember his mission that he served, and that our sons will remember that they hold the Holy Priesthood, and that they need to honor it.
Life on this earth is a short breath. We come here,
we live for a moment, and then we are gone to stand at the judgment bar. The Apostle Paul cautions us that we dare not procrastinate the day of our repentance.
I am always quoting Brigham Young with quotes that he probably didn’t even QUOTE! Here is one: He said: “Even the weakest saint CAN live the Word of Wisdom” He also said that no saint can expect to enter the kingdom of God who has not read the Book of Mormon.
Did he or did he not quote those quotes Bill?
Will Jani’s baby be a girl or boy? I don’t know. We were counseled by the Bishop at the time when Carmen got pregnant that she should place the baby for adoption through the LDS Adoption Agency. Anyway, I know that I had no faith to do that. I couldn’t bare to give Jani up. I have a friend who did have the faith to give the child up, after keeping it for twelve days, and suffering agony over it for years. But the child was placed in a home where the Mormon roots were deep. Who knows what has happened in that case? We do know all of the sadness that Jani has been through. Chris has been a wonderful father, and he’s married to a fabulous woman now, but it was too late for Jani.
I’m happy that Beth is reading the Bible, and looking forward to going to church.
Carmen has no idea how happy I am to see her, Jason, and the girls in church.
Lainie is doing an incredible job with her class in primary.
Bill, through all of your trials and tribulations, the one thing about you is that you have always hung on to the Iron Rod, even if it was with your fingernails sometimes. There were times when I hung with one fingernail.
Ben and Julie and your kids, and Maria. I know where you are on Sunday morning.
Let’s all strengthen each other.
By mother on Feb 20, 2008
Mother I do need to reply to you on this about Casey, she was given a blessing as a baby by Dad, I still have the pictures in my album of that day and for some reason, and I wish I knew what was said in that blessing that day , she tells me that she has always felt the love of Christ in her life and she knows he loves her and if you could hear her talk now she is soooo spiritual and she has soooo much more faith than I ever did and she says no matter what she ever did in her life she would still pray at night before she went to sleep and I know it had to do with the blessing given to her from Dad.
By lainie on Feb 22, 2008
Right now I am in the middle of reading Acts to Revelatons because for some reason I have never read that and I don’t know why. But, Casey always quotes that her favorite scripture is “Acts chapter 20 vs 24 “But none of these things move me, neither count my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have recieved of the Lord Jesus, to testify of the Gospel of the Grace of God”
By lainie on Feb 22, 2008