My Thanks To All for the Support and Encouragement

[Grama-Herc]

We,, my daughter and grandbaby arrived safe and in fine condition. I on the other hand barely survived.

While waiting at the airport for them to arrive the intercom overhead would occasionally announce to keep you luggage close to you and to report any suspicious person. I just knew that any minute the security guards were gonna come and get me. Lord knows, I was acting suspicious!

All that pacing and deep breathing. I kept getting lightheaded and would go sit down but then just pop back up again. Talk about a nervous person! I worried off at lest 5 pounds this morning.

The baby is beautiful. She is also such a good baby. To have been awake since 2:30 this morning with only 1 nap, taken a plane trip, visited with grama and great grama and gone shopping at walmart and still been happy and giggly, well she is a very good baby.

I am emotionally exhausted but all is well. I need to express my eternal gratitude to all of you who sent encouraging words to me through this journey I've been on.

Every word sent my way helped. Whether it was to calm my nerves, or bring me back down to earth or just simply wish me well. I will always be grateful to each and everyone of you for the kindness and understanding you showed me.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul. Now on to the biggest event in my life. A 4 day visit from my daughter and grandbaby

 

[Jet]

Well, I don't suppose we will be seeing you much around here for the next few days... Have fun and spending time with your daughter and grandbaby. I am so excited for you.

Jet

 

[Deleted member 541]

Herc,

Even though your time waiting for your daughter was tough on you....The real important part is...YOU DID IT!!!!!!! Congratulations on a huge step....


Now go and spend the next 4 days in heavenly bliss with your daughter and grand baby... ENJOY every minute.

Hugs.....

 

[Grama-Herc]

Update:

It is almost 11 o'clock and the baby's schedule and my sleeping schedule are not cooperating. So far I have not seen them today. But I will as soon as the baby wakes up from her morning nap. But yesterday was so cool.

But OMG the baby weighs 30 pounds and is only 9 months old. I made the mistake of carry her around and my back is killing me today. Don't know how my daughter handles that much very young active weight.

I will write more tomorrow

 

[2quilt]

Enjoy the visit, Herc!

 

[morgan]

Yay! You did it! Hope you're having the time of your life!

Enjoy, Morgan

 

[Grama-Herc]

I must confess that the trip to the airport and the parking garage and the airport itself was so difficult for me. I don't know how I got through it. It is the most difficult thing I've done in years and at times really felt like I was going to pass out. I sat, I paced, I leaned against a wall. I could not just sit. I kept popping up and down and all. The anixety and especially the fear OMG the sheer fear of the people around me. I was extremely jumpy and that does not do well in a crowded airport.

But I DID IT! And I am dam proud of it too! If I had thought of it sooner I would have sent a limo to pick her up so I would not have to go through this trauma, but alas, I thought of it way to late to do anything. DAM!

But I did it. I drove, parked, went inside, waited in a crowd----oh boy, that one was hard! BUT I DID IT

 

[Nicolette]

Good on you Grama-Herc. You have a lot to be proud of as we are proud of you. Enjoy your daughter and grandbaby.

 

[Moonshadow]

Congratulations on your strength, perseverance, and commitment. As difficult as the whole experience was, you did what you needed to do, to see your daughter and grand-daughter.

Kudos! Perhaps next time will even be a little easier.

 

[Deleted member 541]

Way to go Herc.....Awesome job. Just think you get to take them back to the airport too. It will be easier this time. It gets easier every time you challenge yourself to do something.....


Hugs

 

[Grama-Herc]

AUGH The trip back to the airport! ! ! Just kidding! I should be just fine.

I am a tiny bit disappointed though, it has rained every day here---T. S. Fay ! !

We wanted to take the baby to the beach but looks like it is not going to happen. So we just sit inside and I watch my daughter play with my grandbaby. I watch the baby eat, bathe---everything but sleep. I got to see "ALL" of her last night and she is beautiful from nose to toes and every place in between LOL

She got real fussy last evening! Hell, the trip finally caught up with her and she was screaming her head off---just tired. My,my, but she does have a temper. Wonder where ever it came from:dontknow::rofl:

Took mom over to the studio apt last night and we all had dinner together. Sure was nice. Mom just can't take much anymore--she has post polio syndrome and gets exhausted very easily. We had a nice visit and mom enjoyed the baby till she started screaming. But it was bedtime for the baby so we waited till bath time was over and then mom and I went home.

I just sit and watch my grandbaby and my daughter talks. She has told me all about her pregnancy, the birth and her home and hubby and the in-laws and I just keep on watching my grandbaby and my kid.

Oh Yea, yesterday I gave the baby "1" of her mom's toys along with a picture to prove it was hers. The baby LOVED IT. First I showed my daughter the picture and said "remember this?" My daughter said "oh yea, my busy box, wish I could find one for the baby" My heart jumped out of my chest! That was exactly what I dreamed of. So, today I am going to do it again with another toy. This one has a real story to go with it.

Oh guys, pinch me, I must be dreaming. :clap: :thumbs-up :occasion:
And I still have 2 days with them. My ONLY complaint-----just not spending enough time with my daughter. I should have rented a 1 bedroom apt so we could be together and visit while the baby sleeps. The studio does not allow us to do that--I have to come home.

Sorry this is so long but there is so much to share with my friends ya know!!!!!!!

 

[Rivergirl]

Hiya Herc------

I don't know where the reply I posted last night went (I hope it didn't get attached to some other thread!). But anyway I just wanted to congratulate you.

Planning this whole trip, organizing things for the baby and a place for your daughter to stay, navigating the airport and the crowds BY YOURSELF, dealing with the stress when the storm seemed about to wipe everything out, and most wonderful of all, reconnecting with your daughter. None of it could have been easy and many of us just could not have done it. So we all give you a huge hug and a big round of applause.........

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: (I would have put more but it got rejected, so just imagine about twenty more smiley faces applauding!)


....and thanks for keeping us updated! It's been great to follow a heartwarming success story like this. I can just imagine you bunch traipsing around Wal-Mart, or sitting at the supper table, or bathing the baby. The wonderful things of everyday life that we overlook, and miss so much when PTSD howls through our lives. Your strength and imagination and love for your daughter and your huge heart----as big as a house---brings tears to my eyes.

:kiss:

Rivergirl