I'm A Grandfather. Sort Of

My Step daughter Christina and her husband John Paul had a baby boy today at 1:55 this afternoon. Both mother and baby are just fine.

I got the phone call that labor pains had started at 4:30 on Christmas day and an hour later I was on the road to Ft Campbell , KY with my right arm in a sling and a bag of m&m s that I could not reach. Five and a half hours later I got there just in time for her water to break and head off to the hospital. Getting to the hospital at midnight I waited and sat on the floor in her room untill it came time to push. Then Chris (Christinas brother) and I went down the hall and waited. Janet and John Paul took over and acted like they did more work than Christina.

The two photos are from when we first got to the hospital and when I left this afternoon. Check out the big ol Santa at the check in desk.

Gone to the Hills

I am feeling better today and tomorrow on Christmas Eve I will be heading to the mountains where I can get some rest and really get better. That is until my Step Daughter goes into labor and then it will be off to Ft Campbell, KY to see my new grandchild.

I will post baby photos when I have them.

Getting Better

Feeling better today. Still can't use right arm. Typing with left hand is no fun, so why do it ?

Home from Hospital

I am home. I hurt. I will take the pain medication. My Son Garen stayed up with me all last night and is crashed on the sofa. I had to sneak into my office here at home to post this.

Thanks to the folks who sent goodies, My former sister in law Kathy who works at the hospital, Milissa and Cory, Keith and Gary from Georgian Gallery and Michelle Deraney from SCB-Television channel 15.

Eric from Higher Vision Broadcasting is coming over today to help with last min Christmas orders. Erin is running errands and Melanie is still with her ailing grandparents. She really needs more help than I do.

I should have some very big extended family news in the next week. Christina , who I helped raise since she was 14 and gave away at her wedding a few years ago, will along with her husband John Paul be having a baby. Baby is due Christmas day. John Paul is in the US Army Special Forces and will be leaving for his second tour in Afghanistan in middle January. Maybe he will find Bin-Laden this time as that is his mission.

Sorry if wording is wrong , I think the pain killers are starting to kick in. Just noticed this took an hour to write. I will not continue to type with my left hand.

Surgery Tomorrow

Tomorrow on the 19th I will have surgery to repair my shoulder. The Doc says I should be up and about in about a week unless they have to do more than they expected. I think the kids are looking forward to taking care of me while I get better.

I wonder if I should act like a royal pain and get them to do EVERYTHING that I have been doing for them for the last 15 years. I know I wont get any rest as this place has been a zoo trying to get all of the Christmas orders out the door. We have been short handed in the office as Melanie is taking care of her 94 year old Grandfather . Her 92 year old Grandmother is in the last days of her life and Mel is doing all she can to keep her comfortable also.

Erin will be holding down the fort and sneaking of with the kids to Chick-Fil-A while I am whacked out on pain killers. I don't really like drugs but may have to do the pain killers for a day or two. I really don't know what to expect. I may not need them at all, or I might need a refill. I have never had any type of medical procedure before.

Last but not least in any way. My adopted Grandmother Jean Daniel passed away from cancer yesterday. Crazy Jean as we called her with the most love, was the Grandmother of two of my closest friends since we were only 14 years old. She loved the Atlanta Braves, her kids , grandchildren , great grandchildren , one great great grandchild and me. Oh, and shoplifting M & Ms
There are almost no photos of Jean from the last ten years because she was afraid that someone would put her face on some naked woman's body and then put it on the internet. Of course we were the ones that told her we would do it, so it is kind of our fault.

Goodbye Jean, and thanks for always remembering that I like the regular plain ones and not the ones with the peanuts.