The New Baby

When my son told me that his wife was pregnant with their first baby, I knew I would have a special bond that child.  I knew that baby would be forever in my heart.  The baby was due the end of November 2009, and then adjusted to about the 10^th of December, 2009. My son’s wife complained most of her pregnancy about her cravings, and then how fat she was, and then how she wished the baby would hurry up and get born already!!  In October of 2009 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and we elected to have surgery.  When the doctors decided that all I needed was radiation therapy and that it would start just after Thanksgiving, I was so angry, because I had already had planned on taking my vacation to go and help with the new parents and meet the baby.  I was angry I had breast cancer, I was angry that my vacation was cancelled and I was angry I would not get to see the baby and welcome her into the world.   I was very pleased when my son told me that they would bring the baby to me.  Echoe Renae entered the land of the living on December 10, 2009 and met her Grandmother on December 20, 2009.  They traveled from Texas to Georgia and stayed a month and it was all I could do to let them go back to Texas with the baby in January.   I have visited in Texas over the last two years, and that child has never forgotten her grandmother.  As soon as I have walked in the door, she knew me.   I helped her to learn to walk, and the second time I visited I helped to learn to use the “potty”.   We are now learning to speak with annunciation because I think she has so much to tell me.