Trey
After a short week or two, I’m sure your parents can hardly
remember a time when you haven’t
been with them or a part of their lives. A feeling anyone else that who
has held you can relate to for you’re a keeper. Your arrival on this planet has changed all of us. That’s a
pretty amazing thought, for someone so small and who's days are mostly spent sleeping in dreamland.
I wonder what you as a newborn dream of? Your face smiles and frowns and sometimes gets all smushy,
and I could watch you and guess for hours on end.
There was so much anticipation at your arrival-what you’d
look like, if you’d be healthy, the color of your hair, eyes and your name. Now we know all those things like
we’ve known them forever. Trey,
welcome to your new world. Your
mother and father have already learned what it is to love someone so completely
that it amazes them and they are just starting out. That’s not a difficult
feeling to have when you’re asleep in our arms-about as peaceful as any living
thing can be. When you’re sleeping
or even perhaps taking a peek with your eyes barely open, nothing else in the
world matters for us-it’s a moment lost in your new life.
I don’t know what that life will have in store for you
Trey-the world is pretty crazy and your place here now changes how all of us
will think of it. Before you, the future ahead had been spent maybe thinking of
ourselves, but now you’re here adding a new twist to it and we want it better for you. As a grandfather, I dream of sharing
things I love with you-the outdoors mostly, because that’s where the very best things in life are as my
grandfathers taught me. Hiking, or
at the least holding your small hand out on a leaf shuffling walk , fishing,
hunting, pedaling a bike and shushing skis for sure. I’m guessing like with your mom and uncle Nik, there will be
some sports to watch you play and some major mileage to be put on whatever vehicle is driven to see you.
Your parents love you, but you will scare them, make them
laugh and smile, make them proud
and make them cry-some of those things have happened already in your short
life. You’re a pretty amazing
little guy. Your grandparents love
you very much too-I’m still trying to assess out how this grand-paw thing fits
me, but so far, it’s been darn good.
We’ve “watched” the Packers, fallen asleep to a late night Badgers
game, changed your diapers
and fed you til you’re full and
sleepy. All my friends who tell me
grandparenting is great, so far have been right. I hadn’t doubted it for a second.
If I hadn’t figured out this “Circle of Life” thing yet,
your birth sure has smacked me in the head with it, much like when your mom was
born. Your dad talked about how
old he’ll be when you graduate from high school-in my mind I did the arithmetic
as well and figured out the same thing-ouch, but then 70 will be the next 50 in
new math terms.
Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrafice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it. -Sai baba
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