I'm gonna be a grandma for the second time next May! DERBY DAY...we're taking bets!

If the new baby is anything like 2-year-old Lauren, it will be unbelievably grand! I cleaned out the basement last week and found all the old dolls, Care Bears, barn & horses, peeps (people) and Hot Wheels. Lauren cries when she has to leave my house. We had one day last week just to play. I don't know of anything that can make me laugh like she can. She dances and sings and is learning to put sentences together...Where's the cat? (With dramatic arm gestures and voice inflection.)

The three grown-up kids are all fine and well and have jobs they love! They live just close enough to visit, but then they leave. One was here Sunday, one is working in town today and spending the night here tonight, and one stops by (with my granddaughter) several times a week.

MMario, I've always said that having kids is like being married. The good times are better, and the bad times are worse. Right now it's mostly good times.

PS Leadfingers, my two 80+ uncles have been into the Internet and email for several years. I even make a birthday webpage with lots of silliness every year for one of them. We routinely exchange jokes and pictures.