Well, we just got the news. My newest grandchild will be a girl. So exciting. I can't wait to get to the stores and shop for her. I love my grandchildren. God did good when He created them. Praise Him for all his many blessings. They are all such special people. This one will be my number seven and her mother's number five. I am so blessed. Her name will be Claire Victoria-Marie Carter. They are using her paternal grandmother's name for the middle name (Victoria) and Marie is Chris' middle name and my middle name, so, she is named after her mother and maternal grandmother. I love it and I am honored by that. Claire will certainly be loved, that is for sure.
I thought this baby was going to be a boy. I have been right in my predictions for a long time now, but the last three predictions have been wrong. My mojo is off. Don't know why. I used to be so good at this. I just told my niece/cousin the other day that I thought her baby was going to be a girl. I guess we better get out the blue stuff. I have been wrong so much, that I wouldn't take much stock in my predictions anymore.
That said, I am very excited that this is a baby girl. However, I would have been just as excited if it had been a boy. I love my grandchildren--every single one of them. I guess I could say that I am partial to girls, having only had girls, and having six of my grandchildren be girls, but I love my boy grandchild, too. He is very lovable and so very special.
Each one is different from the others. Briefly, here is the way they are:
Julia - very artistic, very secure in herself, beautiful, smart, my first.
Aubrey - very sweet, very kind, beautiful, smart, my second.
Chase - very tender hearted, very much a boy, handsome, smart, my third.
Eden - very dramatic, very crafty, beautiful, smart, my fourth.
Addy Lin - very busy, very loving, beautiful, smart, my fifth.
Lila - very opinionated, very verbal, beautiful, too smart for her own good, my sixth.
Claire - TBD - I am sure she will be just as perfect as all the others.
There are so many other attributes that they have that if I listed them all, they post would be entirely too long. As you can guess, I think highly of my grandchildren. I believe they will be awesome adults because they are such awesome kids. They are being raised by Christian parents who love them and lift them up in prayer every single day. I pray for them, too. I pray for their parents. I love my daughters more than they could possibly imagine. I think they are very awesome individuals, and I think they are good wives to their husbands, and good mothers to their children. They grew up to be very special women to a lot of people, and they did this in spite of the mistakes that I made as a mother. I share them with very special grandparents, too. Their other parents are good people who love them and pray for them and their grandchildren as well. They make great in-laws for my girls. I know that my girls are loved by their husbands' parents. That is a good thing. Actually, that is a great thing.
I think my family and their families are the greatest.
