Sunday, October 20, 2013

Hocus pocus alamagocus! The joke was on me!

 
 
I love little gifts so I was delighted when I read my granddaughter's text:
 
When will you be home? We have a little gift for you from Oktoberfest :)
 
It was dark at 6:30 p.m. when she and her husband pulled into the driveway.
 
 
I just knew there was a cute bracelet or pair of earrings inside this little four inch cloth bag.
 
 I opened it and thought, Aww, how sweet. I DO remember her first little trick-or-treat joke. I said, "Oh honey, I can still hear your toddler voice, 'What do baby ghosts wear on Halloween? BOOties!' This is my surprise?"
 
 
"Yes, and you can keep them at YOUR house for Lana (Lahna) or Liam William... William for Paw-Paw's namesake." Names, of course, are tentative right now.
I cried. I screeched. I jumped up and hugged her. Then I told her to sit down and be careful. Then I rubbed her tummy. I aksed when she found out.
 
"You won't believe it. We had stopped at Wal-Mart because we were going to buy a bottle of wine to take to the Oktoberfest party we were invited to. Justin saw an Early Pregnancy Test in the check out line and said, "Why don't you try that before we get to the party and drink?"
 
She went into the empty bathroom, peed on the stick and when it came back positive, half the store could hear her yelling. The cleaning girl came in and asked if she was okay. She screamed, "Yes, I'm pregnant. My husband and I have been trying for months."
 
The girl grabbed her hands and they both jumped up and down and cheered. Oh what a Wal-Mart memory! I think I'll call my great-grandchild WALLY.
 
I love being a grandma. This is going to be GREAT!
This was the best Halloween surprise ever!

23 comments:

Sioux Roslawski said...

Congratulations, Linda. What a happy surprise!

Val said...

What a clever way to make the announcement! Congratulations!

Tammy said...

Sounds like that cute, clever little bag held a trick and a treat all at once. Congratulations to all!

Unknown said...

Congratulations!! And what a fun way to find out! I'm so ready for some Great Grandchildren. I miss babies!

Southhamsdarling said...

Oh , what a wonderful surprise Linda and what a lovely way for them to let you know their exciting news. Congratulations to them both and fancy you and Bill going to be great-grandparents. Now that really is something special!

Bookie said...

Looks like that creative gene in life was passed on! What a great way to tell you and happy day for you.

Anonymous said...

Oh how wonderful Linda. I am going ya for you and your daughter. You thought in the bag was well you got a big Surprise.

I miss my babies too. They are all teens Grandadults now and two in University.

So my little pumpkins no small tricker -treaters. Boooo Hooooo

Terri Elders said...

Love the BOOties...I'd never heard that Halloween joke before. I must be living on an alternate planet. My stepgrandaughter had a baby a year ago...so welcome to the GREAT ranks!
xox

Cathy C. Hall said...

You have the BEST stories--even your granddaughter does things differently (in the Walmart? Really?)--I love that!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations-I don't know you personally, but I suspect you will be the best grandmother ever:-)

Alice said...

Congratulations Linda. You've always been a 'great' grandma but not it's official. And what a clever way to find out - BOOties!

Alice said...

Ok so I fogot to edit. My message should read, NOW it's official.

Susan said...

Oh, Linda, that was "spook"tacular news!

So happy for all. Nice way to tell you, too! Susan

Connie said...

Oh what wonderful news! Congratulations! :D

Unknown said...

congrats!!! I just dropped one of my 30 grands off at home. I keep at least one each w/e. I have 8 greats too. There is nothing like a baby to brighten the day!! Hugs and blessings!! You will have a wonderful story to share with the little one.

Lynn said...

I love the surprise they gave you in order to tell you the news! Woot-woot! Congrats Gramma!

Shelly said...

How wonderful!!! The heartiest of congratulations!

River said...

What a lovely surprise for you! Congratulations. I love babies, my great nephew is 6 weeks old today.

Susan Sundwall said...

Linda, you do NOT look old enough to be a great grandma, but I'm sure you will be a great, great-grandma Hugs.

Kim Lehnhoff said...

Congrats!

Liam can also be a shortened form of William - so the baby would have a repeating name!

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