Sharing the Big News May 19, 2006
After keeping our secret for sooo long, the perfect opportunity to share it with my parents came just after Mother’s Day, as they prepared for their momentous trip to Bolivia for my dad’s 50th high school reunion. Since they were flying out of LAX on Wednesday, May 17, they planned to spend the day before they left in LA, resting and helping their cat Sake adapt to his new “vacation” home with us.
But how to share such momentous news? Could we come up with something better than the typical, ‘Mom, Dad, we have something to tell you.’ That’s the preamble I gave six years ago, when I called to tell them that Daniel had proposed and they guessed it right away. No, this time around, we had to think of a slightly more memorable way to let them know of their impending status as grandparents. A few weeks earlier, we hit on the perfect plan: framing one of the sonogram pictures we’d received during my many visits to UCLA to confirm the “peanut” was growing as it should. How could I argue with that old adage: “A picture’s worth a 1,000 words”?
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Congratulations grandparents. We, as parents, share the happiness of Yvonne and Daniel. The future is theirs….
Daniel & Yvonne, congratulations! What great news, I got a mail from Alberto telling me to look at your blog.
It is so nice to hear about your life and “baby beige”.
Felicitaciones desde Holanda,
Annette
Pd Mi mama tambien los felicita. Se acuerde muy bien tu visita a Holanda, Daniel.
Que bueno¡¡¡¡
Muchas felicitaciones
Abrazos
Gisela
I must say after all the shock of clever announcement of this miracle, I’m still elated out of my senses with the thrill of this announcement. Even though this horrible picture looks like a painful moment, I assure you this was a moment of tremendous joy. We await this blessed event as only a grandparents can. Each day with the growth of our little bundle of joy we walk taller, step just a little higher, have less headaches and stress because we know there is a future that we will share universally with this much loved little beige bundle of joy. With the combination of these two very special people/parents, this is bound to be the smartest and best baby in the whole wide world! (We are sure no other grandparents have ever felt as proud as we are with this news! Ha! Ha!) We are so happy this event is being shared with everyone the world around. Thank you Yvonne and Daniel for letting us share this event step by step. We send lots of love and hugs to everyone as you read this. We know you share our love and excitment. Until the next little blurb on this blog, Tom and Bev