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Joining the Club
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma
By Deborah Shouse
Then, wham! My first grandchild was born… I was jolted, blindsided by a wallop of loving more intense than anything I could remember or had ever imagined. ~Lesley Stahl, Becoming Grandma For years, I lurked on the edges of an elite women’s club, listening to their conversations and wondering, “Surely things can’t be as rosy and intriguing as they are saying. Aren’t they a bit too enthusiastic and ecstatic?” They weren’t secretive about their feelings; they trumpeted, bugled, saxophoned, and tromboned. No detail was left unexamined, no aria unsung. (Keep reading)
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