Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Great Expectations

I have been given official permission to share with the world that my two married daughters are both expecting children. I have known this for sometime but upon threat of death I was not allowed to tell a soul until today. I am still not certain why the silence was needed but I complied. My wife had a difficult time holding back the good news and justified letting a bit of information here and a bit of information there slip to select individuals. I got the "don't even go there" look from her if I attempted to point out that perhaps when her daughters told her not to tell anyone they really meant it.
So now I have two daughters who were very competitive with each other prior to getting married and both are due to have babies within one week of each other. This could be good. The kids are expected to be born in September some time. This scuttles my plans for archery hunting elk this year. Perhaps I need to send out an edict to my children that their children's births should be planned so as not to occur between September 1st and the end of November. This will avoid any potential conflicts with hunting seasons and grandchildren's births and future birthdays. I have a feeling that to blow off a grandkids birthday so I can hunt it will not go over well. If I live long enough it may serve as an excuse to go hunting. Imagine; "Honey I am taking little Scooter/Scootette hunting for his/her birthday and I need to buy a new gun for him/her to use". There are some possibilities here. If grandkids are born during summer, I may be able to get a new fly rod out of the deal.
Needless to say I am excited for the births of our first grandchildren who will also be the first great grandchildren on my wife's side of the family. I look forward to feeding them food their parents prohibit in their own homes, letting them have free reign over the house and allowing them to do things their parents absolutely forbid. Then when they become smelly, cranky and out-right obnoxious I will send them home with their parents. Sounds like great fun without the responsibility. I can hear it now, "But Mom, Grandpa John says that @#%&!! isn't really a bad word because it's in the bible", "Grandpa John said it was o.k. to pee outside as long as nobody is looking" or "But Grandpa John does it all the time".