Sugar and Spice and everything nice.

Livvy Ellen , our newest grandbaby.It was interesting to learn that Livvy was Mark Twain's wife name. We welcome her to our family and are glad to have her here.

Drew telling about her new baby after a rendition of Old Mac Donald.

What an experience. Peru is a land of many wonders. From perauhnea and pink dolphins in the Amazon to the Inca ruins in the high Andes with the small Chetchuwa people. It was a trip of a life time.

Welcome Livvy!

Hurray! She's here. Livvy Ellen Schwartz arrived today about four thirty this afternoon, March 17, St. Patricks Day. She weighed 6 lbs. 10 oz and was 20 in long. Mother and baby are both doing well. We are so happy to have her join our family. Drew isn't too sure about her yet though. Anna is flying out tomorrow and staying for a week. I am in Peru right now and go out as soon as I get home. We have been in the Amazon the past three days and are going to the Inca Ruins in Cuzco the next few days.

Well, anyway, welcome to our new grand daughter.

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, "Daddy, I need to ask you something," he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.

Musings of a Grandma

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world calls her grandmother.

Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents.