02/21/2024
I believe this is one of my first public posts possibly my very first I’m not entirely certain. Let me preface by saying I love my granddaughter Lily to a level in an away I didn’t think was possible to love another person like I love my granddaughter like I used to love, my daughter. My granddaughter After called me granddad one time not all that long ago Marcy Tomlinson heard Lily say it❣️❣️❣️♥️♥️♥️ I melted into a puddle, and I will carry that memory for the rest of my life iand to my end days❣️❣️❣️♥️♥️♥️ all the old timers, which I most definitely qualify for now 😂😂😂 that I used to work with when I was a young apprentice and journeyman all told me when you get to be a grandparent you’ll know Love like you’ve never known love before. Understand what they were saying at the time, as I was far too young, and I had not had enough seasoning in life. All those old timers, those Grampas, those great grandpa that told me when I was a young man being a grandparent or I guess in this case for me a granddad and since that’s what my granddaughter picked that’s what she gets to call me because I can’t think of anything else better. Sorry to deviate there. If anything, undersold, being a grandparent, being a granddad, is one of the best things in my life Next To marrying my wife the birth of my son Austin Tyler Tomlinson, the birth of my daughter Jamie Nicole Nyberg, my daughter being saved from a terrible infection that, according to the surgeon said would have killed her if he hadn’t acted immediately, my granddaughter, After Lily, being born and last is a amalgamation of a couple memories where I melted into a puddle first time Lily said grandpa the first time she asked to drink out of my big ice water mug. The first time she made sure to bring it to me because I needed a drink the first time she went and got my mug from the living room in her mom and dad’s house because marcy and I were having to go back to Saginaw the first time she said granddad. I knew she would have to call me granddad for the rest of my life first because of how I felt but second because that was her choice. That’s what she chose that she wanted to call me And considering the fact that she really can’t talk a whole lot at least not that I understand as well as I’d like with my hearing disability that one was crystal clear and Marcy heard it too. I asked her did you hear what I heard and then I asked her to tell me what she said just to make sure because I thought I might be hallucinating lol. The suffice to say this post is for the world to know being an elder to grandchildren and grandchildren and however, many great one gets to live to experience is quite possibly the most thing I have ever experienced. And for those are you who have been adopted or who have adopted children, or your children might adopt Blood means nothing when it comes to that because the first day I met my grandma Tomlinson face-to-face was the day. My mom and dad were getting married. It was 1975 May 23. I was a five-year-old little boy and she parked at the Baptist Church in Midland, just down the street from Northeast With my grandpa. She came out the backside of my Ford F150 pick up truck and she sprinted across just about the whole parking lot almost from the old basketball hoops to where we were almost at the entrance but still in the parking lot. I may not have Tomlinson blood, but I had my my grandma Tomlinson love as she scooped me up and squeezed me so tight telling me she loved me and then she couldn’t wait to finally meet me and she was so happy to have been able to do that this day May 23, 1975. Suffice to say I understand my grandma Tomlinson and I’ve always understood my grandma MacDonald who loved me every day of her life never said crossword to me, and was always kind and loving and never stop loving me for one moment. I thought I’d share that with the world. Love your grandkids, no matter how they come to you even if there isn’t a actual familiar connection through adoption or birth know that the time those little ones were in your life you were a grandparent to them. ❣️❣️❣️♥️♥️♥️
