I was pretty sure I’d never be a Mom. But I got to scratch my Mommy itch when Tabitha and I became Big and Little Sisters a long, long time ago.
Now she’s a Mom and I’m loving that Ryker calls me Grandma Lisa. He is smart and hilarious and interested and interesting and a fascinating little person.
This photo is from last Christmastime, at my house. He opened a present on his own for the first time that day. He wasn’t as much into hugs as he is now. And he certainly wasn’t talking up a storm like he is now.
This Christmas, he’ll talk our ears off and exhaust us, as a toddler should. I may not have given birth to any children, but these two (and Tabitha’s partner Nick) bring out the maternal – and now the grandma – instinct in me.