I Need a Home!!

Hi Grandma...What are you doing there? Is that my picture on your computer. Aren't I the cutest little thing!!! Can I get a little bit closer and see what you are typing???
Internets, meet my first Grandchild Gizmo. I know, I know, I always talk about the 2-legged ones, but this is the actual first one. Gizmo. He is a 5 year old full bred male Shih Tzu. He weighs 10 pounds. He owns my daughter and SIL. He is a really good dog. He is fully housebroken, doesn't run out the front door when it is open and goes on walk abouts, like someone I know. (*cough* Cesar *cough*).

Gizmo is an indoor dog who needs to find a new home....*crying in my coffee here*. Gizmo needs a home without small children. He does very well with other dogs, cats, older children, even bunnies, hey Mr. Fab you out there? He would do very well with someone who works from home and needs some loving after being kicked in the balls. On second thought, maybe not he is dark brown and black coloring, he would probably get lost in the office.

As I said, Gizmo is a house dog and would love a family. He does not tolerate toddlers or small children who would want to be picking him up all the time. Believe me, if Miss Britts children were older, I would be dropping him off on Avi's doorstep for her!!

Shih Tzu's are hypo allergenic. Which means there is no dander. They do not have fur, they have hair. Gizmo has been kept shaved pretty closely, so he will never develop the long flowing coat that they are so well known for. Besides, that long hair is a lot of work.

Look at my face!! Aren't I just the cutest little thing???

Seriously, we do need to find Gizmo a new home. He bit GK#2 in the ear this last week and drew quite the bit of blood. Gizmo does not stand a chance around my very active, sturdy 23 month old Grandchild. We are trying to avoid taking him to the SPCA. If they would take him, the local SPCA's are pretty much over capacity in our community. Due mainly to the foreclosures that Florida is going through. But that is a whole other post.

Gizmo is a great little dog and if someone in the vast blogging world of Florida is interested in this prize, you can email me at trishk_fl at yahoo dot com or post a comment here.

We may even be able to arrange visitation for a few hours, just to see how everyone gets along.

Gotcha Day

Legacy of an Adopted Child
Once there were two women who never knew each other..
One you do not remember, the other you call mother.
Two different lives, shaped to make You one...
One became your guiding star, the other became your sun.
The first gave you life and the second taught you to live it.
The first gave you a need for love, and the second was there to give it.
One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name.
One gave you a seed of talent, the other gave you an aim.
One gave you emotions, the other calmed your fears.
One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried your tears.
One gave you up ... that's all she could do.
The other prayed for a child and God led her straight to you.
And now you ask me, through your fears,
the age old question unanswered throughout the years...
Heredity or environment .. Which are you the product of..
Neither, my darling .. neither..
just two different kinds of love.

One year ago tomorrow, March 8, this Angel

Legally became GK #2!!!

I know, more of my grandkid...but they are so cute!!

Awww, the boy loves his basket protector..look he even goes for rides in it!! Longaberger baskets and protectors..gotta love em!

I can't believe how big he is getting.

















GK#2's adoption was finalized in
March, 2007. My daughter and SIL went through hell to get it completed.

They met the birth mother through a friend, when she was 4 months pregnant. At that time, she was in the process of considering an adoption agency for her baby. She knew she couldn't care for the child, she was 19 years old, homeless, no family support.

She met my daughter and SIL and decided that she wanted them to adopt her baby. They had been trying for some time to have a baby. First Daughter had a molar pregnancy, not fun. We had to do a lot of Internet searching to find out what that was. (the Dr was no help). Her next pregnancy a year later ended up being tubal and which exploded and she almost died.

So, when this angel dropped into their lives we were all thrilled. Attorneys, psychologists for birth mother, everything. Birth mother ended up being induced three weeks early. The kids still hadn't had their home study completed. Daughter and SIL were at the birth, as were some "friends" of the birth mother. Home study gets completed day after birth.

Now this is where things got a little sticky. The hospital knew this was an adoption. They knew daughter was the adoptive mother. The only reason GK #2 was in the room with the birth mother was because she had requested it and the kids agreed. The hospital while daughter is at the home study encouraged birth mother to breast feed. Needless to say, birth mother changes her mind. Her "friends" tell her that they will help her, she can live with them..etc.

6 weeks later birth mother shows up at daughters house and tells daughter and SIL that she changed her mind again. The next day all parties go to attorney, birth mother turns GK #2 over to daughter and SIL. That day was my daughters birthday.

It did take 9 more months to complete the adoption. Everything had to be done all over again. You know, there are more inspections, background checks, health checks, home studies done, yet any yahoo can get pregnant.

Birth mother gave birth 2 months ago to a baby girl. I hope she can take care of this one.

I really have no ill will towards birth mother. In the end she did the right thing and gave us a beautiful, grandchild. For that I will always be grateful. I can never forgive her for the hell she put my daughter and SIL through the night she sent a text message saying she changed her mind.

For those of you out there tired of me talking about my grandkids...

Don't tell me that Not A Grampy doesn't love this dog!



















He gave up his pillow... This is thrown in because everything above was getting really heavy...but this is the new furniture with dog and pillow.

Maybe the next post will be about all the different cars Not A Grampy has had in the last two years...
Stay tuned, I have pictures of them also!!

and because I am a whore for Mr. Fab..Colleen still has a sweet ass

My Grandchildren (I'm still not a Granny)

I realize the blog name here may confuse a few people. When my son called me at work 4 years ago to tell me that he and his girlfriend would be presenting his parents with a grandchild in a few months, my first thought was, sh*t, I am too young for this. Later that evening when they came over they wanted to know what I wanted to be called, NaNa, gammy, granny...I'm like no way, I am either Grandma or nothing! (I know it is kind of sick by for me Grandma sounds younger)

GK#1 is 4 years old now, he doesn't speak much. He can say daddy, mama, that is about it. He has developed his own sign language. GK #1 hears fine, he has been diagnosed with Apraxia. I am not going into the whole mess with what it is, if you really want to know you can look it up. Our problem is, our son and DIL have separated. Another post will fill you in on the trials and tribulations with my DIL and her family.

GK#2 is our daughter and SIL's child. He is adopted. It was a private adoption, that was cancelled, then back on. My Daughter and SIL took care of birth mother, attended the birth and were told 1 day after the birth that birth mother changed her mind. What a hell night at my house. I have never seen my SIL so distraught. Even when daughter had the tubal pregnancy and we almost lost her, he sort of held it together. Not a Grampy had to pick him up from the street when the birth mother sent a text message that she had changed her mind.

6 weeks later, on June 6, 2006 they get a phone call from the birth mother, she is changing her mind again. Note: June 6 is my daughter's birthday. After contacting their attorney again, on June 6 at 7pm GK #2 was at their house. Adoption was finalized in March 2007. Birth Mother is still involved in their lives. Much to my dismay, but that is part of the agreement. Now that she has had another child, a girl, that may change.

So now, may I present the pride and joy of our lives..(well besides the new boobs and the dog!!!)





It is going to kill me to not be able to hug and kiss and hold these guys for a while!!