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The experience of becoming a grandfather is sufficiently different from becoming a father for the first time that it merits to capture the feelings and emotions that one would experience before the arrival of the first grandchild.
The experience acquired after the first child is born gives a more mature perspective on life that is worthwhile sharing with the grandchild to be born.
May this diary contribute to enhance, enrich, and support the experience of all those that might have the golden opportunity of becoming grandparents. It is a thrilling and invigorating moment of life that feels like one’s life experience of having become a father is rewarded because one can re-live that moment without having to deal with the immediate responsibilities of first-time fatherhood.

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	30 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669849759
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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I AM GOING TO BE YOUR GRANDFATHER
Reynaldo Pareja

Copyright © 2022 by Reynaldo Pareja.

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Rev. date: 09/29/2022

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Contents
The Pregnancy
Introduction
April 29, 2014
May 5, 2014
June 15, 2014
June 25, 2014
July 17, 2014
July 25, 2014
July 27, 2014
July 30, 2014
August 9, 2014
September 3, 2014
September 23, 2014
November 4, 2014
November 8, 2014
From Birth To Two Years Old
November 21, 2014
Nov. 23. 2014
November 27, 2014
December 1S t, 2014
December 7, 2014
December 11, 2014
December 21, 2014
December 26, 2014
June 7, 2015
June 11, 2015
June 25, 2015
September 10, 2015
December 2015
February 2016
March, 2016
April, 2016
May 7, 2016
May 9, 2016
May 11, 2016
May 14, 2016
June17, 2016
July 21, 2016
August 15, 2016
August 18, 2016
September 11, 2016
October 14, 2016
October 25, 2016
November 13, 2016
November 17, 2016
November 20-21, 2016
November 24, 2016
November 25, 2016
December 3, 2016
THE PREGNANCY
Introduction
Seldom does a grandfather-to-be has the mindset or energy to sit down and write to the grandchild to-be-born a series of letters telling him/her what impressions he was having while the pregnancy was evolving. Many feel that this is more the area of experience of the father-to-be when he is waiting for the arrival of his first son.
Yet, the experience of becoming a grandfather is sufficiently different that it merits to capture the feelings and emotions that I would experience before my grandchild was to arrive. The writing exercise revived some of the feelings and emotions that I experienced when my first-born child was in my wife’s womb. Yet, there was a difference. The life experience acquired from more than thirty years since my first son was born has given me a more mature perspective on life that I thought it would be appropriate to share it with my grandchild to be born. That life experience has impregnated my vision with a richer frame of reference because there are many lessons learned that I judged I should include in this reflection of becoming a grandfather.
Since I was living outside the US, I was forced to follow the pregnancy from a distance, thus limiting the time I could dedicate to writing a diary of the impressions I experienced of those pregnancy months. Because of this, my impressions and number of letters were reduced, so I judged to be befitting that I prolonged the dairy to cover the first two years of development of the grandchild. This would give me a longer period of follow-up time as well as giving my wife and I several opportunities to be with the grandchild and experience firsthand the impressions of his/her growth process. This growth phase is marvelous in every child as he/she begins to develop the basic abilities of survival. It is a wonderful process of learning that never ceases to be a magical moment of their existence. Capturing it will be my testament that I can give my grandchild as an anticipation of what to expect when he/she becomes a grandparent.
May this diary contribute to enhance, enrich, and support the experience of all those that might have the golden opportunity of becoming grandparents.
APRIL 29, 2014
Dear grandson or granddaughter,
Today, Leo, your Dad gave us the most wonderful surprise. Your grandmother just received the most beautiful birthday present: the announcement that your Mother was pregnant with you!
What great news for us, your grandparents! Your Dad married your Mom five years ago, but both had decided they would wait until they felt they were both ready to become parents. This year Leo mentioned to us that he felt he was ready to become a daddy. Your Mom was also ready because she had frequent thoughts as to how that moment would be.
But now, it is a fact.! Your Mom is expecting you. She showed us the eco-sonogram of your 7 weeks of existence inside her womb, the most perfect and wonderful home that you will ever have. Everything you need to grow and mature to become a full-term baby is inside of her and you are the king (queen) of that home. There, you will receive the nourishment you require to grow day by day, week by week until you finally are ready to step out into this huge world of ours and become another member of this incredible human race that we are.
Your Grandmother is ecstatic with the news. She was so pleased to hear the announcement made by your Mom to us in Spanish (our mother tongue) precisely as a birthday present for your Grandma. It is the best birthday present she has received in a long time, thanks to your now undeniable presence.
I was speechless with emotion; could barely talk to your Dad to congratulate him on their new and most exciting moment of his life. He had been preparing for this moment with so much diligence and dedication that I know the next seven months of your development are going to be for him some of the most memorable months of his life. He is going to keep track of every moment of the pregnancy as I did with his birth. He might do it through this same medium of letter writing to you as he experiences all these magnificent emotions and feelings in becoming a Dad.
If he does not decide to write you any letters, I will take advantage of this opportunity because it is my first time in becoming a Grandfather. My emotions and feelings run high and intensive. If I do not capture them as I live the moment, I will probably lose track of how happy the news made me. On the one hand, the pride and happiness your Dad is experiencing at this moment is similar to the happiness experienced when I heard that your Grandmother was expecting Leo, your Dad. On the other hand, becoming a Grandad is another extraordinary moment in our lives. It is remembering and reliving the exceptional emotion of becoming conscious that in a very close, intimate manner that we, as grandparents, are contributing to the possibility of another life appearing on Earth as the promise of a great person you will become one day.
It is not a small contribution to our evolution to have facilitated your appearance into Existence. We are so proud, excited, and happy that we have contributed to this possibility by having your father born, thirty-two years ago.
Feel, beautiful granddaughter or grandson, that you are most welcome to our mist; to be part of our family. We shall contribute all that is in our power that the best we have to offer will one day make you into a giant of the Spirit as your Dad is.
Welcome to our arms, grandson-granddaughter; welcome because you have been awaited silently for many years and now you are slowly, but surely, becoming that beautiful reality of being our granddaughter-grandson and making us one of the proudest and happiest Grandparents in the world.
Your Grandad who loves you already.
MAY 5, 2014
Dear grandson (granddaughter),
It is now eight weeks of growth since we heard the incredible news that your Mom was pregnant with you. What a delightful surprise!
We have had to adjust to this unexpected news because your parents had decided they were going to wait at least two more years before deciding whether they wanted to bring a baby into their world. Because of this prolonged delay, our friends made fun calling us “infertile grandparents”. Although the term had its comical side, it reminded us that we were not grandparents yet, and that we probably had to wait a while before it would happen.
Confirmation of your existence is beyond doubt. You have started the amazing process of becoming a new human being with the potentiality of one day developing into the person that will leave a deep footprint in history, much the same way your Dad is already doing.
Yet, the price of becoming such a new being is high. Your Mom is the one enduring the impact you are having on her. She is now in the morning sickness phase which has not been easy. Your growth produces in her such an upheaval of internal changes that are strongly felt in her morning discomforts. Hopefully the phase will not last too long until her organism finally accepts your presence and allows her to resume some of her regular activities, but surely at a slower pace.
Her last medical checkup showed that everything was just fine. Your development is steady, strong, and on time. It won’t be long before your Mom and Dad will be able to hear your heartbeat. They are going to be thrilled when it happens. It is a one-time experience that is sublime.
Keep growing strong, dear grandson-granddaughter, so that one day we can do many things together.
Your granddad that loves you
JUNE 15, 2014
Dear granddaughter-grandson,
It has been a few days since I last wrote you a letter. It happened because I went through a recuperation phase from my open-heart surgery, especially the adjustment to the pills I was given. One or two