I surf on a team with several people. One of them is going to be a grandmother again this August, and this time she will be having her first granddaughter. She spends a lot of time looking after her grandchildren, so that both parents can return to work, and she says that the experience of looking after grandchildren is much nicer than when she had her own children, because she feels more relaxed about them as she has more experience and she can also hand them back at the end of the day, so no sleepless nights!

We spent a lovely session surfing thinking about baby shower ideas, names for the baby, baby clothes and general baby talk. Funny how talk of babies makes everyone on the team interested, even the chaps wanted to chip in.

Her daughter in law is not having a particularly good time whilst pregnant, with lots of minor health problems, and no-one can wait now until August for the baby to be born. A good thing we do not remember all the problems once our children are born, or all families would end up with only one child.

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