Friday, July 03, 2009

Grandma


Have you noticed that the older people get, the more opinionated and outspoken they become? My 94 year old grandmother is a sweet, holy, Norwegian, assembly of God pastor's wife. Over the past few years she has kind of surprised us at times with comments she makes. So tonight I was talking to her on the phone and mentioned that there would be another little Pereira joining us soon. First she said, "What brought that on?" and then without waiting for a reply she added, "What are you going to do, populate that whole area?" I said, "Grandma, YOU had SIX children you know." This line of reasoning didn't phase her in the least. "What are you going to do?" she asked, as if I am the first person in the history of women to have four children. We had a very similar conversation when I told her about the third child. I just laughed.

2 comments:

Greg and Allison then came Four said...

That is hilarious. :)

The Fish Family said...

That is classic! I love it. Tim's mom had her mother say with #2, "Are you a heifer cow or something?" and my mom had my Mimi say with number #3 after an 8 yr. gap, "Aren't you too old to still be having kids?" Mom was only 30 years old!! Must be that generation. Put it in the baby book for sure!