GRANDMOTHER…GRANDMA… MAMA…MAW MAW…GRANNY…GRAMS…GRAM…BIG MOMMA…GRANDMOMMIE…
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MeMa

 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU CALL HER, SHE IS PROBABLY THE SINGLE MOST “IN YOUR CORNER” PERSON YOU WILL EVER HAVE IN YOUR LIFE…BAR NONE!

 I am the founder of this organization and the grandmother (MeMa) of fourteen grandchildren. I feel that gives me permission to say, “Grandma can be a wonderful part of a child's life”.

It is very true that raising a family is the single most important privilege in which you will ever be allowed to participate. You can look the world over and search your heart completely, but at the end of the day… FAMILY IS EVERYTHING …IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY MATTERS.

 If you can make yourself think ahead to the day OF YOUR DEATH…Now, on that very day, will anything be so important that you would rather have it…than your family? I think if you really allow yourself to feel what that day might feel like, you will agree with me, NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FAMILY! NOTHING!!!

I have talked to several grandmothers helping with their grandchildren. They all say the same thing, “my grandchildren are everything to me”.

One of my favorite sayings
“If I had known grandchildren were gonna be this much fun, I would have had them first!”

I can tell you that being a grandmother has given my an opportunity to make up for being a young mother. All young mothers have the same problem; they love their baby more than anything in this world…and they also have no clue how to raise their precious gift from God. After raising my two sons and helping raise two step-sons, I can tell you from the bottom of my heart, the older you get the easier it is.

I think this might be the time and the place for me to say to my sons, I love you with all my heart. I have always loved you with the same love I have for you today. I do realize that as I have gotten older, so have you…and our relationship has changed as our years have climbed. As I continue to get older, so will you…and as we grow older together…so will your children. I have done the best I could at being your mother, your step-mother and a grandmother to your wonderful children. I pray that God will give you the same strength to grow old that he has so graciously given me. I pray that he will give you the guidance to become a grandparent and love your grandchildren as I love your children now.

My sons Carl and Christopher.

Christopher, I want to tell you and the world how very proud I am of you and what you have become. Neither of us has deserved what has happened with your children, but most of all…they did not deserve to lose their Daddy. The hardest part of all of this…is knowing the truth and not being able to do anything about it. I spend so much time, effort and money trying to fix this horrible mess…for you and for your children. I have pretty much given up everything else in my life. I feel I owe you that much. I cannot bare the thoughts of you being left in this world without me and without them.

You are probably the most caring, honest and forgiving person I have even known.  Even though I raised you to be that way, with all you have been through it amazes me that you can still be that warm person that loves with all his heart.  I remember you with your children and one day they will know the truth.  They will one day know the man you have become and love you again as they did before they were so wrongfully taken from you.

Carl you have given me five wonderful grandchildren…I know they will keep your world happy…and I know you will always be there for them. I am so proud of you and the father you have become. You have done for them what no man ever did for you. My heart is filled with an over abundance of pride in my oldest son. Thank you for becoming what I raised you to be… honest…trustworthy…forgiving…and most of all a loving father.

When I watch you with your children, I am over whelmed with joy at the very site of all that love.

Christopher you are left without the three people that you love most in this world…and that my son is breaking my heart. As the Grandmother (MeMa) of all eight of your children…three from Christopher and five from Carl…I want to thank you for giving me more than I ever deserved…these beautiful grandchildren. No mother has ever been more proud than me. The two of you have made me the richest grandmother in the world. My own mother used to tell me she was the richest woman in the world when it came to her three daughters…even when we were bad. So now…very publicly…I want to say to the two of you,

“I love you both from the very bottom of my heart and I always will.
I am now the richest woman in the world.”

To Lonnie & Jeffrey & Patti

Lonnie, thank you for the pleasure of loving your precious children. I could never have been given such a gift as when you made me their MeMa. Always be there for them and never turn your back, they need you now and they will need you forever. I am proud to say that I had a hand in making you what you are today.

Jeffrey, you haven't had children yet, but if and when you do, I have no doubt that you will love them and care for them and always be there for them. I can see what you have become and I am so very proud to have played a part in that. I will be MeMa to your babies to, should you ever decide to have them.

Patti, thank you for accepting me and allowing me to love you. Though we never lived together, you are your father's daughter and that alone makes me love you.

If grandmothers are allowed to love their grandchildren…they will give them memories that they will never forget. They will share things with them that no one else can…and they will teach them things that no other family member has lived long enough to know.

We would like to invite you to join us in our stand for father's rights, the rights of their children and for the rights of those wonderful grandparents.

You may click “ Who Knows Best ” or “ Who You Count On ” or “Why We Love Them” on the right of this screen and begin to post your feelings. It is time we let the world know who we are, why we fight and why they can count on us.

Where Mothers are the core of the family, grandmothers are the soul. Let it happen, you will never regret it, and your children will never forget it!