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Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 7:59 AM
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This 'salty one' is a granddad! 
Ari - 2 months/Elliott - one week (and clearly skeptical about what he's gotten himself into!)
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That's awesome!!! Congratulations G-dad!!!***
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:00 AM
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:02 AM
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Congrats!!
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Lol, I can imagine Elliot is thinking, "What the Hey, this ain't NEARLY as warm
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:08 AM
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and cozy as where I was a month ago!" Seeing the outside world for the first time has got to be traumatic for a newborn, especially the journey to the outside.
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Legend [16874]
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Yup...LOL...
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:29 AM
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He arrived a month early. Told his mom good thing he didn't go to term! But, that look!
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Re: Yup...LOL...
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Feb 9, 2024, 1:37 PM
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Yes sir, that young man has quite a serious look, and from here on out, I think you and mom are going to have your hands full!!!
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Congratulations!!***
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:10 AM
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The look in the second picture is priceless!
The first one, too!
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:13 AM
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Yea!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!! Start spoiling him now... it's your right as a grandfather.
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:39 AM
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Spoiling them is fun. When my first grandchild was about four I took him out and while we were in the store I bought him a Mountain Dew and some Reese’s peanut butter cups. When I got him home he was wired and my daughter asked me why I gave it to him and I said, “because that’s what he wanted.” Meanwhile I went home and left her to deal with him.
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Legend [16874]
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I'm taking notes!
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:02 AM
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:47 AM
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Congrats Grandpa! Love the pics! Having grandkids is amazing!
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Watch that one closely.
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:04 AM
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He's got that crazy eyes 😉
Congerts!!
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Re: Watch that one closely.
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Feb 9, 2024, 1:43 PM
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I would say more of a serious look than crazy!!! 
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Congrats! That is great news!***
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:08 AM
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:15 AM
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Congratulations!
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Frosh Class of '42?? TWENTY 42??
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:35 AM
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Wow - at first I thought it was a reflective post from 1942, but now I realize that a baby born today would be a freshman in 2042. That's nuts!
Aren't we supposed to have flying cars and sky cities by then?
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That's actually scary...
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:44 AM
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Moving folks from the roads to the skies! What could go wrong?
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Re: That's actually scary...
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Feb 9, 2024, 1:45 PM
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Anything you could think of would be the correct answer.
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:45 AM
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Beautiful handsome and serious, what an awesome GIFT from Heaven!
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Orange Blooded [4059]
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Congrats, Salty! Terrific family additions!
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:49 AM
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Being a granddad and mostly healthy is the most rewarding work of my life. I have 3 granddaughters. They will have me completely tamed in short order.
And now you get to say (as I enjoy saying in the most embarrassing situations) , “Only amazing human beings are sprung from my loins”.
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Congratulations***
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:50 AM
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 10:09 AM
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Congrats Salty,
My first is due in May. I'm more excited about it than I was with my own.
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Legend [16874]
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We'll all be waiting on the pics!
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Feb 8, 2024, 10:19 AM
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Could be a heckuva Mother's Day for the soon-to-be grandma!
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 9, 2024, 2:13 PM
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I have 4 grandsons and two grand daughters, at 71, nothing has ever filled my heart with unconditional love and happiness since the two days that my 2 daughters were born.
My youngest has passed on, but that feeling when both were born is still just as alive today as it was way back then. The sorrow I feel from losing one daughter is still fresh, but the overwhelming love I've had for her since the day she was born is still as fresh as it was the day she was born, But, my heart breaks everyday since she has been gone from my everyday life, and it doesn't get any easier as time ticks by...
Wow, I'm sorry about high jacking this thread about the loss of my daughter bc I know that no one wants those kinds of thoughts in their head of what if's, if you were in a space where you've lost a child, and that truly wasn't my intentions. But it happens when I get involved talking about the grands, my mind goes straight to my heart and the thought of my personal loss of my youngest daughter, and I'm truly sorry for bringing those kinds of thoughts back to ones that has lost a child, even the ones that's come close to losing a child.
I to love all my grands 4 of then are great, but I have two that are coot fans, and nobody can actually be great with the coots in their heart.
I do think that when grand parents have as many grandkids as I have, unlike your kids, you will have a favorite or two with your grandkids. I do have a grandson that couldn't be any closer to me than if he was my son, and we do a lot of things that I imagine I would have done with a son if I would've had a son. So, I love all my grandkids, but if there ever come a time that I would have to choose between any but one of my grandkids and their parents, my daughters would overwhelmingly have my vote whether they were right or wrong. But grand kids are awesome, and they are the ones that will carry your name into history helping with the family tree branching out...
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I am so, so very sorry!
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Feb 9, 2024, 2:19 PM
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That's a void that can never be filled...and the one thing no parent ever wants...to outlive a child.
You're keeping the memories close, so she's always with you!
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Re: I am so, so very sorry!
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Feb 9, 2024, 2:25 PM
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My love and my thoughts of her never take any time off, and that's the way that it should be for any parent that has lost a child. She was 40 when she passed away, but she will always be a child for me bc she was my child...
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Lol...I thought you were in the class of '42 and had just busted 100!***
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Feb 8, 2024, 10:27 AM
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Hey SALTY55..do you remember your 1st months on Earth?
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Feb 8, 2024, 10:49 AM
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Ha..me neither ole Tiger but bet it was a doozy mixed with confusion & busyness getting acclimated and hoping none around you were Coots!
LOL & Congrats GRAMPS!
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The first memory that has stayed with me was
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Feb 8, 2024, 3:43 PM
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At the airport waiting on my grandfather's flight from England. Apparently, I was going on 2. Seems memories really kick in around 3-4, since I recall more than a few.
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Congratulations!
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Feb 8, 2024, 3:45 PM
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Grandchildren are your reward for raising teenagers. That calls for a celebratory bourbon or three!
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Re: Congratulations!
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:04 PM
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I recall it as enduring their teenage years. And daughters make it even more of a challenge! You dads with more than one daughter have my respect! One is plenty for me!
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88 has 5 daughters!!! I watched him go crazy as
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helllll from late 80s til 2015. What am I saying. Hes was crazy as helllll before and after those dates too!
Daughters and the feeling of protection for them (yes I'm a southern, Clemson, micro-agressing.... sob) is the thing of nightmares! The boogyman
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Re: 88 has 5 daughters!!! I watched him go crazy as
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Feb 9, 2024, 11:05 AM
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I can't even imagine!
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Re: Congratulations!
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There will be those times when endurance will be absolutely needed, and it could lead to failure as a grandparent without it, endurance that is!!!
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Re: Congratulations!
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Trust me, two would have made your life even more exciting. I wanted a grandson, but after the two girls came into our life, we made a conscious decision to stop it at two kids bc we didn't feel that it would be right or fair adding to our family when we already knew there had to be a college fund for two right then, and we didn't feel we could have afforded college for 3 when we knew that making it possible for two was going to be hard enough. We were right bc by the time my girls were ready for college, that was the time that a college education started exploding out of sight for most parents, and if me and my wife hadn't started a college fund for my girls right after daughter #2 arrived, we would have been way up crap creek with hole in the boat and no paddles!!!
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 8, 2024, 4:06 PM
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Congratulations!
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Congrats!! 2 future tigers!!***
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Feb 8, 2024, 11:18 PM
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Love that 2nd picture!!! Lmao!! He's cuttin them eyes!! Cute lil man!!!
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Feb 9, 2024, 10:40 AM
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So happy for you and salty family!!! Good job my friend!
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Congarts!***
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Re: Waited a LONG time to brag: Frosh Class of '42
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Feb 10, 2024, 7:21 AM
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Congratulations! Grandkids are fun.
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I gotcha up to a solid looking "50".....looks better than that "49".***
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