Monday, April 30, 2018

Gleaning Facebook: Grandshaw & Clemmie

Sheila said something nice about me so I want to save it here, in case she later decides to delete it.

Sheila: Clementine is snoozing through our last full day in CA.
She is a sweetheart. So is her GranShaw. 
❤️❤️❤️



 


Comments


Beth Shaw
She's so pretty!!!

Sheila Matthews Shaw
Yes she is!

Ruth Baird Shaw
She is an absolutely Beautiful baby girl!

Wendy Gardiner Johnson
She’s SO TINY! 

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Sheila Matthews Shaw
Yes, I’m surprised how small she seems considering she was 8 lbs 14 oz, about 2 lbs bigger than either Brannon or Lillian at birth!

Rhonda Davis
Aww, sweet pic!

Kathy Vogler Steinbruegge
So peaceful!

Tersi Bendiburg
Aww...

Kathryn Neason Adams
Granshaw has his name. What's yours? I KNOW you will be sad to leave !

Later Note from Terrell) 
Kathryn, Sheila is going to follow in the tradition of her family and be called "Granny" but she insists that it should pronounced as Lady Mary would pronounce it in Downton Abbey!

Carol Payne
Happiness +++

Susan S. Carter
Shelia, she is beautiful! Congratulations to all

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Cathy Nichols
Just pack her up and bring her home......lol

Laurie Craw
She's dreaming of GEORGIA! Bring her back...

Claire Clowdus
Precious!


La Donna Turrentine
Precious!

Marsha Yancey Atkins
Such a beautiful little girl!

Anita Stewart
I know you are already planning the next trip to see your sweet girls. Hapoy grandparenting. GrandShaw!

Sheila Matthews Shaw
You are right about planning the next trip!

Ann Allee McRay
A precious picture to be cherished.

Ace Theshepherd
So sweet! WhT part of Southern California are they in? We will be in the Anaheim/Laguna Beach area next February for about 10 days

Janet Chapman
So adorable Dona, & hope she’ll be closer for visiting, too

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Jake-Gale Redmon
Preciousness!!

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Clementine’s Family at Two Weeks

Clementine Georgia Carlin at two weeks old, with her Mom and Dad.

Clementine with GrandShaw


Clementine and Granny



Comments:

Laurie Craw
2 weeks already? Well, now it's Baby Time All the Time....


Ruth Pinson
Oh, how sweet!!!!


Terrell Shaw
Shelly Burkhalter
do you remember that you and your friends hosted a baby shower/party for Brannon when she was a baby and you were third or fourth grade


Shelly Burkhalter
No, I don’t, but that sounds like something we would have done. pastedGraphic.png

I remember your wok-fried squid and Ed and Tony’s seaweed though! Thirty-five years goes by so quickly.


Brenda Greeson Giles
Terrell Shaw
, one of my favorite memories of you is you handing out Baby Ruth's when Lillian Ruth was born. I thought that was so cool.


Terrell Shaw
Actually it was Brannon Ruth ... Lillian Matthews Shaw came five years later. 

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Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
That went by quickly! She looks like a very satisfied little lady! Beautiful family.


Nancy Johal Singh
They all look great!!!


Frank Logue
I love this so much


Julie Puckett

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Anita Stewart
Proud parents, beautiful baby!


Brenda Greeson Giles
My bad. But it's still a good memory. 

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Patricia Buffington Jackson
Beautiful family.


 

Gleaning Facebook: Human and Avian Nurseries

John and his dad, Danny, get started on the flooring in the nursery.

The hummingbird family chose this very small tree, on sale at Lowe’s in Vista, CA for a home.You’ll notice that caution tape and a “Do Not Sell” notice have been applied to the tree by humans.

The tiny nest is glued to a small branch...

...and now holds at least one young’n’.



Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Gleaning Facebook: Clemmie is going to be okay; What about others




One busy week! Oh how wonderful it is to see this beautiful little girl so alert and pink and healthy looking. And her Mom looks absolutely beautiful too. Huge pieces of my heart are in this picture.

Many of Clementine’s tubes and other attachments have been removed. She is eating well. We hope the feeding tube will be removed tomorrow morning. The fears of a week ago ago are all but gone and we are in great and thankful anticipation of taking Clementine Georgia Carlin home to Vista in a few days.
Thanks to all our friends for the kind words of encouragement and hope, for your prayers and warm thoughts, and for the great love we have felt this week.
Spending many hours in the waiting areas and halls of the wonderful Rady Children’s Hospital we have seen lots of frightened parents, brave kids, and dedicated, caring health workers from custodians and receptionists and snack shop clerks and parking attendants to nurses and doctors.
Warning, Heartfelt Political Statement ahead —
As the grandfather of a child born into an expensive emergency medical storm, I pray for the day when Americans covenant together to share the costs of our health needs like the rest of the developed world does. I ache for the folks who must face such circumstances without the financial safeguards that our Clementine enjoys. The tears and fears I and my loved ones have endured this week could have been much worse. If we can share the costs of roads and missiles and water systems and education and hurricane recovery, we can share the costs of healthcare. Amen.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Gleaning Facebook: Meeting Clementine

Clementine and her Mom and Dad right after her birth and before the medical problems were recognized.


What a joy to finally meet our granddaughter and to get to hug our brave daughter and her wonderful husband. Clementine had a setback that will mean a few extra hospital days... but Rady Children’s Hospital is taking good care of her and she’s going to be fine. Ain’t she pretty? And her little squashed noggin is regaining its shape.

John’s Mom Renata met us at the airport and delivered us immediately to the hospital... now we’re visiting in the waiting area while J&B are with Clementine.

Clementine on her birthday after she and her Dad arrived at Ray Children's hospital

Clementine today.



Lots of our friends responded to this post, as you can see. We are so thankful for the outpouring of love, concern, and prayers for Clementine and her parents.

Comments:

Nancy Johal Singh She is beautiful like her mama and grandma!!!!


Kathy Vogler Steinbruegge She is beautiful!

David Matheny awwwwwww!!!!

Patricia Buffington Jackson Beautiful baby!


Rebecca Waugh She is absolutely beautiful!

Leean Frazier Keanum Beautiful !!

Brian Sikes Beautiful baby and Mama! Welcome to the world, Clementine!

Rose McDonald Darby Such sweetness.

Rita Lawler Beauty reigns! Have a wonderful visit. Congratulations.

Ann Perkins Niemeier What a beautiful baby!

Chereta Gordon Congratulations 

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Barbara Carlin McKinney She is beautiful, looks like I need to take a trip to Rady;s to get to see all of you.

Sandy Doughty She's precious!

Julie Hatfield Burton She is so angel!! Beautiful!! Congratulation!!!

Sandra Caruso A picture of perfection. So sweet.

Sunny Shropshire Knauss Just beautiful!!

Dana Jordan Alexander
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Ann Allee McRay She is beautiful!!!

Susan Barnes Babb Beautiful mama and baby!

Marsha Yancey Atkins Precious!

Sara Mitchell Lynch So precious!


Frank Logue Love. Love. Love. What a blessed baby.

Stacie Hembree Buffington How precious

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette They are both beautiful! Prayers for a speedy recovery.


Debbie Carter Reed Precious little bundle of joy !


Frank Norris How nice!

Barbara Jean Smith Beautiful


Jim Howell Congratulations

Diane Conti Precious!

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Melanie Collette Babb She is beautiful.


Nena Dake Precious!

Wendy Davis Sending love and prayers for steady progress for your sweet girl!


Wendell W Barnes Jr Beautiful baby and mom!

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Cornelia Gamble Are they calling her Clementine or Georgia?


Terrell Shaw Clementine


Cornelia Gamble Wonderful!


Bitsy Burton What a cutie and love the name Clementine! Prayers for that sweet baby! 

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Dona Ward Beautiful!


Judy Hyde Allen Congratulations to the family!! There is nothing better than a grand baby!!

Sandra Popham She is absolutely beautiful! So excited for everyone.

Leslie Rainey Shelley She is beautiful! Nothing compares to grandparenting!

Juanita Mull So happy for you all. Best gift you will ever receive.

Melissa Bowman Beautiful!

Freda McDowell Gipson Congratulations! She is beautiful! There's nothing like being a grandparent!

Shelly Burkhalter Sweet girl. 

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Linda Stutmann Congratulations. Grand children are the best.

Rhonda Davis She’s beautiful! 

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Teresa A Ware oh wow, what a little beauty she is. Congratulations to all and best wishes and good health.

Anita Stewart How wonderful! J know the entire family is excited about little Clementine.

Ann Gore She is beautiful! Praying that she continues to improve! Brannon looks great! Grandparents look so happy to be there with them!


Lester Brookshire Congratulations! Happy all is well.

Teresa Martens Dulaney Precious!

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La Donna Turrentine Beautiful!

Granshaw Letter One

April 12, 2018

To my darling Clementine,

What a determined girl you have already shown yourself to be. For 27 hours you struggled, pushing and pulling and stretching to enter the world . How bravely your mother labored with you all that time.

And Granshaw? I was blissfully unaware, going about my business in the ridges and valleys of Northwest Georgia, bragging to anyone who allowed small-talk that I would soon greet my granddaughter. I had no name for you and didn’t know when to expect you beyond the general window of “around April 8.”  How I wish I could have been there to hold your mother’s hand, or run an errand, or been of some kind of use.
You gave us a real scare, you know. And even now, two days later, as Granny and I cross the continent many thousands of feet above the border between Louisiana and Texas, on our way to meet you for the first time, I know you are lying with tubes helping you breathe and feed, and straps pressing sensors to your skin to monitor your vital functions. Your wonderful parents are close by you, aching to get their hands on you, to hug you, to feel your tiny hands grasping fingers or hair. So are your Carlin grandparents and Aunts Sarah and Lillian, Uncle Jim and others. We are confident of your strength now, and know the day will come soon when we each will get that sqeeze. But, oh, how we long for it.

I wrote to your Mom when she was only an infant. I told her that I knew that she was a person of great strength. I don’t know how I knew it, but I did. And I was right. She is a person of character, and determination, and deep love. I have watched her with your Dad and see the love they share, and I see those same traits in my son-in-law, and now in you. You had a great struggle getting here, you persevered, and I know that those traits will carry you through the hard times and enrich the good times. I look forward to getting to see some of those times myself. 

My father was named Granshaw by your cousin Joey. He said something about his grandfather and his Dad asked, “Do you mean Granddaddy Johnston?” “No,” Joey responded, “You know, Gran..Shaw!” Well my Daddy has been gone since 1986. When my sister Carol and Debi and Joan were sitting with me and my Mother and your Granny recently, they asked what I’d want you to call me. One suggested Granshaw. I wondered  if I had a right to that name! My sisters seemed to like the idea, so I guess that will be it, unless, of course, you exercise every granddaughter's prerogative and give me a name of your own choosing.

I hope I get lots of chances to talk with you. but at 71 I suppose it is practical, if also a little morbid, to suppose I ought to be as proactive as possible, just in case. I want you to know a little about me, and Granny, and my parents, and theirs.... all the wonderful people who made me who I am, and who would love you just as much as I do.  But I want to know all about you too! Your questions, and dreams, and wonders.

So this is Granshaw Letter One of, I hope, many. One of these days, I hope you will begin to respond yourself. Maybe till then your Mom and Dad will keep us abreast of all your doings across the continent.
I promise you this, for all the spins of this big globe, across all the miles between us, through every joy and deep into every sorrow, at the apex of every triumph and into the depths of every dispair, I will love you to the moon and back. That’s a promise.

So you can always look up at that old moon and imagine my love in an endless stream of kisses banking off its shining face from wherever I am and down to wherever you are, Clementine Georgia Carlin, my eldest granddaughter. I love you.

-Granshaw


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April 19, 2019
Clementine Georgia Carlin on Day One and Day Eight

Monday, April 09, 2018

Gleaning Facebook: Richard & Teresa at Little Dry Creek

From Richard Ware's Facebook --

 Little Dry Creek Natural Area • Floyd County, Georgia • 4/3/2018.


Trillium georgianum (Georgia Least Trillium)


Sisyrinchium atlanticum (Atlantic Blue-eyed-grass)



Gelsemium sempervirens (Carolina Jessamine)



Arisaema pusillum (Small Jack-in-the-pulpit)


Nothoscordum bivalve (False Garlic)




Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood)

Cardamine bulbosa (Bulbous Bittercress)

Sisyrinchium atlanticum (Atlantic Blue-eyed-grass)

 
Clematis fremontii (Fremont's Leatherflower)



Packera crawfordii (Crawford’s Ragwort)