And a second generation brings forth a third generation

Who knows where the time goes? [A Judy Collins song]
And if you could see into the future, would you want to?
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Anyway, another friend of mine who I met through teaching stopped over today with her daughter and her first GRANDCHILD! And the baby is a grandson - smiling, toothless, with eyes the windows to a beautiful soul.
I can remember back 30 years[ did I say 30 years?]when we were in our twenties, and babies began to join the families. Diane...music teacher/singer with a voice extraordinaire... was pregnant with her first child, and during prep time you could find her sleeping[I mean resting] on the nurse's 'sick kid' cot. That first trimester can really drain the energy out of you and especially if your chosen profession is nonstop herding[ I mean teaching] kids for seven hours a day.
I personally found that a daily ice cream cone could restore the energy needed to get you to the end of the day. I welcomed a ten pound bouncing boy, and she brought forth a rosy, pink little girl. And so, we [along with other friends and their 'lil chillin']kinda watched together as the kids grew up and celebrated life's small[picnics, ballgames, X Files, Les Mis tickets] achievements and also the milestones[ birthdays, graduations, career choices, weddings].
Diane's daughter is a teacher, and now a mother.
They stopped over and Mom[baby whisperer extraordinaire] got to hold him.
I wondered if while holding him, was she momentarily transported back through time to when she held her son.
And so, I say again...'Who knows where the time goes?