Love and Family

We had the pleasure of visiting our granddaughter just prior to Christmas 2025 and spending several days with her and her parents. This poem written on January 3, 2026, captures those moments of grandparents connecting with their granddaughter in our long distant relationship. It’s been three months and was almost Christmas dayGlad we could be…

As a distant grandparent, I truly value the few face-to-face times we have to enjoy being with our five month old granddaughter. For a week in September 2025, we had an extended cuddle time and a chance to share and be together in ways that facetime simply cannot replace. I held her in my arms…

In June 2025, Line (my wife), Maxime (our son) and I travelled to Alberta to visit the new person in our life – Madeline. This poem was written ten days later to capture this life changing moment. A visit with anticipation and much desireWe’d been in a plane but were feeling much higherWe’d seen only…

On April 24, 2025, my granddaughter was born. This poem is written with love for and to her, the second which I have written about her. Hey baby girl or our little flowerYou are a gift already with powerWe adore the cuteness of your faceAs you sleep with God’s abiding grace You surprised us all…

Written in March 2025, I wrote this about the importance of siblings in our lives, particularly those who are older. They are there when we enter the world, serving as a model and then there throughout life whether they like it or not. When I was born, you were thereYou showed me always how to…

This poem was written in December 2024, at Christmas when my son and daughter-in-law told us the gender of the bay they were expecting to be born in April/May 2025. As my first of what may well be many poems written to ‘baby lamothe’, this was my introduction of myself as her ‘grandpa’. I know…