Being a grandmother is like a flower opening its petals to the warm sun, like dunking your tickly toes in the ocean, like soaring in the sky like a bird. My love for Emily is so great, it fills my heart with joy. Emily makes me laugh when she says on the telephone, Grandma, I'm sitting on your son! She amazes me by stating, there are no aliens on earth, only people. As she explores her world with a wonder and freshness that is uniquely hers, I too enter her world and forge the unbreakable bonds of grandmother and granddaughter that will endure over time.