My firstborn is pregnant with her firstborn and she glows. As I look at her I wonder if I looked like that when I was carrying her. Her skin glows, her hair is thick and full and her back has that distinct arch that an expectant mother has. Was I like that?

It was over 29 years ago when I experienced my first pregnancy but seeing Karley carrying her first child brings it back like it was yesterday. I loved being pregnant and I guess that's one of the reasons why I did it three times. Her baby is kicking now and I remember that feeling; the jab to the bladder, the ripple across the abdomen. When I look at her, it is difficult to believe that she was flipping somersaults inside me at one time. There is a calm in Karley's energy, a deep, loving peacefulness that only someone carrying a much-wanted child can possess. This child is very loved already by everyone involved; Karley, Ian, Ian's parents and us.

Expected babies have a way of making people who are about to become grandparents reflect on the past so we can use it to prepare for the future. When I was much younger I was in a hurry to see my children grow up because I didn't have the wisdom then that comes with time. Now I know the importance of relishing every minute, living in the moment and I have become aware of how quickly time moves by. I will have the pleasure of showering this baby with a love less encumbered by youthful ignorance and poor parenting techniques learned from past generations.

Karley may be glowing with the hormones of pregnancy but we are all glowing with the anticipation of our first grandchild.