UPDATE...Grandbaby Jenna turned 2 today ....and I didn't even get to see her! :(

**jenluckenbach** · 10-08-2006, 06:56 AM

Dear Kim, what a most difficult situation. {{{{{HUGS}}}}}

Happy birthday Jenna, your grandma LOVES you! And we will pray for you and your family.

**trayi52** · 10-08-2006, 08:30 AM

Kim, I am so sorry you are going through this horrible situation. To not let you see your grandchild is an awful thing to do to a grandmother. I am in the same situation with my grandson, Dakota. My son, James is mad at us, and will not let Dakota come and see us either. Though last week he did break down, and let Dakota come and spend the weekend with us, but it has been months since we had seen him. I miss my son, and my grandson! James is so angry at us!

I will be praying for you, Kim, that your daughter will wise up and see what her boyfriend is doing to her. I am praying that she will see that she needs you much more than she needs him. I know she and little Jenna needs prayers and I will be praying for them both, as well as for you, because this is a very difficult situation for you too.

Keeping you, Jenna, and your daughter in my prayers, always.

Love ya,
Willie

**Catty1** · 10-08-2006, 09:37 AM

Oh hon - DO call Social Services - you CAN be anonymous when you do. Call from a payphone, even.

At least you will know you have done what you can.

HUGS - please call them and let us know how it turns out.

**kimlovescats** · 10-08-2006, 10:57 AM

Thank you all for the support and especially the much needed prayers!!! This is an incredibly difficult time for me. I can't get through the day or especially bed time without crying.

Willie, I am so very sorry to hear about your precious Dakota as well. I know how much you love him!!! Why do our children use our granbabies as weapons against us?????

**rg_girlca** · 10-08-2006, 12:30 PM

Oh Kim, I am so sorry that this is going on in your life right now.
Prayers and positive thoughts on the way that your daughter will grow up and get her life straightened out.

How immature can she be to withhold you from seeing Jenna.

Prayers and ((((((HUGS)))))) for you Kim.

**Cookiebaker** · 10-08-2006, 12:34 PM

Kim, i am soo sorry for this horrible situation, it is so sad.

Maybe this will encourage you (that is my intent!!!) -- very similar situation in my family when I was growing up, and from the time I was 8 on, was never allowed to speak, talk or write to my Grandparents. The thing iseven though my parents disapprove, after I moved out, I got in touch with my Grandma, and now have a wonderful relationship with her. In fact, tomorrow, I am meeting her in Massachussetts for lunch. And I think that all those years of absence, our relationship has gotten so much stronger, and I appreciate her in ways that I never would have had something like that never happened.

I am praying for you and baby Jenna, and that your daughter will open her eyes to see that life is TOO SHORT.

**kimlovescats** · 10-08-2006, 01:36 PM

Thank you, Lorraine!

Cookiebaker: Thank you so much for sharing your story. I feel that baby Jenna is already bonded to me now, so I pray that no one will ever be able to influence her to believe otherwise! As it is now, if I am around either of her *parents*, she always prefers to be with me. I am not, and never would have intentionally tried to make her closer to me than to my daugher .... but she senses my daughter's lack of concern and feels very insecure with her. I wish more than anything that my daughter would realize what a precious gift her Jenna is, and not take her for granted.

Kim