Bonjour, madame et monsieur.

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Moi, je suis le petit-fils de mes grands-parents, Tess et Roland.


Bienvenue, Oscar!


Congratulations, Roland and Tess!

We wish you both on having your first "apo" with Melissa and Antoine. We can identify the feelings you have for holding your own "apo," be it the first or even the last. The feeling of love for them is surreal. To see the mother in good health after going through the ordeal of delivery becomes more self-gratifying. We thank Our Lord for the joy of parenting while we see the offshot of the next generation unfold before our eyes. We wish you the best and God bless.

Olive (and Rudy)


The following is an excerpt message of a proud grandmother to her friends:
We welcomed our new grandson on his birthday last August 10th at George Washington University Hospital in DC. What a lovely little creature of God to behold! He is so adorable, and so good, so cute, who have shared the pain of his mom on his delivery, Meliss had to push hard and with the help of forceps the little tiny one came out successfully but with such a serene lovely face. I cried when I was holding him in my arms, he is so tiny, 6 3/4 lbs and already experienced pain. How true that Heaven is in our hand when we hold a new born babe.
I can't but think of our Lord who became so small like one of us so He could be loved. He also shared in our suffering from his birth till his death on the cross. But in the book I read that JOY is SORROW unmasked as I witnessed in the JOY after a painful delivery of my daughter. I had experienced the same pain with Meliss, an incision would not work as what happened with Meliss, and so I had the C-S surgery. All the pain are forgotten once you behold the face of your baby. I think this is why this is compared with our pain on our last day, that when it is over, we behold the Face of God, how beautiful it is to think of our birth to Heaven this way.

(The above email was sent by Tess Macasieb to her friends on the birth of her first grandson)