Gina Neelysure was excited to hear she’d be welcoming her first grandchild. But the former Food Network cook was slightly less thrilled when she learned her daughter Spenser Lewis-Neely is expecting a boy.
“Well…..the word is God knows what’s best and I’m going to rest in that,” she captioned her post, which featured a reaction gif of a woman looking frustrated, plus a slide reading “And Just Like That ……… It’s A Boy!!!”
“I’m shook, of course, but I’m going to be alright!” she teased. “Love and Light✨✨✨.”
“Would I be upset if it’s a boy? No, obviously not. But I’m a girl mom!” Neely, who is also mom to 27-year-old daughter Shelbi, added. “I raised two girls, so I know what I’m doing. And I came from a family of women; we didn’t have a lot of men in our house, it was four girls and just one brother. So I’m putting it out there to God it’s going to be a little girl.”
God may not have granted Neely the granddaughter she wanted, but news of Spenser’s pregnancy is a blessing enough.
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Spenser is welcoming her first child with partner Tayloe Taylor, whom Neely calls “very loving and very hands on.”
“They all kept it a secret from me,” Neely recalls. “Everybody was in on it. Spenser told everyone and made them keep it from me because they wanted to record my reaction. I came home and went to get undressed, and they said, ‘Mom, what are you doing? Put your clothes back on you have one more gift to open!’ And then next thing I knew, Shelbi was filming me.”
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“It was just the best surprise,” Neely continued. “I would have shared it earlier but Spenser wanted to wait until she was past the first trimester. So she decided Valentine’s Day would be best — it’s Love Day after all, and we are feeling the love!”
In fact, this level of love is something Neely told PEOPLE she thought she would never feel again. “I just told Spenser on Sunday too, ‘You have breathed another love in me.’ Because I didn’t know I could love again like this,” Neely said. “I can’t wait for the love to emerge. She has put a seed in me, and am just bursting with love.”
source: people.com
