Family

We celebrated my youngest getting married last Friday.  It was a beautiful wedding and we had lots of fun with the whole family.  

This year has been a great year.  The birth of our first grandbaby and this wedding.  Our family has needed this joyous year.  

 I am so thankful that what's left of my parents (steps and my mom) can all come together, get along and even enjoy each other's company. 

I love that with both of my girls that the families they married into are good loving families and that we all enjoy visiting. 

Family is so very important in today's world.  When we have our differences forgiving and forgetting is the best solution because nothing should come between us.  Love of family comes first.   We are very blessed. 

Mothers Day

As I'm driving home today from work I was reflecting on being a Mom.  I thought back to when my girls were small and all the responsibilities as a young mom I had, it was not always easy but so worth it. 
I'd do it all again in a heartbeat to be able to come to today and see how awesome they are and how they continue to bloom in to wonderful young women.  My girls are the biggest blessings and most rewarding thing I've every been apart of, to me Mothers Day is a time to celebrate them and how blessed I am. 
The three of us have enjoyed so much together from the simple times of hanging out and watching movies, going shopping, attending church, doing the daily things as they grew up, to the times we have together now as they have become adults.  So many good memories that I love to recall.   As we continue to make memories with grandbabies and future weddings I'm so looking forward to enjoying this time in life when I can stand back and watch them mature into wonderful people with so much to give back to the world. 
Each one is different in their own way but a reflection of myself in so many ways.  I am so proud of the strong and confident young women they have become.  They are so kind, compassionate and wise.  How I was so blessed with such beautiful young women I can call my daughters is beyond me, I did nothing to deserve it.  Oh yes I was the crazy mom who didn't let them play in the front yard until they were 20...lol...I was a bit over protective...but I think I knew what treasures they were. 
So on this Mothers Day I want both of you to know I am very proud of you.  You are my Sunshine when sky's are grey!!!

The Past and the Future.....

I have silently (guess not now) vowed to blog more, I have so much on my mind and I think often of blogging it.  Over the last 3 years I've had a lot of things heavy on my heart I have not shared.  At the time it was probably best.  Grief and all its stages can be brutal at times.  But here I am still standing and 2015 has so much to look forward to.

Last year when 2014 came along I said all I wanted was a "normal" year, no major events or sad ones please.  I can say that was what I got for the most part but, I also got a few really happy events.  Kaela became engaged to a great young man who we all love and look forward to adding to the family although he already is, we will just make it official sometime in 2015.  Melissa and Patrick announced the coming of a grandchild and what a wonderful end of 2014 watching her bloom in to a beautiful mother to be.

So this year I will become a Grandma or I'm thinking "Gram".  Its kinda odd its seems, the years have gone by so quickly.  Could I really be this old?  I don't care!!!  I want to be the kinda of Grandma that my Grandma Emma and Grandmother Webb were, they were loving, fun and just easy to be around. They did a lot of things that were natural to them but really left their grandchildren with great memories.  Most of all they loved us abundantly.

Later this year we will have a wedding and I will have a family of 7!!!  I hope to do family pictures in the summer with all of them!!!

So as I reflect on 2014 and look toward 2015 my heart is heavy for the ones we will miss, I'm not sure we will ever stop missing them but, when I think of them now I know how happy they would be to know a great-grand baby is coming this year and that a grandchild will marry and find her happiness.  Lots of fun times and good memories ahead.