My gorgeous family! Son Aaron with wife Stephanie, oldest grandson Lucas holding youngest grandson Altas, daughter Rachel with grandsons Pierce and Silas, daughter Jenny with husband Andrew. (Lucas is Rachel’s son, Atlas is Aaron and Stephanie’s baby, Pierce and Silas are Jen and Andrew’s boys)
Well, I mean, just look at them!
(If I could use emojis in this post there would be a string of every colored heart under the rainbow and all kinds of smiley faces!)
As I wrote yesterday when I said I got to FaceTime with them all all of the siblings and their families get together each 4th of July week at one another’s houses. Currently they are all at Aaron and Stephanie’s house in Atlanta. And my heart is right there with them.
I write a lot about the struggles I have had in my life, but more than anything I want to tell you how deeply blessed I know that I am. Having my children was the best and happiest and brightest and most wonderful thing in my life. And we are especially blessed to love their partners in life so much too, and oh, the grandbabies! Four grandsons, how could there possibly be anything better? I am over the moon in love with all of them.
I think, more than anything, I want to make sense of my life for them, I want to heal myself and leave a legacy for them that is about their mother triumphing over adversity and making something of her life, I want mine to be a story that is about being able to prevail over whatever life hands us, I want them to see and to know that it is never too late to be what we might have been. I want the gift that I give them to be that of a mother at peace, knowing how blessed she is, and appreciating the life she has had because despite it all they were the stars in the firmament of her life and no matter how dark the sky the fact that they were there, shining so brightly, was what always brought her through. This is true and I want them to always be able to hold that knowledge in their hearts.
Today I don’t need to say a lot here, I just wanted to share my sweetest loves with all of you, and to let you know that now and always I am an incredibly blessed woman, and I know that, and that shall ever be so.
My family, my sweetest loves. I am so happy and blissy in this moment I can barely breathe. Oh me…
The Experiment ~A 365 Day Search For Truth, Beauty &
Happiness: Day 1 ~ Introduction To The Project
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda
what a warm fuzzy. YES YOU ARE BLESSED. and because of you (and kevin of course) THESE BEINGS live in the world, and the generations will continue. How wonderful to take time to focus on what it has been for you, being a mother, and raising these resilient children, and standing by their side all through their lives, and now through their children’s lives. Something to CELEBRATE, and why not in your blog? because we’re all here going through the highs and lows, the traumas and delights with you.
xoxo
ka
Thank you so much darling Ka, warm and fuzzy indeed. And yes, life holds it all doesn’t it, so much to deal with, to process, to live our way through. But today I am feeling blissy and blessed and allowing these feelings to fill the day. The other things are floated on the backs of these moments just now but my heart holds it all.
M. xoxox
Dear Maitri, What a lovely family you have <3 No wonder you are so proud of them and your heart is with them in Atlanta. I hope you have a lot of Face Time with them and also some face to face time too.
Love, Jean
Thank you dear Jean, I had my one FaceTime with them while they are together. They’ve been too busy for more! And this is their last day together. Jenny and Rachel will both be traveling home tomorrow. But Jen and her family are coming here to Wilmington for a visit next month and Aaron and Stephanie and the baby are coming in September so I have those visits to look forward to! 😀 But “being with them” via FaceTime this week was a real treat. Too seldom that we are all together in one place.
I hope you are having a lovely day dearheart. It is a peaceful quiet day here at Dragonfly Cottage…
Hugs,
Maitri
What a beautiful family, and what a lovely photo! You must be so happy and proud, and rightly so. I love the paragraph where you describe the way you want to make sense of your life for them. You’re doing all of that, and much more. xxx
Thank you so much dear Jenny and I am trying, I really am, one day, one moment, at a time. Thank you for being here on this journey with me. It helps more than you could possibly know…
Sending you a gentle hug…
Maitri
Thank you Maitri for reminding me of my blessings.
Once upon a time this gal would wake up and give thanksgiving or the many blessings in her life.
I choose to be that woman again .. no matter how much pain I wake up in I will once again hear my Daddy’s voice “Sis you wake up in pain you know God has blessed ya with another day!”
I AM BLESSED!
Oh Julia honey you are so welcome, and you know what? We need to be here to remind each other. We really do. And what a wise man your Daddy was.
AND WE ARE BOTH BLESSED, WE ARE ALL BLESSED, WE REALLY ARE. We just need to look for the blessings and celebrate them. During hard times the blessings may be what Virginia Woolf called, in another context, “the diamonds in the dustheap.” During hard times and dark days the blessings may feel hard to find but they are there, are they not? Let’s just remind each other to turn over the dust in the heap. There are diamonds there…
Yes Daddy was a wise man although I didn’t think so when i was much younger lol but after having Jenny Sue he got smarter all the time lol
Diamonds in the dust heap yes’um there are…