
As I blog this today, I am thinking of all of my family, the family has grown so much, the new generations are coming in now and the old is going out. As I look at these pictures, the first one is me on the left 9 years of age, my darling and beautiful Mother and my siblings, Center, Mother, left, me, right, sister Pearl, below me is brother Jack,front of him is sister Frances, right to her is brother Allen, and below him is brother Bill, brother Larry was just a baby.
Five of these are gone from this world and can't be called, e-mailed, or visited, in this picture, only my brother Bill and me are still here. Oh, how time gets away from us. It is so important to be in touch with family, make time, just a little time maybe, but take the time to contact each other often.
In the second picture are my three beautiful, darling children with their spouses, along with me. this was on my 70th birthday. My children threw me a little family 70th birthday and was going to cook me my favorite, Eggplant pamajon, well that is probably spelt wrong but sure you get my favorite. Well, I was so excited that they were going to actually cook this for me and my mouth watered all day and I couldn't wait. We were going to eat at five pm, five pm came and went so finally I ask my daughter about dinner and she said it would be ready soon,, I told her,"No one is in the kitchen and nothing is going on" She told me it would be ready, Moral of the story is: They didn't know how to cook this dish so they did the next best thing. They took me to an Italian restaurant and I got my favorite. Thank you kids. It was a memorable occasion for me.
Next picture is our family together at Mother's funeral, it was a sad time for Mother was gone but we
did what I know our Mother would have wanted us to do, and that was, to enjoy our family time. I put
her along with this picture so she could be with us. This dress she is wearing is one I gave her a long
time ago. I should have picked a different dress for her but she was a pro and didn't say anything
about if she liked it or not. Even if she didn't, she would not have said, that's the kind of lovely person
she was, our feelings was spared and she kept them inside. She was a lovely woman and I love her so much
she made us kids who we are, showing us love and honor and respectability. As far as I know, everyone
in this picture are still around except the five I mentioned.
The last picture is my nine grandchildren with me. They are older now, since the older one is 35
and the youngest is 21, they too are growing up and the next generation is coming behind them, since
in August I will have 6 great grandchildren.
Please family, lets stay in touch with each other. Life is too short, and one day one of us will be
gone and it will be too late to say I love you. Don't miss the opportunity.
I love all of you my dear family. I have cousins I have just gotten in contact with and you better
believe I am going to exercise my love by being in touch with them.
Let me say this also. Being a pest is not bad when love is involved.
Its sad to feel one of us is a pest to even one of our beautiful family members.
God gave family if we can't exercise that blessing then we don't deserve one.
The Bible tells us to love one another. We can be there for one another by pray and a sweet short phone call
or sweet e-mail or face book, hey there are so many ways out there to be in touch. Don't throw it away.
Love is an action word.
I LOVE ALL OF YOU MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY


1 comment:
Loved the blog mother. Good stuff! Praying for you during your surgery this Friday. Your the best! Garry
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