How Time Flies When You Are Having Fun
Every day, when I awake, I thank the Good Lord for the new day of possibilities. It is so wonderful to awake to the sunshine (or the quiet rain), stretch and treasure these golden days of life.
God has blessed me with such a wonderful family — I could write a book just about them (maybe I will), siblings and their spouses, good neighbors and friends. My children and grandchildren keep in touch via phone and emails. What fun to talk with Yvonne when she spent a few days in Montreal on business. A beautiful start to the day to have Wes call and say he misses me; and later to have a long, beautiful talk with Deb and Wes reminding me of their love and goodness to me. Phone call visits with Chris and Leanne bring me up to date on what’s happening in Pennsylvania and also reminds me of our bond of love. How I appreciate the long newsy emails from Beth who is so busy with a rambunctious fifteen month-old granddaughter ! Beth and I share a love of reading (among a lot of other things) and she is often most helpful in editing my columns. It is always fun to be with Matt and Tina – most often when he helps me around the house, he will stay and chat and have a beer or two with me. I treasure the trips to Middlefield with Tina as we always have a ball! All of them are surrounded by an aura of love and add so very much to my life! I could fill another whole book with stories of my grandchildren who lovingly keep in touch with me, make it possible for me to visit and to visit me. All of my children and grandchildren are precious stones in an invisible necklace that I wear and the great grandchildren are like little diamonds among them. I treasure the moments when I can be with them — perhaps playing with Play Dough or reading to them!
I am blessed to have five sisters and two brothers-in-law all living locally. We treasure the times when we can meet for lunch often to celebrate one of our birthdays. These are always times of laughter and love. Most recently, on Friday, June 18th Laurie, Mary, Judy, Cheryl, Linda, brother-in-law, Ron, and I met to celebrate Laurie’s birthday which was earlier in June. We are truly blessed. Judy has invited us to her campsite to celebrate Mary’s birthday which is July 24.
Often in my thoughts and prayers are a couple of cousins, Aud Roberts who is visiting her daughter Pam and son-in-law, Dave in Alaska and Audrey Alten who is actually my mother’s cousin but a five months younger than I am! I keep in touch with Aud in Alaska with phone calls and cards; I keep in touch with Audrey in Ohio mostly via email. I have so many happy memories of time spend with Aud and of the many letters, phone calls and few visits with Audrey. I treasure the times when my much younger cousin, Nancy, and I get together. She has such a great sense of humor! About three of years ago when I wanted to take a month long vacation from Kumon, I asked her to fill in for me and she did. She has stayed on ever since and it is fun to see her at work.
Life is filled with so many stories! How blest am I to have lived to see so many changes in our world! I often reminisce in my columns about how difference things were as I grew up! I do treasure that childhood and also the part I played in the childhoods of my children, (guess this is my third childhood instead of what this time of life is often referred to as – a second childhood).
Enough rambling (or is it called stream of consciousness?) and get on with my day. Think it is the first day of summer. Foliage is so lush and green; flowers are so beautiful! God is in His heaven and all is right with the world!