So my last post was in 2011 and it is now 2013.. it is, in fact April of 2013. Easter was last Sunday. It was an amazing day.... Peaceful and relaxed.. with most of our extended family here with us. Alan's parents were still in Mexico so it was the Billingsley siblings and their families here to celebrate the greatest gift God has ever given.
It's kind of funny how when you start out raising your family and they are all little kids you want only the best for them. You try so hard to provide all the right things for them to grow up to be "good people", and then one day they are grown and they do not resemble anything you THOUGHT they were going to be like. God has His plans... they don't always look like our plans. It's true.
As I sat on the porch last weekend with my family I was looking out at the amazing way in which we(all the brothers and sisters in law) have come to the same places in life. I am a grandmother now, I have two beautiful little girls Hazel and Millihannah. Cheryl is also a grandmother, her grandson Michael is a beautiful, sweet little boy. Terry and Byron are not grand parents yet. Their kids are all on their own doing well. Becky and Rick have a teen and a forth grader.Not quite ready for the same place we are in yet.
At this point Cheryl and Pat have nursed both of his parents through lingering end of life illnesses buried both. I have had to put my mother into safe care at a dementia /Alzheimer's care facility.She seems pretty happy and not sad or angry. Terry is trying to convince her mother that she needs to move to a place she can get around by herself. These are challenges that life throws at us as our "right of passage" into one of our late stages of adulthood. These things are not so easy. However, God is good and we are supported no matter the circumstance.
Maybe with so much life happening I forget or cannot bring myself ,to write about it. I am not sure. But I am sure, that when I do write about what is going on, I feel like I can survive even the toughest of the challenges I face. It's like a prayer...and I know that God is taking care of it all.
It's kind of funny how when you start out raising your family and they are all little kids you want only the best for them. You try so hard to provide all the right things for them to grow up to be "good people", and then one day they are grown and they do not resemble anything you THOUGHT they were going to be like. God has His plans... they don't always look like our plans. It's true.
As I sat on the porch last weekend with my family I was looking out at the amazing way in which we(all the brothers and sisters in law) have come to the same places in life. I am a grandmother now, I have two beautiful little girls Hazel and Millihannah. Cheryl is also a grandmother, her grandson Michael is a beautiful, sweet little boy. Terry and Byron are not grand parents yet. Their kids are all on their own doing well. Becky and Rick have a teen and a forth grader.Not quite ready for the same place we are in yet.
At this point Cheryl and Pat have nursed both of his parents through lingering end of life illnesses buried both. I have had to put my mother into safe care at a dementia /Alzheimer's care facility.She seems pretty happy and not sad or angry. Terry is trying to convince her mother that she needs to move to a place she can get around by herself. These are challenges that life throws at us as our "right of passage" into one of our late stages of adulthood. These things are not so easy. However, God is good and we are supported no matter the circumstance.
Maybe with so much life happening I forget or cannot bring myself ,to write about it. I am not sure. But I am sure, that when I do write about what is going on, I feel like I can survive even the toughest of the challenges I face. It's like a prayer...and I know that God is taking care of it all.
