This is a picture of our family that our daughter Tiffany drew when she was a little girl.
Maybe it is just that it is a gray January day, but I have been thinking today of how fast
my family grew up and left our home... to make homes of their own.
As I was raising these 8 children, people would say to me, they are going to be all grown
up and gone before you can blink! That was pretty hard for me to believe back then, but
they were telling me a truth. Some days, like today, I wish they were little again.
Maybe it is just that it is a gray January day, but I have been thinking today of how fast
my family grew up and left our home... to make homes of their own.
As I was raising these 8 children, people would say to me, they are going to be all grown
up and gone before you can blink! That was pretty hard for me to believe back then, but
they were telling me a truth. Some days, like today, I wish they were little again.
Three little monkeys...MaKayla, Megan and Cloe.
Baking cookies with Natalie and Stetson.
Those darling babies turn into brides so fast! (Tiffany)
Even the dogs, they get old too fast and pass out of our
lives as quickly as they came in it seems. Buck, looking
over where we now live.
over where we now live.
My sister Marty...my crazy wild sis that I love.
(I just threw this one in)
(I just threw this one in)
Thanksgiving day, here with my daughter Lindsey.
A beautiful snowy day and our daughter Tiffany as a teen,
she is now a mama to 3 little ones of her own.
she is now a mama to 3 little ones of her own.
We do so love being grandparents though...
Maybe that is where the healing of the heart
begins, as your own children leave home.
Maybe that is where the healing of the heart
begins, as your own children leave home.
Me and our daughter Lisa with her two little girls
who are now getting to be teenagers.
who are now getting to be teenagers.
The fun times of camping, here with me & Tiffany and Lisa's two little girls.
Brickelle and Natalie...and they still love cats too!
~Our Lindsey playing with Buck~
Lindsey, so into every sport and so good at them too.
Our little Shanedel-Ronnie, now 16!
The soft baby hair on Caleb...I miss that.
Our daughter Lisa on our horse Apache, I miss him,
he was the best horse, he loved to lick your hand!
he was the best horse, he loved to lick your hand!
Darin and Laura with their first baby, sitting on our front porch.
Little Brickelle in all her Shirley Temple cuteness!
Some of the little grands helping with dinner.
Even they are getting big now!
Even they are getting big now!
A Christmas vacation to New York with our two youngest, so fun!
Ron and Julie and a day of riding our horses in the mountains.
All 8 of our children and Ron's mother too.
I miss the days of proms...Our Lindsey is in the red dress.
Lindsey's basketball team..."State Champions."
Grandma Julie with little Natalie and Brickelle
who are getting so grown up now too.
who are getting so grown up now too.
Our daughters...Tiffany putting makeup in
Lindsey for the big prom date.
Lindsey for the big prom date.
~Lindsey and Tiffany~
Little Shanedel-Ronnie and grandma's pumpkins.
Tiffany and her prince charming...this is when life
really changes, as they go off and get married.
really changes, as they go off and get married.
Lindsey and Tiffany as little girls.
They each have little girls now that look just like them.
Some days it does feel a little sad to see that they have all
grown up and are off living their own lives. I am proud of
them though, for the good lives they are living and how they
are loving their children.
Life feels like it has almost come full circle...
I know there are many more adventures to come but today,
I am thinking of the special places my heart has been to,
places and times that will never leave me!
Some days, like these quiet grey days of January, I miss them
and wish they were all little again!
They each have little girls now that look just like them.
Some days it does feel a little sad to see that they have all
grown up and are off living their own lives. I am proud of
them though, for the good lives they are living and how they
are loving their children.
Life feels like it has almost come full circle...
I know there are many more adventures to come but today,
I am thinking of the special places my heart has been to,
places and times that will never leave me!
Some days, like these quiet grey days of January, I miss them
and wish they were all little again!