Welcome to the Gathering Place, I am so glad you stopped by !
Friends have asked me so many time s to start Blogging again so..... Today is the day! So much is going on in my life right now it is crazy to think where I have been and all I have done in the last 9 years wow. Just a quick overview to catch everyone up.
Moved back to Washington State to care for my Father and re kindle my relationships over there.
My Father passed in April of 2010 :*(
We moved to Michigan where we had a season of suffering, met my Beautiful friend (we call her our adopted Daughter) Lauren and her beautiful Daughters.
Moved back to Ontario in 2013 whew.... Finally we are back.
We have had 2 beautiful Grandsons Gage and Max and now we have two more on the way. This is a year of Celebration.
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The house seems all to Quiet these days. When I stopped working for 7 years to care for my Dad it was a different kind of life, going from caring for our children to caring for my father. Someone asked me how do you change gears, you just dig deep and find the strength and the Grace to do what they did for you when you were small.
I know God gave me that opportunity for reasons I didn't fully understand at the time. Now that I have had time without my Dad I know it was a season in my life where I needed to heal. I needed to be the Daughter I never had the chance to be with my Dad and God knew I needed time with him. I am so glad I did it and when he passed he never left my heart.
I am in my 50's now back in Ontario where I am close to my beautiful Children (we are a combined family I have two Sons of my own and a Step Daughter and Stepson that are no less my very own) as they now grow their family. Wow when I look at them I see so much of our past now resurfacing in them. I ask.
Will they be ok, did we give them the right advise the correct tools to be victorious ?
What kind of Parents will they be, Will they have the patience to run the distance?
What challenges will they face how will they handle them?
Will they be good grown ups, giving, caring, compassionate?
Will they learn to participate in their community?
Will they slow down to enjoy every single minute?
Will they still need us?
Those are the questions right? You do the best you can and then, you let them fly. So far so Good, no I don't pat myself on the back we have amazing Children and they have shown us and the world that they had a strength and drive and intellect inside of them to succeed to be successful beyond their years. That had nothing to do with me. I can only sit on the side lines and cheer them on. And when they fall, I will show them how to get up and start again.
So today is the Day, the day to begin the celebration, the growth of our family is happening right as we speak. I have two Grand babies coming One due in only a few days, we do not know what it will be girl or boy doesn't make any difference to this Grandmother my love is not partial. And we have a Grandson coming in December. Could you imagine if both are boys we will be the Grandparents of 4 Grandsons wow that is incredible.
I am blessed, so much so that I don't remember the bad times in my past, I only look towards the future and what it will have in store for us. Happily married for 20 years and friends I wouldn't trade for Gold.
Thank you for your encouragement to get my words back down on paper. Life is a journey that we all have to take, lets not be in such a hurry that we miss the precious moments along the way. Until next time
