Monday... missing my grandchildren

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It's hard living so far from my grandchildren. But thankfully, we do make it out to Texas several times a year. I can't wait until the next trip!

Here are my adorable grandchildren...

Austin and Megan

SO PRECIOUS !!!

July...

We spent some joyful times visiting with our grandchildren during June and July.
Here are a few of our memories...

Could there be anything sweeter?

Austin David (8 mo)

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Megan Ashley (8 mo)

Austin gets a lot of attention!



Megan loves people and is always expressing herself!

Austin loves everything in life, and tries to experience it all!

What a sweetheart!

Megan is a precious doll!

What a joy!

The grandbabies are both quite the entertainers, and these two grandparents just cannot seem to get enough of either of them!! They are loved so very very much!


We can barely wait until our third grandchild arrives in December!

Thankful Thursday

I'm thankful every day of my life. I can't claim that I have ALWAYS been. But what I can say is that NOW, and for the past few years(possibly up to ten or so), that I AM thankful. A hard-to-learn lesson, but one worth considering, is that thankful people are those aware of what has been given to them. None of us "deserve" anything - but the Lord God has blessed all of us in some ways. I want to be responsible - reminding myself each week that I AM thankful, and for which things I am newly (or supremely) thankful.

So THIS WEEK, I am especially thankful for...

1) my Lord's love and care for me
2) an awareness of my surroundings, made possible by my Lord
3) an awareness of the depth of my inabilities
4) an awareness that there are depths of his unfathomable greatness that I shall NEVER know this side of heaven
5) the rain and the sunshine, alternately blessing
6) my copy of God's Word, the Bible
7) friendships that He has granted along the journey of life, blessing me as flowers do (Some are daylilies and last for a short season - boosting an otherwise gloomy "day". And some are glorious perennials who are with me year after year - growing, blooming and mingling their scents with mine)
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...and, for the two tiny, precious treasures named Austin and Megan
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...and for THEIR great-grandparents (my parents) whose 60th wedding anniversary would have been today. Thank you, God, that I know they await us in heaven!




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