Grandkids Are Awesome

Last night we had a little get together for the family. We have seveal birthdays in February and March and so we celebrated those special days. Our family has changed since the days when we went to grandma and grandpa's and there were usually our four kids, and maybe my sister's three. But we seldom all got together in one spot.

Last night we had 11 or our 12 grandkids in one small space. It was chaotic but joyfull! Our getting together has changed, and will change more, it the next year. Ashley is at Taylor University and doesn't get home for everything that happens. Tera and her two kids moved to Green Bay, WI last summer and now they aren't around as much. Lindsey is graduating from High School in a few weeks and she will be going off to college.

I don't like it to be that way but that is the way life goes sometimes. We have to flow with the punches as they come. For the most part, Glenda and I have been blessed in so many ways that it is hard to count. It is inevitable that those little chubby cheeked cherubs will grow up and go off to make a life for themselves someday. My prayer is that in it all, I have been faithful to God to show my grandkids that He loves them and He wants them to love him too. Ashley is studying neuroscience and may discover some cure for Autism or concussions or who knows what in her research over the years to come. Little Isaiah, now 6'4" tall, could play for the NFL or NBA in the years to come. Justin has a heart of gold and is so concerned about lost people who don't know Jesus! I suspect he will will follow in Daddy and Grandpa's footsteps. And Lindsey...? I don't know about her and the direction that she will go. But I do know that whatever she sets her heart to do, she will be great at it.

The rest of the kids have a way to go before they start making life decisions about what they will do. Jaelyn and Jared stayed with grandma and grandpa last night. Levi and Samual went home to Beloit. Those four are all very close together in age. They will be the next group going off to college and starting life on their own. But that is a ways away and I am going to enjoy them while they are still at home.

Thank you, God, for all these blessing, big and little! They are a joy to my heart and I truly love them all!