When MD is over and we have the opportunity to sit back and think over the years of raising children and now seeing them as adults themselves raising children, it is such a delight to watch them do some of the things we tried to instill in them! When I reread all the cards last night after the kids were gone and the kids that live OOT had called, it just made me realize that dispite the fact that mistakes were made, decisions were sometimes not the best, hard days were sometimes not dealt with in the best of ways, by Gods grace, our kids knew they were loved! They have grown up with the kindest hearts which forgive our mistakes, they are seeing that as they raise their children, they are learning how to respond to each new season of their children’s lives, just like we did. And continue to do. That as we taught them how to be independent of us, we then then had to accept their independence, they are now doing the same! It is a joy to now not only be their parent, but a friend as well! I remember that my dream job was to be a mom! That’s truly all I wanted to be! And here at 72, as I look back. That dream job has been so rewarding and such a blessing! We have a blended family of 5! And as that blending continues to just get better and better, Randy and I both know that it is truly a gift from the Lord that we can say, “behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man whose quiver is full of them: they shall not be ashamed. Psa 127:3-5
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