Well, that trip down memory lane just became clearer!
My son announced his engagement to his long time girlfriend. They plan to marry in June 2010! I wasn't surprised. I have been expecting it.
While I'm happy for him to be happy, I also feel a great sense of peace over it. I KNOW they will face challenges and times of trial that will grow them. But I feel God's presence here as well, keeping His loving time over all of us during this time.
I just hope that Mema will be there to enjoy this wedding of her first great-grandson from her first grandson. That's what she told me on the day Gregory was born. Oh, there never was a grandma so proud. (I know, I know, but she was nearly busting buttons over his handsome face and both grandma and great grandma were so amazed at his perfectly round head and the fact that he could hold his own head up even being a month premature--your house burning in a fire tends to put ya into early labor, ya know?)
The other day I was scrubbing Mema's kitchen carpet for her. On my hands and knees and I realized something.
I am SO blessed with the family I married into. Really blessed.
I don't have a Monster-in-law. I have a loving, sweet, and helpful (even though sometimes we don't see eye to eye, I do know she loves me and we get along great) mother-in-law that I'm finally comfortable calling Mom. Now the reticence was not hers. She claimed me as a daughter a long time ago. I was slow to catch on.
My father-in-law is-to steal a phrase from a friend of mine- my father-in-love. Wonderful man. I cannot begin to explain how much I respect him. He stepped up after my father's death (he lost his mother the month prior) and lent the loving guiding hand that I still needed. He still does. Sometimes I just talk and he just listens. And that works for us. On rare occasions, he will even be the one doing the talking. :D
My precious niece and nephew, how they enrich my life!
I thank God for them most humbly and do so on a daily basis.
And today, I just wanted to focus on some of my multitude of blessings. :D
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I hear talk from friends, even some family, on their relationships with their in-laws and I feel so blessed. I get along great with my in-laws and enjoy visiting them (they don't live near us anymore). We are blessed to have such wonderful families!
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