Today is gray, chilly and drizzly......Started out this morning having breakfast with several of my siblings, my husband and my mom and dad. It is a tradition when the parents are in town and leaving the next morning that we have breakfast together at Grandma's House of Pancakes. Usually we have a long table filled with kids and adults alike. We tend to take over the back area of the restaurant with our laughing, rowdiness and the decibels of talking go higher and higher as we all talk above, in between and among each other. This morning was very different - there was only 7 of us and much more subdued than normal. I love my family. We are passionate, quite opinionated but full of love and fun.
From there, Steve and I took off for Middlebury to spend time with his mom. While he did hers, his sister's and niece's taxes - I went through some old VHS tapes to see what was on them. We are sending a box of these tapes to get transferred onto thumb drives or DVDs. The one tape that had anything worth keeping was one where it looked as if we were celebrating my oldest daughter's 2 year birthday and my sister in law's birthday. They are both in the month of June. And then my second daughter was I'm guessing about 10 months old. I was not prepared to watch my late father in law on that video. It kinda took my breath away as I watched him play with Hannah and and hold Krista and interact with them. He was such a kind man and he loved his granddaughters so very much. Then I watched a very much younger version of Steve interacting with Hannah and my heart just melted. Steve was and is an amazing father. I love being a mom and I loved my children at all their stages in life but those were precious years. When that project was finished, I went out to a recliner and took a long nap. Woke up just in time for the 3 of us to go out for lunch.
We returned home about 3.30 and I proceeded to catch up on a couple of my favorite tv shows - ended up taking another nap.
Now, I'm listening to music on our camping playlist. Looking out the window, I can't wait until we can pull out that camper and get to camping. Which both of us love to do. We are learning to love being alone together and not doing much. We are learning to love this stage of our lives. We wish our kids would be physically close to us so that we could see them more often. Tomorrow, we are meeting with them over Skype........For now, Creedence Clearwater Revival takes me away as we go "Rollin' on the River". Also excitedly waiting for our second grandchild to enter this world. Seems it will happen any day now.......
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