My trip home

My trip to back home was great!

Jenna is now 11 weeks old.

I will go back for another trip in July and I can't wait.

This is Jenna and I.

I sure miss holding her.

Jenna is never far away from me in my thoughts. When we part I hold her in my memory.

Yes, there is sadness in the word good-bye but I am happy because I know that I will soon return.

When I picture her face. I smile.

This my mom's rose bush.

She got a "start" from my grandmother's rose bush about a year ago. My grandmother passed away in 1978 but my mom went to see her old house and asked the people who were living there if we could take a "start" from the rose bush and they of course let us.

The rose bush is absolutely gorgeous!

Don't ya think?

Deb

May is finally here...

I know… It’s been here almost two weeks… but I am just now getting around for this post.

It's incredible how much time flies when we get old. I remember how I waited for summer time as a kid and it seemed to take forever. I loved the end of the school year.. May…maybe time passed by so slowly because May is my birthday month. I couldn’t wait to be another year older! May to me was also the beginning of summer.

How times change!

I haven't been looking forward to this birthday at all. When my oldest son turned 30 eight months ago, I suddenly realized....wow....if he’s 30....that must make me.....well.....there's no other way to put it....I'm old!

I will now be a ½ a century old! WoW!

I know everyone says… “Where does the time go… “ BUT REALLY…

I can’t believe I am really 50! It really does seem like I was just in high school. Or just married… or just having my first child.

Oh well…

I’m a GRANDMA! YEA!

I LOVE being Nanna… can you tell? This whole webpage is dedicated to her… Jenna Joy and future grandbabies.

Somehow I will get through this milestone! Gravity isn’t helping much… but my family is.

I am still looking forward to summer and looking forward to times with Jenna Joy and my family in Oklahoma.

Love, Deb

The importance of photographs

A while back I posted about my Mother’s Day project. I am still in the process of making a “video” of photos and old home movies of my mom growing up, her children growing up and her grandchildren … and now her great-grand child, Jenna Joy.

As I sit here tonight looking at old photos of family times, children growing up and the older family members getting even older… I ask myself if these photos have truly served their purpose … They are here to show us glimpses of the past and to preserve the past. They connect us, across time, across the miles of separation between family members and across lifetimes.

As I flip slowly from one image to the next, I feel the tears welling up in my eyes because I miss those who I can no longer reach out and hug. I remembered last January while I got to spend a couple of days with my mom and her telling me the stories within the photographs that I treasure. It is indeed a precious gift. I am seeing places and times that I never could have without these pieces of paper in my hands. And even if I could have seen them, even if I could have followed the paths they took, I would not be able to see through their eyes like I can when I soak in this story book of their lives.

Not only can I travel back in time, but I think about the future as well. I wonder if I will one day my own memories will one day be viewed with this same joy by my own grandchildren. I have remembered and relived moments gone by. I catch glimpses of laughter and memories made with friends & family.

These photographs do indeed bring me joy and I hope my children will enjoy them and their children.

Deb

Meeting Jenna for the first time

I think I am back where I can keep my page updated... and it's about time!

Work had me tired, exhausted and hating the computer. The last thing that I wanted to do at night, after a LOOOONG day at work during the most busy time of the year for a CPA firm was to come home and get on the computer.

Yea! Tax season is behind me now and I have my life back!

This is US. She is my first grandbaby. My little Jenna Joy. The most beautiful baby girl I know. I spent 3 and 1/2 days with her and those were SOME of the best days of my life.

I miss her dearly. She truly is a JOY to behold.

Sometimes life just isn't fair.

Stay with me here on this webpage... there will be LOTS more pictures and Nanna stories to come.

Deb

Jenna Joy

She's HERE!!! I know... I haven't posted in quite awhile! Work is killing me. April 15th can't get here fast enough.

I was sick so I DID NOT get to go see my precious baby girl last weekend but I am better now and will be making a trip to Oklahoma on April 16th and I can't wait.

Thanks to everyone for leaving comments and being so patient. I will be posting more pictures SOON!

Deb

Baby Girl will be here by THURSDAY, March 20th

Different kinds of....

Love

Your whole life, all you hear about is romantic love. It’s the love that fairy tales are made of. When I was young I remember watching Cinderella starring Leslie Ann Warren. My friends and I thought this movie was the greatest movie ever made. Well... something like that... It was 1965 and I was only 7 years old but that watching that movie I learned romantic “love”! And so I believed from then on that someday my prince would come and sweep me off my feet and I would live happily ever after.

But there’s another kind of love that’s every bit as poetic and magical. It’s the love between a parent and a child.

The first time you hold your tiny infant in your arms you know for sure that God is real and he loves you because he just blessed you with a miracle. When you give birth to your “perfect” child you truly feel like your life is complete. Then as your child grows older you suddenly realize what unconditional love really is.

I am now about to experience another kind of LOVE and my life will become even more complete.

TWO WEEKS AND COUNTING!

In about two weeks… I will have a grand child!

Something I have been waiting for for quite awhile now. My oldest child will be a father! How amazing is that?

I won’t get to hold my grand baby until March 28th. I was going for Easter weekend but flights are too expensive so I will go the following week. I am a little disappointed but it will be okay.

Don't worry...NaNa will get to hold her SOON!

Deb