Mother's day 2009

My girls made great shirts again from Mother's day. They never cease to amaze!

blogging and family

I keep this up because of several reasons. 1)It is like a journal of my life and my family's life. 2)It helps me work through my grief of missing my sister. 3) It keeps me in touch with extended family both my side and doug's. 4) From some emails I get, it is actually helping others with grief issues.

Some times I feel I leave my children out of too many post, or maybe that I don't focus on JUST my children makes me feel guilty. One thing I am very proud of, I have 3 grown daughters, the 4th will be 18 in November. They are each good people in their own way. But the thing I am talking about, THEY LOVE FAMILY. Sure we can get on each others nerves. But you let one of us, a niece, an in-law, cousin, whatever it may be, the we rally and we are THERE in whatever way we need to be. We don't HAVE to see each other every day, we usually communicate some way everyday. If I tell 2 of them something then I know the other 2 will know it before I can turn around. If someone is left out of the loop, then they are upset. Brittany (my niece) is almost as bad about being in the loop. She's learning what support really is.

I say all this because sometimes my post are just about me, sometimes just about one kid, sometimes about nieces and nephews. For me, its all family.