03/05/2025
“The Visit”
My son & his family recently visited us. During that time I was able to spend quality moments with his daughters, my grand-daughters. Grandchildren take up different heart space than your own children. You can leave most of the parenting to the parents. Since you’ve managed the challenges of raising your own, of marriage, and of life, for a while now…you know more, you know better…or should. You also reflect on your life and the impact your own grandparents made on you.
While alone with them, I took about 5 minutes to catch a few shots. I wasn’t going for perfect, or all smiles, I just wanted them…and I wanted them before they rolled over each other or off the bed. ☺️ This image is one I love. I see my granddaughters along with pieces of myself, past, future and present. I see teenagers growing up into women. I see their personalities forming and a multitude of journeys they can take in the years to come.
And I am so excited. I also see the importance of me in their life, the importance of my relationship with my husband. My decisions, my choices no longer effect just me, my husband or our children. Here, in black and white, it effects the shaping of these two little darling people. What type of woman will they come to know their grandmother to be? What type of love will they remember their grandparents having? Will my being make them better?
I don’t know the answers, but I do know I will try my best to be the best version of myself, for myself, for their parents, and for them.