walking on Sunshine

It is Friday!!!
How I love this day.
My favorite day of the week!!
And while most people would think Saturday would be the favorite day, I love Friday’s because when I get up on Friday mornings I think to myself….
“Ahh…..two days to sleep later than 5 am, the next two mornings”

And with it being Friday, I have two days ahead of me that I don’t have to work.
On Saturday morning, there is only one day left after that day!

I know it sounds strange but it makes perfect sense to me.

I feel very blessed and I feel like I am walking on Sunshine just because of all the gifts my dear Heavenly Father has blessed me with.

Thank you Lord

My girls

I so love being Nana to these girls
It is so wonderful and so incredible.
I love being a mother but being Nana to these girls is like a intense bright light that God shines down on me because He has granted me with the wonder of these three beautiful little girls.
Thank you Lord.

Me and my little gifts from God

Full time not part time Nana

I always consider myself a full time Nana.
I adore my grand daughters and would lay down my life for any one of them.
However this week I am going to really be FULL TIME Nana because my son and his wife are going to Chicago this week for their anniversary (tomorrow) so I will have their daughters until Thursday evening.
I have had them both for 48 hours before but never this long without a break.
I love them dearly but I won’t lie, 48 hours is usually long enough and I am ready for a break.
My exceptionally wonderful Keira is hitting her terrible twos a bit late, she just turned three and is really starting to be defiant and sassy.

I have never spanked her but I have threatened to.

My beautiful Kayla is so sweet and generally a happy baby but she is spoiled and needs attention most of the time.
She is getting better about playing on the floor by herself but still she needs a lot of attention.

I don’t mean to come across as complaining or whining.
I love those two more then I love my own life and I know all three grand daughters are true gifts from my Heavenly Father.
I just hope and pray I have the patience for this and that it is a good week.

My daughter in law says Keira gets sick every time my husband and I go on vacation and to be honest with you, she does.
Not sure why but it does happen.
Anyway the last time she left the state to go to Colorado with her uncle, Keira got sick too so…….

They will only be in Illinois and Wisconsin, not so far away but…..I hope both girls stay healthy.

Erica

there is a four year old little girl I know who is sick and dying

for a few months now she has been sick and in and out of the hospital.
The hospital, The University of Iowa  has run all kinds of tests on her and although there isn’t a medical term for it her little body makes white blood cells but her body attacks them as soon as they are made.
She has bruises all over her body and has been sick.
Sunday night her mother rushed her to the emergency room because she couldn’t wake her up and the hospital ran tests to find that she had a stroke.
Now she is in a coma and not responding even as they try to bring her out of the coma.
She is on life support.

I am not sure what they are going to do.
Her mother is 28 years old and Erika is the second daughter she has and she also has a little boy.

I ache for this little girl and for her family.
She is adorably cute and has the sweetest smile.

I know God has to take those He thinks need to go home to Him.
And I can even understand why He will need Erica, but it still is painfully hard for those who are left behind and have this huge void that will never be filled.

I don’t know Erica that well.

I have talked to her maybe a half a dozen times and only then in passing and not a real heart to heart talk.
Not that a four year old can really have  a heart to heart talk.
I have hugged her a couple of times too since she has been sick.

I know that she will go  to Heaven and live on God’s lap.
I know this because she is so innocent and pure

I am not speaking for God but I can only imagine He is going to take her home because only then will her suffering end.

My thoughts and prayers are with this precious four year old and her family.
May God see them through this horrific time.
Amen.

Sunrises and sunsets

God’s beauty is all around us, all we have to do is look.

Nana and sleepless nights

I love being my children’s grandmother.
Love it more then anything else in my life.
They are truly gifts from God and I thank Him daily for them

However being their Nana usually means I don’t get a lot of sleep when they are here over night.
NEARLY every time Keira wakes up and wants to watch TV or get something to eat or drink.
I try to put her off but if she doesn’t get her way she does get a little  loud and then generally wakes her sister up.
A few times Kayla has been the one that wakes Keira up, but it generally doesn’t happen that way.
So last night I was awake and dozing from two thirty till about five this morning.
Kayla went back to sleep first and Keira did around five.

Keira got up at eight (I got up at seven thirty) and Kayla is still sleeping.

I Love these two little girls.
They are so wonderful and so very important to me.
And yes they are worth losing sleep over.
But sometimes especially during the middle of the night when I am begging Keira to let me sleep, I think, why do I do this?
But I know why.
Holding Keira and getting her hugs and her I love you’s  is worth all the gold on this earth.
Holding Kayla and having her fall asleep on my chest or for her to raise her arms up for me to hold her, OR her fantastic beautiful smile is worth a thousand nights with out sleep.

another day in the life of Nana

I have had the youngest grand daughters since ten thirty Friday morning and we had another eventful night last night.
Kayla went to bed at a eight thirty but it took me singing to her and laying down with her to get her to go to sleep.
Keira told me after I came out of my bedroom that she was tired so we went in to bed at eight forty five and she was asleep before nine ten.

Kayla woke up at one fifteen and was awake and talking to herself until two thirty then she got fussy and I gave her a five ounce bottle.
She went back to sleep and slept till six thirty.

It is going on ten am now and she just went back to sleep at nine thirty.

Keira woke up at four thirty and wanted to watch Shrek, so she did and she was back asleep before six.

I love my grand babies so much.
They are wonderful beautiful gifts from God.
But I won’t lie to you.
I will be thrilled to go to bed tonight and sleep all night without being interrupted.

So while Keira is playing here with her babies and pretending that she is “mom”

and Kayla is sleeping.
I have a few quiet moments before round  twelve………. or forty begins.

Nana’s angels

these two wonderful little girls are my most wonderful treasures from my heavenly Father.

I so love being their Nana!!!!

The heart of it all

these two wonderful little girls stayed the night last night.
Kayla slept ten and a half hours and woke up at six thirty in a wonderful mood.

Keira woke up at two and was awake until four and watched “Shrek” before falling back to sleep.
She also got up at six thirty but wasn’t quite as happy as her little sister.
Still she was in a decent mood and helped me take care of Kayla by feeding her with me and putting toys down on Kayla’s blanket on the floor so she could play.
I have said this before but it bears repeating
There is nothing more important as our Lord God but these two wonderful little girls are wonderful gifts from Him.
I so adore them both and I love being their Nana.  I thank Him daily for the gifts of these two little girls
I can not thank him enough for them
So I will say it once more today…..

Thank you once again gracious Heavenly Father for these two precious girls.
Amen.

They are the heart of who I am.