EASTER WITH GRANDCHILDREN - A NEW ADVENTURE!

We were blessed to have our son and his family home for Easter ... our first Easter with a grandchild! I was so excited I went on a shopping spree for our little granddaughter ... a little of this and a little of that and I ended up with more than could fit in her basket! I know that at 21 months old she does not need much of anything ... does not even want anything ... which made it even more exciting. I actually got to buy her a pair of cute little white sandals for Easter! I love buying things for my grandchildren that I know they will use and enjoy.

The second best thing was having our son and his wife home ... still young at heart and "into" the excitement of Easter egg and basket hunts. We loved setting up a "Treasure Hunt" for them as a unique way to give them a small monetary gift towards their new washer and dryer they had to buy recently. It was so much more fun than just handing them the money. Through it we were able to recapture some of the joys of "days gone by".

Things change so much when your children grow up and leave home. I now understand what my mother meant when she would say, regarding the holidays, "It's just another day to me." The holidays do lose their "magic" when you no longer have children at home to enjoy them with and do kind of blend in with all the other days of the year. I don't know what we would do if it was not for my husband's closeknit family that usually brings all of the brothers and sisters together on the holidays.

I won't soon forget this Easter and the blessing of being able to see it, once again, through the eyes of a child. Also, it was such a blessing for us to have our son, his wife, and our granddaughter in our church on Easter Sunday morning to worship with us and, of course, to "show off" to our church family. Most of them are blessed to have their children and grandchildren always with them and they share in our joy of having our kids home ... That's what "family" is all about, whether it be your blood family or "adopted" family - sharing each others joys as well as sorrows. How truly blessed we are!