Have had a couple of somewhat busy weeks with Vanessa here and us going here and there, but it has slowed down as she left Tuesday and I am able to sit down in front of my computer again and do some blogging. We had a nice visit and I hope she was able to get a little rest considering how busy she is all the time when she is home.
It feels sad to me though that I wasn't going home with her as this is the first summer in 9 years that we (me and Sean Michael and later Kyla) haven't gone this time of year to California. We always seem to be there on the 4th of July and last year I even picked out a place for this year to see the fireworks. But life (or lack thereof) prevented that and so here I am, still in Virginia. Missing my mom, my grandson, my granddaughter, and the memories we have there. I had planned on going but work prevented it, and actually given all the things that have happened maybe that was a good thing though Janie and I would have been on the road by now on our way back to here. Still, Cali in the summer wouldn't have been quite the same without the grandkids and Mom being there.
Tonight we went out with another couple for dinner and the wife had just recently lost her mom to lung cancer and so I finally had someone I could talk to about Mom, someone who understood and felt the same way, like praying that God take them but then not really wanting them to die. We both had a few tears but it was nice being able to talk to someone about it.
And then they had about the same situation with a couple of their kids that we are experiencing with Sean Michael. It was just interesting how much we had in common and we did have a nice time together and hopefully will be able to get together again.
Huh....I hadn't planned for this blog post to go this way; I had planned on posting pictures from Vanessa's visit but tomorrow is another day. My mind just rambles sometimes and obviously I have my mom and grandkids in my thoughts.
I just don't know how to not miss them.
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