Dear; Mama & Buster
How are you? What am I thinking, of coarse your fine. Me? I’m doing better, but it’s been hard since ya’ll left. I miss you both, I can’t tell you the times I have almost pick up the phone to call and then reality sets in….. Reality? Is that what this is? Or is it where you are? I guess that is a question for the philosophers to answer. A lot has been going on latley so I just wanted to drop you a note and wirte it all down, maybe for my benefit.....
Well it happened, the boys all grew up, got married and left home. I guess I know how you both felt now. And empty house can be sad at times, but you just have to move on. Angie and I are making the best of it and are trying to use this time to reconnect. Seems you spend so much time being Mom and Dad that you forget about being a couple. So we choose to use this time to fall in love again every day and look back at the past with prideful eyes. I wish you both could have met the wives the boy’s chose. We are very lucky to have such great Daughters in law. Each one is very special and they keep the boys in line; but most of all each one of these new little families seems very happy. What a joy that is to see.
But I have saved the best news for last. The other day I met some special little people. That’s right, our little grandchildren arrived on this earth for their time in the sun. Oh if you could only see them. Mama; can you believe it…. Twins! A Boy and Girl no less. And Buster, you should see ole Ryan, he is just busting at the seams with pride. Chloe will be such a special mother to those two little ones, if you could only see her with them……. See them? Maybe you can; some how. It is times like these that I miss ya’ll most. I think I should turn around and see you both standing there. But your not and that time has passed. But I see you both in other ways. Sometimes in these new little faces we are getting to know; you are there. I catch a glimmer or a look and I see you. I guess that is God’s way of helping us remember the ones before.
Now I am a Grandparent. What a change, how fast time moves on. I think that is what I would like most about the place where you are. No movement of time, just being and enjoying the moments that last forever. But there is a lesson in that I guess, we have to learn to enjoy the moments and although they don’t last forever we have to hold on to them as if they do.
Buster; I wish you were here to share a word of advice or wisdom. And Mama; I know you would enjoy holding them and getting some of that sweet baby sugar. But my prayers for you both have ended. It is a void that is now filled with new ones that have come into my life that I will pray for. I promise I will pray, until I see you both again.
I have included some pictures of Angie and me with our Grandbabies.
I know you know this, but I will write it any way.
I Love you both
Randy
P.S. Tell Frank and Sara….Hi
