ON LUCK, BLESSINGS, AND EMMA

 

Our Blessed Blessing
Emma Rose
Easter 2015

 
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Written to my sister, Mary...


I was thinking about your grand daughter Emma recently and wanted to share some thoughts with you.

Every time I see that sweet, gorgeous child I think, "We are so LUCKY/BLESSED!" And that is VERY TRUE, but it occurred to me recently that Emma's got some decent luck too!

She has a daddy that is a lot like your daddy and like my/our daddy! She has a good momma too, one that is far superior to some mommas you and I have seen and dealt with!

And she has US!!! Emma may not grow up in a sweet, simple time, like you and I did. She may not be able to be a teen in the 80s, ROCK ON! But she will have a grandma (a Mamie, please excuse me) that is unlike anything you and I had when we were little! (What would it have been like to have a Mamie?!) She will have some great aunts (Sandi, Lila, and me) that are unlike anything any of us had. She will have "The Aunts" like the kids in Practical Magic, only (in many ways) even better! There are FOUR of us "Aunts" and a "Mamie" and we are the real deal! We are all fun loving and eccentric and we've got her back! We are all on the job to support her health and happiness, and you and I, especially, are on the job to try to assure that Emma has not only the best of what we can uncover in today's world, but also the best of what we experienced as kids, and the best of what our kids experienced when they were little!

Emma has also already started training for some fantastic golden years of her own, and she has a support group that, as we say here in the mountains, "can't be beat with a ten foot pole!" Not only her Aunties and Mamie, but our parents, her Gran and Pap, her cousins Amanda, and Shana, and Barb and Elmer (have they met Emma yet?)  and Isaiah and Kim, etc. etc. etc!

She's almost as lucky/BLESSED as we are when we look at her sweet face!