the longest shortest week

Hannah and Ian are our 2 oldest grandchilden at ages 5 (6 this month!) and 4. I still can't believe how blessed I've been to get to be in the room when they were born and to live about 10 minutes away from them. This past December Bret, their dad and our second son, moved to Mobile to start a new job at the law firm Greene and Phillips. Delilah and the kids stayed here to finish out the school year since she was teaching and Hannah was in K5. The month of May Lilah and the kids lived with us. It was a wild ride having Dick, me, our 5 kiddos, Lilah, H, and I here. Every other weekend Bret was here. The month of June they were in Mobile (or Movile as Ian says)and this past week Bret and Lilah have been in San Francisco. H and I stayed with us.

I wasn't sure how things would go because I have felt awful for the past few months. My physical issues and now the side effects of my medications have left me feeling seriously rotten most of the time. My children have done a lot of taking care of me and I keep thinking someone needs to do something nice for them and not just ask them to do ONE more thing. But we made a committment to do this a good while back and I really WANTED to have them here so we dove in and have done it. It has been wonderful. Exhausting? Yes. Time consuming? Absolutely.

Time spent with these little munchkins can't be replaced. They bring so much joy. Ian said today, " GiGi I like fireworks because of the fire and the works!"

So all in all the week has flown by. Going into the week it looked like a really long time to have them but now it doesn't seem like it was long enough. Next week their little family moves to Dothan to open a new office for Greene and Phillips. If you need an attorney in Dothan look them up!