It seems like our family has experienced a full circle of emotions over the past year. This past week, we added to that circle. Stewart's dad, Roy, passed away on Wednesday, December 10th, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. At the funeral on Saturday as we greeted the long line of those who came to express their sympathy, many said to me that they felt maybe he was just waiting to make sure Ellie Kate made it in the world safely to let go. Maybe so - I have learned never question these events that surround us that seem oddly coincidental. Most of the time I believe the Lord has made a way before we even knew we needed one! During the service, one of our family friends talked about how much "Papa" loved his family, and that no doubt he was probably playing hop scotch, ring around the rosie and patt-a-cake with Olivia in Heaven right now. What a precious thought. Abby calls these "happy-sads". We've tried to teach her what a wonderful place Heaven is and that we should be happy that our loved ones get to go to that wonderful place. We've also told her it's still ok to be sad sometimes because we miss them. She condensed that down to a "happy-sad". Anytime something is mentioned about a loved one gone on, she reminds us that it's just a "happy-sad". That's a good description of life from a four year old - just a long list of occurrences that are "happy-sad"!
Everyone else is doing great! Here are a few pictures from the last week.
This is a shot from Ellie Kate's first bath. It was VERY eventful! I'm thinking we could win $100,000 from America's Funniest Home Videos for the footage on this one. Ellie Kate graced Stewart with projectile poop right in the middle of the bath! I wish you could have seen his face!!!
I just had to include this shot of our Diva #1 - everyone keeps warning us that we will have our hands full when she turns 13. HA - I'm already worried. Who needs to wait for 13?
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