Our Family

"Our Family is a circle of strength and Love
with every birth and every union
the circle grows, every joy shared
adds more love, every crises faced
together makes the circle stronger"

This week has been a test of our family's
strength and love and the above saying
just hit home. As you Know my eldest
sister Mary had a 7 heart bypass, she
is doing remarkably well for what she
went through she is now out of the ICU
unit and is in a private room in the CCU
better known as Critical Care Unit.

saw her today and she is hoping
and praying to be home sometime
this week, but knows she has
a long road in her recovery.

she showed me what she called "battle scars"
I told her to think of them as "SURVIVOR SCARS"
because she is so blessed as we the family are
that she is surviving.

Friday my sis Jeanne came down because
we were having a family gathering Saturday
at sister Helen's to meet Jeanne's first grandson
HUDSON
so with Mary's situation in the mix it made
family being together so much more special
Hudson is an adorable little boy and I will
do a blog about him at a later date.

what made Saturday so wonderful besides my
remaining sisters being together
(Mary of course with us in spirit)

was seeing two of my nieces that I had not seen in
a while, Sara (Helen's eldest daughter) is expecting her
first born in Sept, she knows she is having a little girl
so we look forward to that gathering in Sept.

but we were so blessed Saturday to see our eldest
niece Angela come with her wonderful husband,
Angela is my brother Peter's Eldest daughter
and we rarely get to see her so all of us
were very thrilled and happy and I for one
would like to see more of her even if I have
to drive out to her home town.(I would just love
for she and I to be apart of each other's life a little
more I have missed her very much)

another surprise was my nephew Steven called
from Japan( he is Jeanne's youngest son )
to give us all the good news that he and his wife are
expecting their first if all goes well in January

so the circle of the family is most definitely
strength and especially LOVE