I know there are not many people who can say that they still had four grandparents when they got married! I'm one who can say that. My Dad's parents, Nana and Poppy couldn't make the event due to health problems, but they were still alive. And my Grandma and Grandpa were there for the day.

   As a matter of fact, my Grandpa married us and I was wearing my Grandma's wedding dress - 50 years and one month to the day after she wore it!!!

   When McGee was born my Grandma was sick with cancer and she died when he was six months old, but not untill after we had gotten over to spend a couple of months with her. She was ecstatic to meet her Great-Grandson and enjoyed lots of cuddles!!!

   Three years ago when we flew in for Christmas we drove up to Michigan where my Nana and Poppy were in a home and saw them for the first time since the year of our wedding. They got to meet both our boys and we got to be there for their wedding anniversary that year - seventy I think!!

   Then last year Poppy passed away. We were sooo glad we had made the trip out when we flew in that time and got to see them both before they got too bad. My Nanna had Alzhiemers (sp?) and my Poppy was getting bad with Dementia. But they both recognized me and that was nice!

   Yesterday my Mom told me that my Nanna was not doing well and wasn't eating or drinking. This morning she said that my Aunt who lives near by had visited and she was apparently in a coma and her breathing was quite shallow. My Aunt who lives in Florida jumped straight onto a plane to go and say goodbye, but my Nanna went to be with the Lord before she landed.

   I have just spoken to my parents on the webcam. My Dad is upset, but is also very grateful to his new employer who is giving him three days off with pay next week for the funeral!!

   Saturday is Bunny's birthday party, so they will drive out to Michigan on Sunday as the funeral is going to be on Tuesday and then they will drive back on Wednesday so he can be back to work on Thursday. At least that is the plan at the moment.

   Please pray for both of my Aunts at this time too. As well as loosing both of their parents within the past year, they have both been widowed during that time too!!! So they are finding all of this very hard at the moment, as is all of the family. It is tough to loose two grandparents and two uncles in just over a year!

   It is also hard to be so far away from everyone too! I was already upset about missing the birthday celebrations and now this. I don't have many clear memories of Nana as they moved to Florida when I was just four and I only have a handfull of memories from a few brief visits after that.

   One VERY clear memory I do have is of sitting on her lap while she trimmed her 'little trees' as I used to call them - Bonsai. She grew these miniature trees and when I was tiny I would sit in her lap as she reached around me to trim them on the table in front of us. I only recalled this memory a few years ago, and my mother confirmed that I did used to sit on her lap while she tended them, although the family had never mentioned it since. It was special for me to know that it was an actual memory and not just me remembering someone  talking about it.

   Tonight I have sat here and thought that I might just find a garden center tomorrow or this weekend and get myself another bonsai. I say another because I have already killed 2 or 3 of them in the past few years! But I might see if I can find a really hardy variety and a well established one and see if I can make a go of it.

   Anyway, in the fifteen years since I got married I have now gone from four Grandparents to just one. And that one has been fighting a recurring cancer for the past four years or so. He keeps on going to work everyday, despite chemo and everything! He simply says that God still has work for him to do and he will carry on with it till the day God calls him home!

    Grandpa has baffled the Dr's and all the rest of us. I pray that God grants him the health he needs to be able to join us on a little holiday we have booked for September. We are hoping to take him to his mother's birthplace on the French/Swiss border and then on for a weeks holiday in Italy.

   I pray that God grants us that time for my boys to get to really make some memories with their Great Grandpa while they still can. And I wouldn't complain at a few more memories stocked up in my memory banks either!! He is very extra precious to me and when God calls him home, I will be in peices!!!

    I'm sorry that this blog seems to be one prayer request after another at the moment. There just seems to be so much going on! Thanks for sticking it out. I'm sure one of these days I'll blog about something boring, like say - homeschooling???

   But for now I just want to say 'Goodnight Nanna.'