New Year

Here it is a new year and I am visiting my daughter and her family in Maine. In fact I have been here since the 15th and I will be going home tomorrow! I have had a wonderful time seeing all of them, but it will be nice to get back and see the rest of the family and friends. You don't realize how much you need all your family and friends until they are not available to you, either by death or just being displaced from your loved ones and friends for a short time. I miss my husband so very much! We are nearing the date of his death. Two years he will be gone and it still seems like he should walk around the corner anytime to greet me, hold my hand and tell me he loves me! Thank goodness I can still hear his words and see his face in my mind. I still wish he was here with us now. He would have loved visiting Maine.
This visit was a surprise for my daughter's birthdayand it was a surprise. My son in law and I have been plotting! Since Thanksgiving in fact! Everyone back home has known, and only one person in Maine found out. that would be my oldest grand daughter! She guessed! Of course she was pestering and prodding her dad to find out what he was getting her mom for her birthday! Such a smart and wonderful grand daughter! She kept the secret though and we pulled it off without a hitch! The look on Christy's face! Wow! Jason got it on camera. She is going to be a nurse anthesist and is going to school now. Very proud of her, you know!! Besides I probably would never have gotten to Maine if they didn't come up!