Life Happens...and the Blog Gets Put on the Back Burner!

Life as a 'blogger' is way more difficult than I ever dreamed it would be!! You would think that as much as I enjoy talking, I would equally enjoy blogging, but it just doesn't work that way. I think about my blog just about every day, and I feel guilty when I don't open my cute little Mac and start typing away, but life has really been 'happening' these days and my blog... plus dusting, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms and most laundry, has really taken the backseat!

I'm not going to bore you with all of the details of my life, but I would like to share an incident with you that has changed my daily life considerably...and my emotional life as well. On September 6, my mom, Harriet Wolf, took a spill in her home and fractured her left hip. She was admitted to St. Agnes, and had surgery on the 10th. She is now recuperating and in daily therapy at the California Armenian Home in Sunnyside. This was such a wake-up call for our whole family about how quickly things happen, and how accidents like this can alter our daily lives. We quickly realized how much we love our parents (and grandparents), how much they mean to us, and how sad we are for them when they are hurting.

My mother will turn 87 tomorrow and my father is almost 89, so we feel very fortunate that they have both been so healthy and independent for so many years. My dad no longer drives a car...but still loves being on a tractor now and then, and he just got a Gator to 'putt' around the ranch on...but it has been very difficult for him to depend on family members for rides to visit my mom. We have a fairly large family who have been great to help out with rides and meals for Grandpa, and who visit Grandma on a daily basis, but we will all be so grateful when she is well enough to come home again and be with her 'sweetheart' of 66 years!

Please pray for my parents as they navigate this season of their life...it is not easy, but they are both strong people and are greatly in love with the Lord, and are looking forward to seeing Him face to face...in His perfect timing.


Now, more than ever, I am so grateful that we took the time for a family photo in June. On June 16, 2011, 44 of us (plus another to arrive in 3 weeks), all got cleaned up, put on our jeans, and met at the 'old barn'. It is great having a photographer in the family, our daughter-in-love Amy! Somehow she got us all arranged by families and started clicking away. The end result is priceless...seeing Grandpa and Grandma surrounded by a family that loves and adores them, and greatly appreciates all that they have done for us! I highly encourage every family to take the time and make a little effort to get together for a family photo...you will never regret it!