Texas, Again!
My daughter and her family have moved to Amarillo, Texas. After all these years, we're suddenly back in a state I never wanted to be in again. Not that I am not a proud Texan. I really am. I'm thrilled that my new granddaughter is a born in Texas Texan. It's been a long time. I was the last in the family. It's just that I had to go to Texas every year for Christmas all the years I was growing up in the north. I thought when my grandparents died, my Christmas trips were finally a thing of the past. Then in September my kids moved to Amarillo and two days before Christmas found us driving the 16 hours to spend Christmas with them in Texas. It was such a sense of deja vu! In fact it was a little rough on me. After the first couple of days, though, I worked through the old memories while loving and cuddling on my new granddaughter and chasing her big sister all over the house amidst yelps and belly laughs. I've missed her terribly and now I miss them twice as much. It was so much fun to be together and to see Steven and Angela's new home. I'm very happy for them as Steven really likes Central and Angela loves her new house. They are finally able to settle down some and get to know people now that they are moved in and the baby is finally here. All these things are good. Even so, all this good is sitting on top of a lot of sadness and grief of being so far away from each other. Isn't it amazing how God has blessed us with so many good and perfect gifts from above to offset the sorrow and sadness of separation. I wonder if that isn't the same kind of thing that helps us in our separation from him. He continually blesses us every day with wonderful things to help us make it through our separation from him until that day when we will finally be together for eternity. I know I am thinking of whether it would be a good thing to move to Amarillo to be closer to my kids. At the same time it' s one of my yearly quests to do whatever it takes to move closer to my Jesus. It's an interesting parallel.
posted by Dana @ 12:09 PM
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