Spring Cleaning.....

Today is the first day of spring and it is snowing in Texas........... Yesterday it was in the 70s and this morning it was 32 degrees....... So, since it is too cold to play outside Hannah and I are cleaning up and organizing her room......... makes me sad because we are getting rid of so many "little" girl things. She is growing up. Sigh........... While we were cleaning up we found a pair of glasses that don't have lenses in them that Dad gave Hannah. And, then Hannah found the picture she painted to remember Granddad after he died. She was looking for a frame to frame the picture but the canvas is an odd size....... Then for a moment she was really quiet and after a few minutes she came to me and told me she was sad. I asked her why and she held up the picture that she had painted and pointed to it and I immediately knew what she was thinking without any more words......... The loss of my Dad, her Granddad........... is felt down to the core every day by all of us. And just when you thought you were moving forward, things like this take you backwards............ I know Dad would be so proud of all of us ........ proud of his oldest for loosing weight and "checking" her blood sugar, proud of his baby girl for school, proud of his next to oldest for all of her accomplishments and buying her "first place" and proud of his son for going to school and most of all proud of his wife for taking care of what she needs to take care of the best she knows how. We miss you Dad............... We are thankful for all of these little reminders of you.............. I like to think of the snow as Dad sending down blessings on us. Happy Spring.........