Category: Family

We have been so blessed! We now have another Granddaughter. Rachel Marie was born to Nathan and Elizabeth McGuire the 8th of January 2007. She arrived at 1:08 P.M. in Beckley, West Virginia. She weighed 7 lbs. 4.5 oz. and was 20.5 inches long.

We were able to take a long weekend the 15th of January and meet her. We got to visit her again this week and see how she has grown. She has lots of dark hair that curls when it is wet. She smiles a lot and loves to be held. Her big brother, David, is just a little bit proud.

She is a beautiful little girl and she keeps the numbers even. Three Grandsons and Three Granddaughters. We are so blessed.

It has been a while since I wrote. It has been busy and then to have a length of quiet time to write and think is difficult. One would think that with the kids all gone quiet time and time to set at the computer would be easier, but it is not.

A lot of things have happened since I last wrote. The first important thing was last March 21st. I received a phone call at 1:30 A.M. asking if I could come stay with three of our grandchildren That was the night Adrian Matthew was born. He arrived at 3:33 A.M. about 45 minutes after Mom and Dad arrived at the hospital and a few minutes before the doctor. He weighed 7 lbs. 11 ox. and was 20.5 inches long.

It was so much fun to celebrate Adrian’s first birthday with him. He is an active, inquisitive, happy little boy, just as he should be. He has a mouth full of teeth. He climbs up and down stairs with no fear. He threatens to walk, but has not yet.

What to put under Oma’s Corner?? That is a hard question. I could do many things, but maybe right now I’ll just talk until I have a better idea.

I enjoyed my grandkids a lot this Christmas break. I purchased some foam picture frame ornaments and we decorated them and put their pictures in it for their parents. They are really cute. I think that I will have Opa make more pictures so all the grandparents can have a copy. I will have to send David’s to him and see if he will decorate it at home.

We also had fun making stepping stones. They are almost too pretty to put outside. Maybe we can make more, decorated in different materials and/or hand prints and foot prints next Christmas (or maybe sooner). That would be fun.

Also, we had fun at Pottery Smottery. Mark, Andrea and David painted a cocoa mug in a class. They also got hot chocolate to drink and stories. It was fun. Audrey made a mug with her mom and put her hand prints on it. They will be real cute and fun to drink from. I should explain that Pottery Smottery is an open studio where one can go, buy and paint pottery. They have lots to choose from and the price includes the paint and the glazing afterward. The bad part is that one has to wait a whole week to get the finished product. That is a long time to wait for something you have worked on so hard.

Audrey, her mom and I went for several walks. Mark, David and I and Opa visited Great Grandma at Greencroft Retirement Center. Neither one wanted to leave. They were having fun. They were watching the cat under the chair and discussing the fact that the cat was not used to David because he hadn’t been there before. There they lay, flat on the floor with heads stuck under the chair. David said, “I think that it is getting used to me. I just pet it gently. That’s how you get cats used to you. Just pet gently.” Pretty soon, Mark said,” OK, now let’s see what we have learned.” David said,”I know what I learned. Cats can sit up like dogs!”

Mark has lots of friends at Greencroft. He gives them hugs and kisses and talks to them, even when he can’t understand a word they say or they can’t talk. He is a real little missionary to those people and the nursing staff. One lady was talking to him about his daddy being away in Pakistan. She was saying how terrible the earthquake was and how bad it was to have his daddy gone. Mark just said that “God allowed this to happen so that those people would get to know Jesus.” That lady could only say, “Well, how about that.”

We went to church on Christmas Day. David, Mark and Andrea set with us in “big church” and did very well. It was Andrea’s first time. We went home and had a huge turkey dinner (29 lb. Turkey) and then opened presents after hearing the “rest of the story”. We read some of Jesus’ birth on Christmas Eve before the grandkids opened the traditional pj’s from Oma and Opa and then we heard the rest on Christmas Day. It is wonderful to see that even 2yr. old, Audrey, knows that it is Jesus’ birthday we are celebrating.

The Lord has blessed us with wonderful grandchildren, who are being taught the important things in life. They are being taught about Jesus and how to please Him by learning and reading His Word. They are being taught that others are important. I am so thankful and blessed beyond what I deserve. I continue to pray for them, their parents and uncles, that they would continue to love our Heavenly Father and choose to serve Him and please Him where ever they are. I pray that they would be pure in all ways for Him.