September 9, 2018 – All About Love for Guillianna and Elijah

Grandparents Day 2018

Nana September 9, 2018 0Comments

Today is grandparents day and I wonder in your your new school they have a scheduled day where in your grandparents are able to come like at Notre Dame? If so whether it is today or any other day … we are there with you! We live in your hearts.

Forever … there is no amount of time or distance that changes a persons memories. Today I unpacked boxes at the storage facility. I found so many memories. Letters to poppy and I from your mom when she was small. Photos and box after if box of memories. All will be preserved and kept for you guys to one day see. I also found the wedding dress I wore when I married poppy. The train of the dress is now little bears. You may remember that you asked me to make sure Grandma Sally didn’t cut up the dress. So she didn’t. It’s also kept with all the other special things Poppy is saving. Grandparents day is every day really. If we see our grandchildren or if we don’t we ALWAYS will love them to the moon and back. All of them. So don’t worry – we know and have so many beautiful cards and letters from you to keep us smiling until we see each other again. Never worry about if you are loved by us, Never worry if you are missed , and never worry that the path you’re on makes it hard for you to see your other relatives. We all know you’re busy and we all love you – forever and always

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Love to the moon and back…..

❤️Nana and Poppy❤️

This site was originally written when Guillilanna was born. During her parents deployment and training, we would keep Guillianna in the Mitten. Then Elijah was born and he too was a frequent flyer to the Mitten. They lived with us on and off for nine years. Over the last deployment to Korea and during the past three years where in the kids lived with us for three consecutive years, the internet and this site was not really used to communicate with their parents, FACETIME was quick and easy. Their dad recently got out of the Army and they were relocated. We have not seen or talked with Eli or Guillianna for months. Last we saw them on FaceTime was May 2018. Last we held them December 2017, just after Christmas. Yet the reality is THIS IS NOT ABOUT just OUR BROKEN HEARTS- it is about theirs, ours and our entire family! for these kids who are so small and innocent, they have had a major change in thier lives. It is our hope that the journaling of our time together, and the and the new love letters for them will one day allow them to truly know the depth of love we ALL here in the Mitten have for them.

This site is also a special gift for our daughter, it documents all kinds of small details and images for her to keep, love and enjoy! These memories encompass nine and six years of the lives of her children! A true gift, that one day she may actually appreciate and have gratitude for. She doesn’t think of us as her parents at present, but maybe in the future, she will sit and reflect on all these memories, maybe she will see the love and dedication that she herself was given because of our love for her. If not, this journal, can hopefully one day allow Guillianna and Elijah to see and feel the truth, the love, and they will realize the amazing impact they have had on all of us here in the Mitten, and they will feel the love of all those who they spent their lives with, before embarking on the new journey they have begun. Friends, family alike have shared in nearly a decade of thier lives and all wish for the family to be happy. If it is a parents right and philosophy to “cut people out of your life like a kindergartener cuts out paper snowflakes” and raise their children to feel the same, this new set of love letters are written with the hope that in time the innocent will feel the love they HAVE always had, and the love they can ALWAYS carry it with them.

Grandparents Day 2018

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❤️Happy Birthday Guillianna ❤️

Happy birthday Elijah !

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