92 years old !!

Hey there folks. here we are again. Today was a lovely party for Opa (great opa for the Jules) and he turned 92!! wowzers!
he is so sweet. gentle. loving. He looks just like he did when he was 6. all cute and boyish. Always touched by the smallest act of kindness and thought toward him. very sweet. Julia was rumbling around with Joel, her second cuz. He is 7 months her junior, but with her cast on they hobbled and wobbled just the same!! ha.


This is our only date picture. we got home and i realized i hadn't taken any pictures!! oh nooo how can one post without pictures???? aaaaahhhhhh. So this is our story. We waved farewell to dear Julia, then packed our goods and left for the bridge. As we began to pass over the bridge a fog enveloped us, it was so thick we could barely see past our van. then we watched xmen 3, found a renaissance fair to wander through, and had icecream for a lovely walk beneath the bridges. the fair was AWESOME. it was closed, but the vendors and actors stay on the grounds for the weekend in their 'old fashioned' tents. Fires were lit, fragrant smoke beckoned us in....children ran by playing games in the dusk. fire blackened pots holding stews wobbled over fires, a full skinned pig lay out over a wood pile awaiting it's turn on the spit. the scent of grass and camp fire mingled with the sounds of children's laughter and conversation was so richly naustalgic that we could hardly speak. mmmmm. it was lovely.

Great Opa.....mmmmm cake. :)


Family photo....as we watch the trackor across the street from the family farm.


my favorite..........childlike simplicity. grass. barefeet. bare cast... gazing at the sky. listening to the sounds of evening. asking for more cake. (i'm sure this is a direct memory from my own farm visits as a child...) running. playing. singing. eating. picking grass, pinecones, dirt. reaching up to the sky and laughing, "i reach the sky!" she says. hmmmmm. Doesn't it make you pine for something that you can't quite think of?? Isn't it the word, the action of a child that makes you recall a distant dream, a place you want to be, a freedom you want to embrace?? ooooh. i'm so glad God teaches us these things again as parents. i never want to forget what it is to be a child.

mysterious.
beautiful.
carefree.
sensitive.
loved.


hmmmm. goodnight.