Pennsylvania Trip

Lydia & I headed to PA for a visit with G&G. We left the kiddos with the in-laws and made our trip. It was a good visit. I was sad to see the difficulty they had doing simple tasks, related to their health conditions. I was touched at how dependent they are on each other.

I remember visiting several years ago to help Grandma while Grandpa was in the hospital. She asked me teach her how to pump gas, because she had never done it before. I thought "what, she doesn't know how to pump gas??" and later on "how sweet that she has never had to pump her own gas." Grandpa took care of things in his own specific ways and Grandma took/takes great care of Grandpa.
While it is hard to see Grandpa unable to proceed with life as before, I feel the noticeable deficit without his management is a testimony of their marriage that worked like clock work.

Of course they have their issues with each other as all couples do, but I pray that my grandchildren will look to Joseph & me and notice that...

I don't eat very well when my husband isn't with me, I look forward to my wife's visits all day, I do things the way my husband liked, even when he becomes blind and will never know if I go in a different order while arranging the medicine, I hold my wife's hand when we sit together, I make sure to buy my husband the snacks he likes, I buy my wife jewelry because I know she loves pretty things, I ask him questions to make him feel included in conversation when others may have forgotten he is there, I pull my granddaughter aside to tell her to take care of Grandma while I am in a hospital bed...

Grandma and Grandpa celebrate their 65th anniversary this week. I am thankful for their marriage and their love for each other.





Happy Birthday Uncle AL!