gimini210's Blog

As we all know Christmas is just around the corner. We will each celebrate it in our own way and hopefully it will bring joy to all of us, even the people who do not always agree with us as well as those who do. This Christmas I was blessed with an early gift. My second great grandson. I am very lucky to have an extremly large family that is loving and close all year around. If I get nothing else I will have been given the greatest gift of all. I will have seen my children grow into adults and have families of their own as well as my grandchildren doing the same.

These are my blessings over the last two Chrismases. With all that is going on in the world today there does not seem to be alot to be thankful for but I look at the faces of my great grandsons and I see the hope of a new generation and the history of my family. I know it is strange but there is a history in those two tiny faces.

My parents were children of share croppers, my father was a traveling boxer, and my mom eventually a single mother with a 5th grade education. She got her GED and went on to support 4 of us until she remarried. Now we have children who own farms, businesses and homes and have college educations. In these two boys I see how we came from nothing to where we are and they one day will be looking into the faces of a new generation and leaving a bit of history with them.

I have compiled a family tree going back to the 1700's to pass down to our newest generation that gives them an idea of where they came from and where they can end up. I want them to see the blessings they are and have as they look into their own grandchildrens faces.

So when all looks as if there is little to be thankful for look into the faces of the new generation and think of where they came from and what they can do. Life is what we make of it and what we leave behind. I am leaving hardworking, proud and loving children with a history to look back on. I raised them to be honest and to give as well as take. I am proud of my family and my newest additions.

Nite all and Merry Christmas, God bless.