Won't be long now, a few short weeks and Grandma Camp starts. What started out as a great idea to get grandkids together went straight to getting family together. Fortunately we have a place on the Allegheny river that accomodate us and we love being on the river. Of course, I love having everyone home and especially watching all of the group interact and play together. Adults and kids alike are just having fun from super soakers to camp fires and water balloon fights. It is all part of a week that will be fun, exciting, fulfilling and exhausting. Nothing makes me happier than having my family together and her comes yet another chance to be together. One of the bigger kids has decided we need a Tshirt for each year and so will be designing something that we will then try to get done in time for camp. To see grandkids playing together and spending time together that they would not have otherwise is great too. Gpa and myself need another weeks vacation when it is all done but it is well worth it even with the trips to Pittsburgh airport and back. The amount of food, cooking, cleaning, and all is beyond belief and trying to meet everyone's needs and wants... well that is another challenge. When you get a son home that hasn't been home for a year and he wants Grandma's corn and strawberry pretzel salad, well of course, I am going to make it. It is fulfilling and the best gift that anyone can give me. We all fall in bed exhausted at night, to turn around and start all over again in the morning. Well, I am gearing up and excited. I will try to keep my outbursts to a minimum as I get ready for all the challenges and yet we will all have some ups and downs and of course me crying when they all leave to go back to their lives and the quiet will be deafening. I for one am not a loner and although I know they have their lives, I love when they step back into mine. Doesn't matter they age, they will always be my kids and I could no longer stop worrying about them or caring for them anymore than I could stop breathing. So this blog is about family and sharing the good times as we have all experienced the bad. Enjoy today... that is my motto and keep on smiling and as always make it a good day.S
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AuthorMy name is Sue Kilburn and I am a clinical nurse breast cancer educator at the Yolanda G. Barco Oncology Institute in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Archives
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