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| On a shuttle headed to the airport thinking about home. |
Well, friends, I've made it home.
I flew alone, from Texas to California, and I spent a month there. Going to California for the summer is not unusual for me, as most of you know. My mom and sister and nieces and a couple of my brothers and a couple of my sons all live there. But going alone is rare. My youngest sons almost always join me.
And, certainly, going to California in order to be there with my oldest son and his wife while they have their first baby is new! My first granddaughter!
It. Was. Fantastical.
Talk about new! A new life, a new role for me, a new role for my son, new roles for everyone!
Birth is always miraculous. And when it happens to your family, when it's personal, it changes and effects and shifts your world. It discombobulates and redefines and renews your sense of self and purpose.
It's spectacular and beautiful and exhausting and invigorating.
It's life; new, remembered, shared, shifted, edited, and all-encompassing.
All of our roles are being redefined and built fresh. And all because of one perfectly tiny little girl.
Our perfectly tiny little girl!
It's good to be home, but I also miss her and the intensity of it all.
But, it's good to be home. With my husband and younger sons. With my books and my bed and my coffee maker. It's good to be home.
And my granddaughter's home is her mommy and daddy. (Boy, she's got a beautifully loving home!) So my new role includes the necessity of me leaving, of me going home. As her grandma, as my son's mom, I want to get out of the way while my granddaughter explores and demands from and helps build her new home. I want that for her and for her mom and for her daddy.
Her daddy: my son: their home.
It feels not long ago that I was his home.
New roles for all of us, friends! New roles, yes, but consistently and always we are one great big strong supportive loving family!!
Don't believe me? Here, let me show you!!!
(Sneaky "check out my pictures" segue! tee hee!)
Hugs, smiles, and love!!!!
Autism Answers with Tsara Shelton (Facebook)
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| Daddy and daughter |
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| My sister, her two youngest daughters, and my granddaughter. New roles! |
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| Grandma time for me! |
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| My mom, The Brain Broad, loving her great-grandma role! |
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| My brother, Dar, wondering if maybe THIS time he'll have clear language first. :D |
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| My second oldest son relishing his role as uncle! |
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| The new family - Home |
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| It's nice to love your home. Sweet dreams! |
