FAMILY GROWTH. . .TWO AT A TIME!

My beautiful, wise, wonderful daughter is a mom of two bubbly girls who are a delight.  And she is pregnant.  Again.  With TWINS!!!  Wow.  She and her husband have successfully grown through the process of dating since middle school, going through the college years at University of Florida, an amazing beach at sunset wedding, the birth of Hannah and the birth of Claire.  How wonderful it has been to see their life unfold as God has kept them close to Him and they have been involved in ministry all along the way.  And now their lives are being blessed in a very special way by the lives of TWO new baby boys.  The entire family is waiting anxiously for the day we can celebrate their arrival and finally meet Jack and Henry.  What an amazing joy, incredible challenge, gigantic responsibility and unfathomable adventure twins will surely bring to this young family!  As the grandmother, or "Gi Gi" as I am called, my role will be to support my daughter and her husband with whatever kind of help I can offer.  At times it will be the physical work of housekeeping, preparing meals, doing laundry and scrubbing a toilet.  Often it will be hands-on grand-mothering including changing diapers, washing little faces, filling sippy cups and making the little girls giggle.  Most dear to my heart is being the mom, giving my daughter a shoulder to lean on, a voice of encouragement on the phone and reinforcing her knowledge that I will forever be her personal cheerleader.  I truly miss those mothering days when my children were spilling milk and playing hide and seek.  As they have grown, I have grown.  Now I watch them and their family grow. . .and I am still growing.  Family growth.  It's not just about numbers.  It is about love.  How deep. . .how wide. . .how pure. . .how true.  And now we will have two more to love.  Tonight I am praising Him who is LOVE and the author of our family's story.