Christmas at Grammie and Papa's...

Lots of thoughts and feelings come from looking at the above picture of my son and my brother together at Christmas. I love seeing it, and I realize as I look at it again now that it's such a rarity to see these two people that I care about so much together in the same place. Gavin had made a picture for Uncle Zachie, and I'm sure he was explaining it in great detail in this photo.

Grammie and Gavin have a special relationship. My mom adores him, and Gavin is really sweet with her and almost unexpectedly sensitive about her bad back.

We tried to keep our boys busy building Legos during the long gift opening time. How cute is Camille (our sweet niece!) "playing" with all the boys?! It was so fun to be with her at Christmastime.

Auntie Lorna read a book to Gavin at my mom's, and he loved it. I loved seeing them together. Again, I'm struck by how little they get to be together, so I really try to relish all of these moments.

Here I am with my precious niece, Camille. Honestly, I had a couple of teary moments when she was home this visit. I was aware that I would never be having a little girl of my own, and then I was sad that my sweet niece and the kids' cousin lives so darn far away. It doesn't seem fair sometimes. And though none of us like the current situation, it just is that way right now. I hope that someday we'll all live closer to one another again. I'd love to hold her more often!