I really do have a life besides this blog and I share some of it on my Grandma blog, The View from Camp Kreitzer.
This past weekend, my 75th birthday, offered a generous helping of family love and fun. I was taken out for ice cream on Saturday by seven beautiful damsels and on Sunday all the local families came together for a murder mystery party with a pirate theme, lovingly planned and implemented by three of my children and their families. What a grand event!We love to pray and play together: Sunday Mass, grace before meals, rosaries around the campfire, and joyful holiday (holy day) and sacramental celebrations.
This Easter offers us the fulfillment of Luke 6:38:
Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.
At the Easter vigil, our son-in-law will embrace the fullness of the Catholic faith, our granddaughter will be confirmed, and our grandson will make his first Communion. I am on notice to make a first communion cake per the seven-year-old's wishes. He remembers the one I made for his older sister.
Thanksgiving was a wonderful day because we had the rare occasion of everyone being together except our married granddaughter and her husband. Since our Texas family doesn't come often, we took the photo op to show the Kreitzer family village -- you know, the village that raises the children. Thank you Lord for every precious citizen!
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| The "silly face" picture -- Grandma and Paka figure our normal faces are silly enough! |
The best pro-life message is contained in that picture.
ReplyDeleteSure, the extreme death cult will never be convinced. But for those for whom the message is intended - you have a choice to make: barren and alone as you march through life to your old age ... or this.
Happy Seventh-fifth birthday. By the look of it, you had a lovely day with your family. May God bless you and your whole family.
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Yes, we had family pictures like that when I was growing up with my grandparents and more than 30 cousins and so forth. It was wonderful! Grandma and Grandpa were the hub of the large family wheel. I was blessed to be a part of it.
ReplyDeleteMary Ann, what a beautiful family you have and what a beautiful post. Happy 75th! You've got just a few months on me. I turn 75 in July. Oh, and thank you for the kind comment on my blog.
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