Saturday, December 28, 2013

Our Family At Christmas = Gratitude!

Alli, Ron, myself, Kevin, Matt, Marita, Brian, Kristin - we all surround Grandma Nan with smiles and love and celebration!
There is so much to celebrate! My gratitude list overflows. Mom is finally home, and home for good! Our family is healthy and strong. The capacity within myself, my marriage, my/our children to ride the waves of life's challenges grows stronger with each passing year as does our capacity to open and deepen our hearts.

My prayer, always, is that we may all open to the preciousness of our lives. Right along side all the messiness, tears, heartaches is this abundance of beauty, joy, love, blessing. May we all continue to expand in our experiences of opening to it all, this life we are each given. This is my daily prayer, my daily gratitude practice. 

Individually and collectively, our family has come so far. This has been my great life passion - to transform a legacy of generational tragedy and loss to one of healing, beauty, love. Miracles happen. Blessed be.

May we all be at peace. May our hearts remain open. May we know the beauty of our true nature. May we be healed.

With gratitude and love ~ Molly

Sharing cards, pictures, gifts with Mom/Grandma Nan
Every moment is priceless
Our excellent Christmas adventure continues at a Thai Restaurant
We all converge at Grandma Nan's apartment to shower Mom with gifts from the heart
There is growing fun and happiness in the air!
Kristin and Marita hold up old family photographs we gift Grandma Nan with to create her wall of family photos in her new apartment. Among the treasures I found are these of my mother as a little girl and as an infant held by her mother.
Ron and Mom at our home.
Grandkids Kevin & Kristin, Matt, Marita & Brian
Ron & me at Brian and Marita's home, Christmas 2013.

3 comments:

Kathi's Kreations said...

Beautiful! The pictures are also wonderful!

Gayla said...

Beautiful. A long journey to be here now! Living the Present! Great gratitude for your family! <3 G.

Anonymous said...

Fun to see these photos. Thanks to the wedding and the other per-nup gathering, I practically feel like a member of the family! Look forward to seeing you in the new year, Molly et al. xo, Ginny