Grandma Henke

I spent the evening browsing through family blogs … my kids and the nieces and nephews … What fun!    It brings back so many memories of raising my own family when I read the clever things the children say and the struggles the mothers have to keep everything under control.    Sometimes it doesn’t seem very long ago and other times it seems like a whole other lifetime!     I’m sure I look normal to my grandchildren who expect me to look old and “softer” … with a splattering of wrinkles … but sometimes I still startle myself when I look in the mirror and don’t see the body of a 35 year old woman.

This Wednesday we are going to pick up the motor home in Vegas.    I’m excited to get it home and loaded up for the road and get this pile of “stuff” out of my living room.    I live in dread someone will stop by to visit and I will have to blind fold them and lead them by the hand through the maize to the sofa.   Some of the “stuff” has been packed tightly in new see through bins and those Lynn will lovingly (?) haul to be stored.    I imagine in a year or two what is in those bins will finally make its way to the Deseret Industries … but not yet.   You never know … Might need it some day.   Then there is the stuff in bags that is already to go to the D.I. … that will be taking off tomorrow or Tuesday morning because the Visiting Teachers are coming Tuesday afternoon and we’ve got to find a place for them to sit.

Boy were the children hyper today in church.   We have the 11:00 to 2:00 schedule and it was easy to see that most of them had been sugared up on Easter Candy.    I was glad to be assigned to Relief Society today and not primary!     Lynn was one of the speakers in Sacrament Meeting today and he gave a nice talk on the atonement and the sacrament.  I enjoyed listening to him speak  and looking at his kind face and beautiful white hair.   I never tire of hearing his testimony.    It strengthens my own.

This picture was taken just before Lynn was put in as Bishop, back in 1987 I think.  It’s probably about the last Easter before the kids started on missions, marrying off, and leaving home.   Who’d have thought it would have come as fast as it did?   

And this is a picture of my grandparents the night of our wedding.   I stumbled on it while I was looking for another picture … which I never did find.    It’s funny, though, because I was thinking of them earlier today and thinking how wonderful it is that I know I will see them again some day.