December 2018 – Page 8 – All About Love for Guillianna and Elijah

Baking a cake ….

Nana December 2, 2018 0Comments

Dear Guillianna and Elijah:

Here is a photo of what I was doing last year this time according to my image memories. Someone was going to have a birthday party ! We sure did have fun baking didn’t we. Eli and you always had your own mixing bowls and I don’t think we could count the number of times we worked with baking real food or even when we would get creative with play dough !

We have a busy weekend ahead and yet we will surely think of you since so many events at this time of year are connected to memories of All kinds of holiday fun.

I wish for you both to have a great first weekend in the festive month of DECEMBER !

So much fun ahead Please don’t forget as I explained yesterday and have tried to say over and over each day, NANA AND POPPY LOVE YOU BOTH TO THE MOON and BACK, forever and always,

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and Poppy❤️?

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

Holiday preparations …

Nana December 1, 2018 0Comments

Dear Guillianna and Eli-

As the weekend gets going we are preparing for the holidays ! We are so excited for you and all the grandchildren since there is a special feeling around the holiday season. Shopping and getting gifts for friends and family, putting up decorations, holiday music, baking treats, parties and special food we eat only this time of year. The extra effort to spread kindness and gratitude is a great to experience and we can only imagine how exciting it is for your both.

For today- we wanted to say that we hope you will always remember how important it has been to Nana and Poppy to believe in this holiday spirit. To spread good deeds, kindness and love. The magic of Christmas is amazing it makes you feel love even when you may not be here with us – we hope you laugh and sing and dance to extravaganzaglorious “metaphorically speaking “ all season long and beyond. Traditionsay be changing for you as you begin to journey though new ones with mom and dad but the feeling in your heart will live if you try to remember, have dreams and hope, love and show love! It is up to us as a family to try and keep the memories warm for all the people we are with during the holiday season and everyday !

Love you to the moon and back ….

FOREVER AND ALWAYS…

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and Poppy❤️?

This site was originally written when Guillilanna was born. During her parents deployment and training, we would keep Guillianna in the Mitten. Then Elijah was born and he too was a frequent flyer to the Mitten. They lived with us on and off for nine years. Over the last deployment to Korea and during the past three years where in the kids lived with us for three consecutive years, the internet and this site was not really used to communicate with their parents, FACETIME was quick and easy. Their dad recently got out of the Army and they were relocated. We have not seen or talked with Eli or Guillianna for months. Last we saw them on FaceTime was May 2018. Last we held them December 2017, just after Christmas. Yet the reality is THIS IS NOT ABOUT just OUR BROKEN HEARTS- it is about theirs, ours and our entire family! for these kids who are so small and innocent, they have had a major change in thier lives. It is our hope that the journaling of our time together, and the and the new love letters for them will one day allow them to truly know the depth of love we ALL here in the Mitten have for them.

This site is also a special gift for our daughter, it documents all kinds of small details and images for her to keep, love and enjoy! These memories encompass nine and six years of the lives of her children! A true gift, that one day she may actually appreciate and have gratitude for. She doesn’t think of us as her parents at present, but maybe in the future, she will sit and reflect on all these memories, maybe she will see the love and dedication that she herself was given because of our love for her. If not, this journal, can hopefully one day allow Guillianna and Elijah to see and feel the truth, the love, and they will realize the amazing impact they have had on all of us here in the Mitten, and they will feel the love of all those who they spent their lives with, before embarking on the new journey they have begun. Friends, family alike have shared in nearly a decade of thier lives and all wish for the family to be happy. If it is a parents right and philosophy to “cut people out of your life like a kindergartener cuts out paper snowflakes” and raise their children to feel the same, this new set of love letters are written with the hope that in time the innocent will feel the love they HAVE always had, and the love they can ALWAYS carry it with them.

Baking a cake ….

Holiday preparations …

You Missed

Christmas 2023

❤️Happy Birthday Guillianna ❤️

Happy birthday Elijah !

Christmas 2022