LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIJAH❤️

Nana September 21, 2024 0Comments

Long ago – but so nice to reminisce – So much laughter, so much fun so many smiles so many great memories for us! a huge Thank you to your parents for having a son whose celebrating a very – happy BIRTH day! So grateful since this guy surly makes the world such a better place !

Happy Birthday Elijah – 2024

Dear Elijah –

Time keeps going by and our wishes for you remain the same. Wishing you all things good. Wishing you and your family happiness always. We wish you to know how loved you are and while memories of us are fading away for you as you grow older for us they remain such a beautiful part of our lives. Your laughter your smile your joy the memories of the early years will always be so treasured. I’ll put a little burst of the photos showing the joy we have inside because of you that you shared with everyone while you lived here. We will always hope you continue to be full of happiness and laughter with your family and friends. That you continue to do great at school and do so many things in life that make you happy. Your mom and dad surely are so very proud of you and always know there are so many of us in the Mitten and other places that love you dearly and are sending great birthday wishes for you ! Make this year- and every year – simply amazing.

We love you- your sister and family to the moon and back – forever and always ….

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and 🍪Poppy ❤️

The best times full of love and smiles beyond measure !

So much love for you today, tomorrow and always! Happy birthday ! ❤️🍪❤️

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

Christmas 2023

Nana December 25, 2023 0Comments

Dear Guillianna and Elijah-

it’s Christmas 2023 and words cannot express how much love we have for you both and all your cousins. We hope you’re always sourrounded by love and happiness that your Christmas dreams will fulfilled. I know that sinceelis favorite player won the World Cup he must have been so happy.

It was so great to see your smiles on your birthdays and hope you enjoyed birthdays and Christmas with your family and friends.

we hope for you ti know that our love is for every and always, is unconditional for you and all our children as well as our parents.

Your great grandparents send so much love to you both and wish for you to have the very best 2023! It’s hard ti believe you’re half way thru another school year and it will be summer before you know it. It’s been so. Old across the country this past week and the Mitten State is not an exception.

We hope you will know that Christmas is a time for love ❤️ for compassion and giving . We love you both and will always keep you in our hearts. It was a great gift to share in your lives and tip make so many memories. Time keeps moving forward and as you grow we hope the spirit of the holiday season will always resonate in your hearts and in the hearts of those we love.

We think of you and send Christmas wishes That last ???❤️ forever and for always !

We love you to the moon and back

XOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and Poppy ?❤️

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

❤️Happy Birthday Guillianna ❤️

Nana December 4, 2023 0Comments

Dear Guillianna –

it’s hard to believe the day is finally here It’s when the special day you came to this world and made it a better place now look at you so grown up and doing great things to make life extra special for everyone in your life and those who were able to share in part of it

Happy Birthday to you Guillianna. It is hard for me to believe how you’ve grown. We are so excited for all that you have done and all that you will do in this life. Your heart and soul were a gift to your mom and dad the day you were born to all of us here in the mitten and since then you’re life has touched so many in such amazingly good ways.

This photo is from our FaceTime call on your birthday last year. I love this smile. You were so happy and that makes Nana and Poppy so happy.

You will be eighteen before you know it and that is just amazing to me. I will not ever forget the day you were born and how happy it made your mom and dad. We flew in to see you the day you arrived and since that time our wishes for you and your mom are the same. Wishing you good health happiness and a world of love all around you. I hope you and Eli have fun celebrating your birthday with mom and dad.

Always know your are loved forever. And we will always be hoping and praying that both of you have happiness beyond measure. Love all around you and that you know all the family here in Michigan loves you both very much.

Before you know it you’ll be a senior in high school. Then college bound. We can’t wait to see the wonderful things you do in this life. To hear all about your dreams and to see them all coming true. Sending love to you and all your family. Never forget you’re loved to the moon and back. Forever and for always,

xoxoxox

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Nana❤️ and Poppy ?

Despite distance and time. You are in the hearts of all the family in the mitten. Every day. Every night we all wish for you and Eli. All the best. To do great in school. To plan for an amazing future and know that our love is forever. It is and always has been unconditional. For mom. For her dreams and for the family she loves. One day you will see all things lead to you – mom dad and Elijah finding peace and happiness in all you do. And we are forever cheering you on and cannot wait for the next chance to hug you and hear all about the dreams in you heart. And the those of Elijah too. Until that day I hope you will always remember that love is forever and we will always be so grateful to have been such a huge part of yours and Eli’s life for so many years. Your like shooting stars that will brightly shine and and illuminate an even brighter future than anyone can imagine.

WE LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH WE HOPE THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY ARE AMAZING!

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

Happy birthday Elijah !

Nana September 21, 2023 0Comments

It is so hard to believe another birthday is here and we truly just want you to know –

We wish this day to be full of love. To have happiness and fun. To know that you are an amazing grandson.

We have so many good memories with you and your sister that we treasure and we will always look forward to a day where we can see you again. To hear all about everything in your life and your sisters. To see you and hear that laughter and enjoy that great smile again.

Hopeful the birthday will be fun and and all the love around you – good health and happiness today carry you thru the entire year!

We LOVE YOU FOREVER AND ALWAYS ….

to the moon and back ….

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and Poppy ❤️

and Great Grandma Sally too !

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.

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