Home Visits

Went home to Southern Illinois couple weeks ago for a family visit.  Stayed with my sister and her husband on their farm outside Anna, IL for a few days.  Had lots of time for visiting and catching up on family stuff including getting to know my new nephew-in-law, Tim Nance.  He and Susan and her daughter Nicole are pictured at left.  They are expecting their first child in March and all are super excited about it.  Current plans are for them to come out to AZ for a visit with my sister Carole end of March, but I think that will be a little too soon to travel with a newborn.  So, we'll see what happens.

It's always good to see family again.  My generation is now the oldest one, and that's a sad thing to realize.  Often I wonder about some event or person in our family's past only to realize that there is no one to ask for information.  Wish we could have been smarter sooner and asked those questions when our parents were still with us.  Now that time has passed and we'll never know what we have lost to the passage of time.

Got the flowers changed at the cemetery.  In doing so, relived in brief those times of sadness and loss.  In some ways it seems like it hasn't been long at all since our parents died.  It's hard to realize it's been 13 years for Daddy and 11 years for Mother.

All in all, it was a good visit.