Generations

I am so enjoying this new generation currently having babies!  I am also so grateful I have not had one ounce of sadness that my childbearing years are over.  I miss my babies being young but not the intense level of exhaustion, up all night and full on attention that infants require.  I see that ghostly hollowness in new parents eyes like they can only half focus on life and are counting down the minutes until naptime!  I think it’s a shame that these most precious days of infancy are sometimes left in a fog of confusion.  I am grateful that I took a bazillion pictures, journaled for each of my kids about funny, sentimental moments and did all I could do to capture the moment, even if I bugged doing it.

I have so enjoyed watching young men as new dads.  Of course, Dan is my hero as far as Dads are concerned.  He truly is the reason the Wog kids have made it thus far in their life.  The infant days would have sent me over the edge or definitely sent me screaming into the night but Dan was ever-patient, walking the babies in the night, sleeping in a chair with the baby on his chest. Whatever it took to let me sleep so I could survive the day of constant demands with the babies.  I have so much compassion on new parents because it is still too fresh in my mind how difficult it is functioning with no sleep.  No one can ever prepare you for it until you walk through it yourself.  It is brutal to say the least, even though you are so happy and in love with your baby.

It’s been an amazing thing to watch a new generation of our family come forth. Especially because it's not me adding to our numbers!! My nephew Britt is so capable and involved with his son Caden’s care, which is no surprise at all.  He loved my Maggie so much and would carry her around when she was a baby!  It was awesome to see four generations in my family for the first time at Thanksgiving!  My Mom and Dad not only have so much fruit in their family as far as numbers but also the spiritual impact that will come through all the many generations is going to be an incredible thing to watch.  They have given our family a strong spiritual foundation to build our lives upon and I am thankful beyond measure.

One of my most favorite pictures that I have seen lately is one of James sporting a Wog Blog T-shirt holding his new baby Cassie!  I could kick myself for not whipping out an infant Wog Blog onesie. What was I thinking??  I must have had a lapse of t-shirt making focus or something.  I just love seeing James as a Dad.  Cassie is in very safe hands.  James has recently been in touch with his violent, protective side of fathering a beautiful girl.  I think Dan and him are starting a Weapons Training Dad’s Club!!  

Baby James

With all the changes that last year brought, I am overwhelmed with gratitude that I am still a part of what God is doing.  I appreciate anew all the long-term relationships we are blessed with.  I love the fact that I held Britt and James when they were infants themselves and now I get to cheer them on as they bring up their outstanding children!  I don’t do New Year’s Resolution but one goal I have is to value true friendships and relationships like never before, to show more mercy and love and to be less negative and judgmental.  At the end of my days, I want to have many people along side of me who can rejoice about all the wonderful things that God has done!  I think it is time we give more honor to all generations and learn from each other!  When I am a grandmother, I want to sit in church with rows of little Wogs being raised to serve the Lord, all the days of their life!  I am committed to stay the course and do whatever it takes to achieve that goal in my life!!  That will be the best legacy I could ever have!  Now if I could only secure a marriage with Cassie and Eddie!  He will need a strong firstborn girl for sure!  Now that would take my blogging to a whole new level!  #thewogblog #generations