I want to thank everyone so much for your notes of condolence yesterday. A note was sent to each of you that we have email for and the rest were responded to in the blog. Even though we have not met most of you in person, I still value your friendship and support …it means a lot. We are doing better today. As Russ said this morning, Rusty is better today than he was yesterday. It’s the decision that is so very hard…it’s like playing God and I know that I am NOT GOD!! Yet when I found myself thinking, “I wonder if I can just get him through one more day”…I knew that I was being selfish in my desire to hang on to him. If it is a struggle to get him through the day and he is miserable, why would I continue to do that to him? So although I will miss Rusty for every day that is left to me, I am at peace with the decision and I am beginning to heal…from both his passing and my sister’s. I will be okay.
Summer has FINALLY arrived in western Oregon and with it bright blue skies and wonderfully warm temperatures. Right now it is 86F and that’s getting on the high side of tolerable. So we loaded up the girls (Anna and Bekah) and headed to the park this morning before it got too hot. I think the last time we had them at Skinner Butte Park together was on July 17, 2006. I found a couple of those old pictures and I thought the comparison was pretty amazing. My how things change in 6 years.
Some things never change no matter how old you get.
I don’t think anyone should ever outgrow swings.
Can you think of anything more fun as a child than swinging? One of my favorite poems was (and is) Robert Lewis Stevenson’s “The Swing.”
“How do you like to go up in a swing
Up in the air so blue
Oh I do think it’s the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do”….. there are two more verses and yes, I can still quote them!!
Russ and Poppy found a shady spot to enjoy the goings on. You can see Anna and Bekah on the swings in the background.
Then we drove across the river and walked down to the water. It was such a pleasant day and there were many folks in boats and floats enjoying the river.
The girls got their feet wet but that river is still COLD!! Better to go home and swim in the warm pool.
One more picture comparing the girls six years ago and today.
They sure do grow up fast and they just get sweeter every day…I think the sweet part comes from eating Grandma’s Homemade Strawberry popsicles!!!
Gratuitous moon shot from June 29, 2012…just because I thought it looked neat.
