We just passed 48 and fully intend to make the 50 together. We also decided jokingly that we would die together so that neither of us would have to go on alone. Of course, we have not real control on that. It is hard for me imagine living alone without her. Both of our children and said repeatedly that if one us were to die the other could live with them. We love our children, but neither of us want to live them. I hope that we never have to...
I loved my two children growing up in our home. I used to play with them like a little kid. I did the same thing with my grandchildren, but the youngest of them is now in college. I tried getting down on the floor to play with my great grandson but needed help getting up again. I had to stop that. Now, visits are seldom. They have their own lives and the lockdowns limit them. Really we wouldn't want them too often or too long, but now is usually less than that.
The memories remain. I have always taken pictures and now I have thousands of them in this computer and a duplicate set on another computers. Once in a while I will put on a little slideshow to bring to the fore some of those wonderful times we had.
My wife does that. When we moved to this our probably final place of residence in this world she had them mail us the local newspaper from the old town for a few years, but that paper subsequently died due to the Internet probably. She still gets the local newspaper in our new town of residence but with the onset of this Covid-19 thing they used it as an excuse to reduce their 6 days a week daily personally delivered papers to a 3 day a week delivered by the U.S. mail. She has learned to check the obituaries via the Internet and when she finds someone we knew she refers it me so I can add it to my obituary collection. Oh the memories as Bob Hope said or sang...Instead of checking the news each day, I start off checking the local obituaries.
Without a doubt that. Give God the glory!
