One sis has 6 kids and they moved to New Mexico a couple of years ago...other than one trip back home I have not seen them since but we talk on the phone. I miss them like crazy!
The other sis has 4 ranging in age from 17 to 2. I see them as much as I can but that is not often with school and sports activities...they are pretty booked up.
My other sis has a 21-year old so I rarely see him. I have a pic of him when he was maybe 6 months old sitting in a bucket with a rubber duck and a wash cloth and soap...and of course he is naked as he can be....and it is a huge print. Sis gave me the biggest one and he hates it! Places it face down whenever he does come over.
But I don’t care....I have wiped their faces and their behinds and toted them hither and yon and loved it all and want to remember those times. Also, have one of those photo strips that you get taken in those booths of me and the same nephew tucked in my bible. I have been praying and beseeching the Lord on behalf of every one of these kids since before they were born.
I would love to see a lot more of all of them but families disperse and go their way as the kids get older. But I don’t mind so much as I know we will all be together one day with the Lord in heaven. I pray for the circle (of my family) to be unbroken. Do you know the hymn?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Circle_Be_Unbroken%3F
There are loved ones in the glory[1]
Whose dear forms you often miss.
When you close your earthly story,
Will you join them in their bliss?
CHORUS:
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Is a better home awaiting
In the sky, in the sky?
In the joyous days of childhood
Oft they told of wondrous love
Pointed to the dying Saviour;
Now they dwell with Him above.
(Chorus)
You remember songs of heaven
Which you sang with childish voice.
Do you love the hymns they taught you,
Or are songs of earth your choice?
(Chorus)
You can picture happy gath’rings
Round the fireside long ago,
And you think of tearful partings
When they left you here below.
(Chorus)
One by one their seats were emptied.
One by one they went away.
Now the family is parted.
Will it be complete one day?