We recently made a very quick trip back home to Michigan.  This was planned before we left Michigan in the early fall.  Because our time home was scheduled to be short, we drove straight through.  Nine to ten hours of straight through driving is not my cup of tea.  Still, we wanted to make use of the short time we were home, so we did it.

The main reason we went home was to support our grandson, Mitchell.  He played the lead role of Aladdin in Comstock Community Theater’s production of Aladdin, Jr.  He was wonderful as Aladdin.  He has grown up so much in these last couple years.  God has given him a talent that he is using.  You can’t get better than that.  We are proud of you Mitchell.  Keep honing your skills.

 

While home we were able to run some errands and  have lunch with our daughter Cathy, our grandkids Amber and Mitchell, and Kevin.  It was so good to catch up with all of them.  On Sunday we worshiped in our home church and then took our grandson, Harrison, out for dinner.  It was great to see how he is adjusting to living on his own.

We will be going  home for the Christmas holidays.  I can’t imagine not celebrating with at least some of our family. I still love those times of opening gifts, eating together, sharing life.

It seems we all get too busy to just enjoy sharing our life with each other. As life passes us by, we need to stop, overlook all the flaws we see in each other, and just enjoy the time, the moments we have with each other. For these days are just a blink of an eye and then they are gone.

JA