The Life of One Young Nana

 This is for all of those mothers who are finding themselves being abandoned by their newly grown baby birds. Those of us who catch ourselves wondering around our homes at 4 am, after the husband has gotten up to go hunting in the wee hours of a cold December morning just days before we navigate a Christmas without yet another one of our offspring. Some of us may still have one more left in the nest that's right on the cusp of flying the coop, just months away from finishing high school and venturing out into the college realm preparing to go life on their own. None of the home economics classes in school could have ever prepared us for this part of parenting. No life less baby doll, or sack of flour, being sent home with us to mimic an infant comes close to this combined feeling of pride and emptiness that we feel. Myself personally watched one that I am so proud to have had a small part in guiding to maturity venture off into that terrifying world of the Marines. Never have I fel...

Some changes this year are so sad and heartbreaking to me. Things that I experienced just last November that seemed like such a simple thing and was so common has been snatched away in the blink of an eye just a year later. While working today I walked by the waiting room of the Labor and Delivery floor where on November 5th of 2019 where family and friends of my 18 year old daughter sat, waiting to see the new little nugget brought into the world. There were grandparents and great grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins from all sides of the nuggets new family so excited to witness this new life.  I am so thankful we were able to experience something so great before it was snatched away by this awful pandemic. So many people are having to experience things that we used to have a whole support system rallying with us, by our sides, in our rooms, now we do them mostly alone. People leaving this world with no one, mothers bringing new life in to the world with out the support systems th...

 I don't know about anybody else, but for me the best part of having kids and grands is the making stuffs with them for the holidays! Today we made adorable little mistletoe canvases with his little feet! For the record I never noticed how much I hate the spelling of mistletoe until today.....

 So, Lets talk about this shit show of year! Pardon my French, but guys it's warranted at this time. So my year started off pretty good: new and first grandbaby born in November of 2019, my job while isn't perfect is still pretty good, at first we were talking about this new crazy virus going on in China, I remember telling my co-workers that there was no way that virus wasn't already in the U.S., fast forward to studies now starting to show that yes, it has been here longer than 2020, plus add in all of this other craziness this year has brought us. I knew going into January 1st 2020 that it would most likely be a bit crazy, history shows election years and those that end in 0 tend to be. I managed to miss my grand baby walking due to dealing with Covid myself after I managed along with my entire immediate family to get it in June after I followed all of the lovely guidelines...our 4th of July was very mundane to say the least, but thanks to God All Mighty we all survived ...

 My Intro: I am a 38 year old mother of two young women and one young US Marine, Gran-nanna to one beautiful little boy, and wife to my best friend and the most amazing man ever! I work in Healthcare helping people get on government Healthcare during a super stressful time in their lives as well as working at Bath and Bodyworks par time. I crochet, read, craft, and clean in my free time...which I don't have much of. I have 3 small dogs and 2 cats that live with me as well as a future son in law...for a total of 5 adults and 1 baby in my newly obtained house that was able to be purchased thanks to managing to catch Covid this year. God is my rock and savior but by no means does that mean I get it right (ever)! I love day to day and try to get it right as best as I can! I can't wait to share my life with everyone on a regular basis!