My blog was going to be about Bo for the next week, but it is really impossible to focus just on him when there are four people who live around the corner from me that keep my world completely together each and everyday.
This is my little family that makes my world go around. They make my heartbeat and the breath continue to rise and fall in my chest. They are the reason that I get up every morning to see another sunrise and look forward to the sunsets. This is my family.
They allow me the time I need to grieve, they love me, they hug me, they wipe my tears, they hold me up, they carry me and they shelter me from storms. They are my rocks.
They take care of Tac and Ollie when I have to be gone, they clean the pool and help me with basic chores. They just flat out hold me up when I might otherwise fall down and stay there.
Ian calls me with every bit of good and exciting news that comes his way as soon as it happens. The winning score at the baseball game, the selection to New Life Ranch, anything that happens he wants to share with me. Carter Dean says my name in a way that makes my heart melt no matter what he is thinking about doing. There is no other "Tata" sweeter than his.
My family - a daughter that Loves Me To Heaven and Back - her passion in life is her family and she includes me in that mix. A son-in-law that works with me and doesn't mind taking me along as the "old woman" on family outings. A true old style family.
That's what love is all about - bonded tighter because of Bo and D and the loss we shared. Ian and Carter Dean talk about their Uncle Bo, remembering the good and fun times. We share the love of Papaw and keep his memory alive daily.
Truly I say I am blessed because of the love of my family, my beautiful daughter, a son-in-law and two sweet sweet grandsons who know that my life has not been my own since the day I watched them enter this world. Just like with Bo, I loved them before I knew them, they had me at their first heartbeat.
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