Today Mackenzie is 9 years old!  I can’t believe she is 9 already!  She came to live with me when she was almost 3 and that seems like it was yesterday!  I look at all my granddaughters and I can not believe how time flies by.  My own children are adults and it is so amazing to see them making lives for themselves.  Four kids with 4 different lives, issues, happiness and despair.  I did the best I knew how to do raising them and some days I wish I had another chance to change some of it.  Now raising my oldest granddaughter I have been making totally different decisions on raising her.  Things are so different for me with her.  I have her Dad, my son, in despair most of the time, not knowing how he will find his way to adulthood the way he should of already done.  Will he ever be a responsible grown-up able to take care of himself and his beautiful daughter?  Will her drug addicted mother ever break free from her own horrors of drug addiction?  I look at this little nine year old gorgeous girl and just wonder what lies ahead for the both of us.  Some days, I wonder if I can handle it all, raising a child again after having raised my own 4 already, then I look at that happy little face with those big blueberry eyes and I know that we will be just fine with whatever comes our way.  Happy Birthday my first born granddaughter, life is just beginning for you and I know it will be something special, just like you!  I love you so very much.

Well, since my last post a lot of things have happen around here! First of all we added a new member to the family, and she is the cutest little girl!  Her name is Sophie, which was changed from Beatrice as no one liked my choice, sorry Grandma!  She is just 4 months old!  She has been really good as puppies go.  She sleeps in her crate all night without a peep and doesn’t use it for a toilet which is the best! 

We celebrated Michael’s birthday Saturday the 22nd by going to eat lunch at a restaurant that gives the birthday boy a free lunch and a sweet chocolate pudding with crushed cookie’s and whipped cream.  As you can see, he enjoyed every bite and is still such a child!  I guess that’s why I love him so much!! 

We also had a baby shower to go to, but we just couldn’t fit it in because we also had a wedding to go to. One of my daughters best friends wedding,  Christine was the most beautiful Bride with her Prince Charming husband Jeff.   We had a great time at the wedding dancing and hanging out!

Earlier in the week Mackenzie and I had eye appointments.  Oh those were not so good.  I had laser eye surgery about 8-9 years ago so I could stop wearing my glasses, which was truly a wonderful experience.  Not needing contacts or glasses has been wonderful.  I had to get glasses when I was in 3rd grade and was pretty blind, so getting the laser surgery was great, but like anything else it doesn’t last forever,  so I am now in need of reading glasses and distance glasses.  I opted to get 2 pairs as I didn’t want to get used to using bifocals!  Poor Mackenzie also has to have glasses!  She has not only gotten our front teeth, that’s another post someday, but she has also inherited our bad eyes!  So poor girl is going in 3rd grade and has to wear glasses so she can see the board!  Well, this has been a busy week and will just get worse as the days go by with school starting soon and my mother coming to visit.  Hope your summers end is going great and you are making lots of fun memories.