A Big Change

I have known this for a while and it actually happened last month, but I have been so busy and wanted to wait until things settled down.

My mom's mom~my grandma who I have hardly seen the past 31 years has moved in to live with my mom and dad.

When she lived in Arizona, I flew out to see her when I was a baby with mom and she has been to Tennessee to visit very few times. When Houston was a baby, her brother that lived with her was sick, so mom, Houston and I flew out to see them. Uncle Bud passed away and she has lived out in the desert in the middle of nowhere (really) the past 3 years alone. Her health has gone downhill and mom talked with me and let me know she would be flying out to help her pack a few things and come stay with her. This is a MAJOR change due to the fact that they have not been around each other in probably 40 years.

When mom was a teenager, her parents divorced and she was forced to drop out of school and live on her own. It was hard, but she got a job, moved and met new friends and made it. My grandma is totally different and has her ways. She smokes, which no one in our family smokes, she has a temper, she is on breathing treatments and does oxygen a few times a day and her health is really going down hill. Mom took her to the doctor and was told some personal things that she would have rather not have heard.

I wanted to ask for prayer from you guys when I was at the beach, because that is when the transition happened, but I wasn't sure if it was the right time. While we were at the beach, they boxed up and mailed home packages and donated the rest of her things to charity or threw out. It was a long hard flight for mom after a week of loading and going through,but they flew in and my sister and her husband went to the airport and picked them up. My dad couldn't because he was out of town on his Wagon Train ride with hundreds of other horse riders in Middle TN. It has been an adjustment, but it seems like she is happy here. It is just really weird that she is actually here though. I mean, she missed our high school and college graduations, weddings, birth of a great grandchild and now.....she just shows up.

Please pray for my mom and for the Lord to give her strength to handle everything that is going on. We stopped by on our way back from the beach to see her and have since visited over there 3 or 4 times. Mom also brought her out to our house to see when I got in town from Nashville. It is kinda nice visiting with her, but at the same time, i just want to say, "Why now grandma?" Please pray for me and my family.

This is her with Houston with Great Grandma when we got back in town last month. He hasn't seen her since he was 2. He will be 6 next month. He remembered her though and seems to be adjusting around her.

Her hair is no longer dyed and she has lost a ton of weight.
This is Houston the 1st time he ever saw great grandma in Arizona at age 2

This is grandma, mom, me and Houston 3 1/2 years ago.

Thanks friends~ Mandy