Family Picture

My daughter-in-law, Diane, decided that we should have a family picture. We don't know why we didn't do this while we were all together at Thanksgiving. We set a time to do this on Sunday evening, but life happened and we let the opportunity get away. Diane was determined, though, and we all got together on Thursday night at daughter Jill's house and piled onto her sofa while son-in-law Nick set the timer.

Me, with my girls here.

It is always hard to get a good shot of this many people. Diane and I thought a pyramid would be fun, but the rest wouldn't go along with us ............. I did offer to be on top, maybe that had something to do with it. From the left is Gage, Maya, me, Gavin, Adrienne, Jeff, Zara, Diane, Jada, Jill, Layla and Nick. Grampa Drew and Makenzie are missing.

I had a sleep over with Layla on my last night. At 10, she is wise beyond her years. We sat and talked about school and friends and girl scouts while I mended a blanket for my sweet son-in-law. Then we grabbed some micro-phones and she sang while I tortured some songs. It was our night and her mom and dad made themselves scarce. Big brother Gage was at work. Layla, being a sweet and gentle spirit, could see how tired her old Gramma was, so we tucked in bed before 9 and she read me to sleep! I do love that child! She had to be up early to sell girl scout cookies and I had a plane to catch ............