"I miss my Gramb"

In the days leading up to my mom's visit, we would talk a lot about Grammy coming & all the fun things we would do together. One day before my mom's arrival, I was changing Hadley's diaper and asked: "Do you remember who is coming to see us?" Hadley's response was: "my Gramb."  I thought she just misspoke, so I corrected her. To which she said: "No, I call her Gramb." ;) 

At the children's museum with Grammy :)

Playdoh!

Love this picture! We hear "Can you read me a stowey (story)?" countless times each day from Miss Hadley lately.
Grammy was always happy to oblige! They spent a lot of time like this!!

Grammy was typing an email, so Shelby requested to sit next to Shelby with a laptop so she could type an email too.
She said they were the Typing Club! ;)

Today as we watched Grammy walking into the airport with her luggage in tow, Hadley just started to bawl her little head off. At first, I thought she was hurt or had dropped something. I told her to stop crying so she could tell me what was wrong, and in between sobs and trying to catch her breath she managed to get out: "I miss my Gramb!"  We all do.

I say this every single time we say goodbye to my family, but it's still true--it never gets easier. I feel like we get into our routine & rhythm of life away from family, and life is wonderful! Then we get a visit from family--which is amazing--but every time a visitor leaves, it's a harsh reminder of the fact that we don't get to do life with these people on a day-to-day basis and that just hurts my heart. We hope that the day will come when we will live in close proximity to family again, but until then we are immensely grateful for the precious time we do get with them! Thank you, thank you, thank you to my mom for putting her life on hold to spend ten wonderful days with us! And thank you to my dad for sharing her with us!

The primary reason for this trip was for my mom to be here for Shelby's birthday. Despite the fact that we've been hundreds of miles away from home, my mom was there the day Shelby came into this world & she's been there for every single birthday since then. Our girls are so blessed to have her as their Grammy!!!