Being a parent is the biggest responsibility we can have. In many ways we enter in to parenthood ill prepared. For answers we look back on how our own parents did things, or hope we can find the answers in a book Some of it we make up as we go and wonder why they did not teach us about parenting in school. Most of us became parents when we were struggling with a career, a mortgage, trying to maintain a house and dealing with community issues. It is a 24/7 job and in many ways stays with us our entire life, even when our children leave home. Once a parent, always a parent and the more we invest when they are young the dividends increase as we age.
This picture taken in 1982 or 83 in our Hunter Creek house, south of Gold Beach when Jason must have been 7 and Amy 5
As ill-prepared as we thought we were, the light love shines through. Your children and grandchildren love and cherish you. Shine on!
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