Oh how richly blessed am I. Tomorrow my baby graduates. My last little girl will walk across the stage and graduate high school and we will will both enter a new phase in our lives.
I have been raising kids all my adult life. I have graduated 4 out 5 children, number 5 of 6 will graduate tomorrow. I haven't cried until now. Not once have I found this sad and today I am tears. I still don't really think they are sad tears. I am so richly blessed. I have had to go without so much and so have my kids. They come from a broken home and yet a lot of people don't know that. They don't know my husband and I aren't the biological parents of all these children. I am so richly blessed. I wasn't able to give them the home I wanted to. I made some poor choices as a young adult. The love that flows out of this family fills my heart to overflowing. Brandi's accomplishments are ours. We cry together, we love together, we have all worked for this together. We aren't separate. We are one. We have many branches, but we are one. I wish I could find the words to explain the love I feel.
We created a family where there was none. So many wished to see us fail. I have a mother and father-in-law that have never accepted or acknowledged my children in 14 years. I feel sorry for them. We drop everything, EVERYTHING when one of our own is in need. My children take care of me. This breaks my heart and makes me proud all at the same time. I wish it was something they didn't have to do or see. Their strength amazes me. This is love, undying, unending love. My husband and I have been able to show them that you can love through anything. Sometimes, your family is not nourishing. It is sad. I ache for my husband sometimes because of it. I cherish my family.
I come from a family of love, my parents taught me that. I am so thankful for them. I am thankful to God for seeing my need. I am thankful he sent me this wonderful family. I am so richly blessed. I don't have much, but I don't need much. I have my family and it really IS everything.
