"Bent or Broken is the Family Tree": Family

November 11, 2010

Family

So, since finding out that Robby is my Bio Father I have gotten to email with a few other in the family. They are really sweet people and have opened their arms to me and my girls. It's way more that I even thought to ask for and I am so grateful we are being given this chance to get to know each other. I am actually planing a trip to visit for a few days after Christmas and I am hoping for an overnight trip the day after Thanksgiving... I'll keep you posted. But let me show you some of the family:

This is Robby and my little sister Rosa

Rosa is a super sweet girl and I'm really excited to get the chance to be in her life before she is totally grown up! She and Mary are about the same age.. ..

This is Robby's Mom and Dad, my Grandparents

And this is Robyn and her husband. Robyn is Awesome, once I found her and told her who I was and that I might be her sister, she called me that say day! !!! She is so sweet and we have some things in common. She is already planning to take her vacation time to come out here and visit me, hopefully in Jan. 2011. Its so nice to have someone feel the same for you as you do for them and not be scared in anyway. We are sister and that's that, no if ands or buts about it!! Oh and we both want the same tattoo! LOL And this is my Aunt Michelle, her husband and their kids. Hope I get these right.... Madision is the oldest, then Casey, then Bailey and the little guy is Dalton. Michelle emails me and she is a Great Lady and a Wonderful mother. You can tell how giving and loving she is just through they way she talks about her family. I am so happy to have her reaching out to me! And We have More Cousins!!!! Love it! Mickenzie is sooooo happy to have more cousins to play with and grow up knowing, plus I think some of them are into Cheer so she is in heaven.

- Another cousin contacted my , her name is Erica and she has a beautiful little girl named Rylin? I am excited to have Mickenna meet Rylin, they look around the same age.

Needless to say Robby's family has reached out and told me that me and the girls are their family too! I am so impressed and excited about the outcome so far and I am just so Thankful to God for always bringing you what you truly need and always at the time you really need it. I feel so blessed to have more people to love me and the girls, so lucky to have so much!

XOXO,

Renea

Life, Family and Time

This is because I can't be with you everyday- Becasue we all have our on lives to live and Becasue we all need to remember we are bound together. On a journey that may lead us all in different direction only to end at the same place. Besides houses and cars and cloths and jobs and school and work and bills and , and , and ~all we have, all that is really important each other, is Family.

Life really is short~ I have learned that. We really don't have all the time we think we do. It can really come down to now or never.... I have lost 4 Very important people to me in the last 7 years. Some I could deal with better than others, some that were ready and that had lived long lives- others that I still cant belive wont be calling me in the next 5 min to ask if I heard what so and so has done now or if I have finally read that books she said is the steamist bestist book ever...

I just want to live my life knowing I made the effort. I have tried. I reached out and have done what I can consider the best I could do. So that I have no regrets, no only if I's or I could haves'!

I believe in following my own heart, not the worries, fears or opinion of others. I have to do what I believe is best for me, for my heart and my soul.

I don't wana!

I don't want to EVER tell my children, "sorry, I was to scared or rapped up in my own world to reach out to that Auntie or Grama or whom ever, when I had the chance." I don't want to tell them " I'm sorry for my mistake, but they aren't around anymore for US to get to know." because it will be an US not an I. It's not about just our selves, it's about our children. I am here, I am ready and I won't be the one to crush mine and my children’s chance at more people to rely on, more love in their lives, or more family to embraces them.