Life's challenges and joys

Life offers us many great joys and challenges. This month we welcomed our newest grandson, Michael David! He looks much like his father, except for the color of his hair, he gets that from his mother.

As I was recovering from surgery myself when he was born, we didn't get to see him as soon as we would have liked. This gives us 12 grandchildren (ours, 9, and 3 pre-assembled [step] ones). They range up in age to 19.

Our oldest granddaughter is in college taking nursing, and our oldest grandson is graduating from high school this month. He plans to pursue an architectural career. As he is currently first in state in wrestling, we expect he will be offered several scholarships. We're proud of all of our grandchildren.