Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was nice but it wasn’t near long enough. We went to Michigan to see Mike’s family, both sides live out there. We got in about 3 a.m. on Friday morning after a long drive in and fell asleep immediately. We were so tired.

Friday was busy. I went with Mike’s mom to visit G-ma (her mom, we call her G-ma as a pet name Mike gave her when he was a teenager. She was dancing to his rap music pretending to be a rap artist. He called her G-ma and it stuck.). G-ma is very ill and let us know she was going to the doctor soon for suspected Cancer in her womanly parts. Not sure where, but her blood doctor (she has some form of blood cancer too) recommended she see a gyno-oncologist as soon as possible to get tests done. She’s had an amazing amount of infections lately in her lower GI track so to have this now is very hard for her. She’s just falling apart day by day and fights to live less and less. She’s 83 and at this point is just hoping the journey home to Heaven is quick and painless. We know she doesn’t have much time left so we’re praying she gets her wish.

Nate and G-ma

Nathan was a doll with her. They had a ton of fun playing with her old buttons (funny how random things grandparents have in their closets are the most fun to play with) and sorting them by color and size. It was special for her to spend some time with him and for him too. I don’t know if the chance will ever come up again.

Saturday morning we went to breakfast with the Looman family; Mike’s dad’s family. It was good to see them but after we ate breakfast we left. I think we saw them for all of an hour before it was time to leave.

We went to Fredrick Meijer Garden’s after breakfast with more family (Mike’s mom’s side again). We saw the butterfly exhibit. They had just hatched and it was so cool to have hundreds of different butterflies swarming around us. I wore yellow and even had a few land on me thinking I was a flower. It was cool. Nathan had a blast running around and acting cute. His cousin Emily came (she’s about 15) and watched Nathan most of the time. He called her “my friend” and loved having someone completely devoted to watching him. Such a ham!

Emily and Nathan

Silly Face!

So pretty!

That night, Tanya and Jeff went out with some friends so we just hung out for a nice evening at home. It was nice to just relax.

Sunday we went to breakfast with Mike’s mom’s family. Again, eating and visiting isn’t very easy and the time went by quickly. Mike and I left after about an hour and started our drive home. Lucky for us it only took 7 hours (normally 9 or so) to get home. We did a little picking up but we were ready to get to sleep and start another work week.

I’m happy we went but it makes a long weekend doing a turn around trip like that. It’s good to be home but I wish we had more time to spend with everyone.