It is morning here on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and I am looking out my daughter's front window at the bay which is just past the swaying palm trees in her front yard. I have been given a gift of a weeklong visit to help her out before the baby arrives (her husband is away on a short term mission, but will be back for the baby's arrival!) - and I can't believe this is really real!!! 
Just down the little road out in front of their place is the Navy Lodge and a beautiful park with many more swaying palm trees waiting for the rain-sun-mist-shine 85 degree day to get underway! My USMC Lt. (soon to be Captain) DD left for work about an hour ago - and I will have dinner ready for her and my granddaughter-to-be (my first grandchild!) when she gets back home this evening.
It was eight years and about 3 weeks ago that we watched as she, a sweet-tough-dedicated 18 year old girl, marched off into her military future on I-Day in front of Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis - and never, ever in a million years would I have imagined THIS back then...AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS...ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT A DOUBT AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL!!! As a parent, I am humbled and in awe of these fine, fine young people serving and protecting all of us!!!
Just down the little road out in front of their place is the Navy Lodge and a beautiful park with many more swaying palm trees waiting for the rain-sun-mist-shine 85 degree day to get underway! My USMC Lt. (soon to be Captain) DD left for work about an hour ago - and I will have dinner ready for her and my granddaughter-to-be (my first grandchild!) when she gets back home this evening.
It was eight years and about 3 weeks ago that we watched as she, a sweet-tough-dedicated 18 year old girl, marched off into her military future on I-Day in front of Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis - and never, ever in a million years would I have imagined THIS back then...AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS...ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT A DOUBT AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL!!! As a parent, I am humbled and in awe of these fine, fine young people serving and protecting all of us!!!
