A Gift From Grandma

Today marks the 4th anniversary of the passing of Ryder’s Grandma.  She was a beautiful woman, inside and out.  No words can express how deeply she is missed, so I won’t even attempt to write about that.  What I will say is that if I could have just one wish, it would be that Ryder could have met his Grandma and felt the overabundance of love that she would have had for him.  One day…

Until then, her name will live on in our hearts, our home, and our lives.  Ryder will know about his Grandma.  Yesterday we brought him to visit for the first time:

 Ryder’s Grandma passed away August 3rd, 2005.  In October of 2005 a delivery was made to her mothers house (Ryder’s Memew), it was a wooden rocking horse that she had purchased from the Iowa Prison Industries when she was in Iowa on travel for work months before she passed away.  Ryder’s Grandma must have purchased the horse because she thought the kids would enjoy playing with it.  All of these years Memew held onto the horse, and then Sunday after Church she gave it to Ryder to take home.  A gift from his Grandma!