Happy Birthday Uncle Jerry

Everybody wish Uncle Jerry a very Happy Birthday!!

With Love

Happy birthday Laura!

Thanks and Praise

We are now safely back home in Maryland, missing you all. We are also missing the glorious weather we experienced in Georgia. It's a bit chilly here and we're expecting an even colder turn any day now.
The reunion went better than I ever hoped it would. I loved seeing those of you I've known all of my life, and meeting those of you who are new to me. What an incredible family we have!

Thank you to each and every one who were able to make it to the reunion. I hope that someday we'll have an even bigger reunion with more family members in attendance. Thank you all for helping to watch over Joseph, allowing me some rest. It helped immensely. Dad, thank you so much for coordinating the Tybee shuttle. I cannot imagine us trying to caravan all over Savannah in separate cars - the shuttle was a great idea. Thank you to William for settling Margaret's affairs and for lugging all of those boxes to Tybee. To all the cooks and cook's helpers, thank you for preparing the many superb meals we enjoyed and thanks to all of the grocery shoppers and cleanup helpers too. HUGE thanks to Laura for taking on the task of rounding us all up, getting us in line and accomplishing this reunion. Thank you for keeping our family history alive and for organizing it. You are an amazing woman! I love the DVD you presented and hope that you will send me a copy. We had such a long drive ahead, we left in a bit of a hurry.
I'm sorry that I missed saying my goodbyes to some of you. Gosh, I hope to be able to get to know you better in the future. We barely had a chance to talk. I will try to get my pictures online this week. You will be able to look at them via the album located on my blog. Well, I'm sure there's a lot more I should be saying, but you've all met Joe. Back to motherhood.

Start Your Engines

We leave for Tybee tomorrow. Have you checked out the weather forecast? It is off the hook! Sunny every day and 70's-80's.

Lee's back up on the net

Hi y'all,

Finally, I managed to find my info so I could log on to EwingUniverse, which is, like our family, way cool. Dottie and I are excited about the prospect of seeing you at Tybee. Thanks to Jerry for getting things started and to Laura for all her hard work in actually making it happen.

We're leaving Thursday morning, so we should be at Tybee sometime in mid to late afternoon.
Love to all,

Lee

Tomorrow

October 5. I went and got my journal from last year to check my memory, but I was right. I have Margaret's name written on the front of that journal to distinguish it from all the inferior journals. The day's been looming like a tidal wave I calmly ignore until I won't be able to any more. But I will be comforted knowing we're all still together in her memory and soon we really will be all together.

I don't think we can really ignore the somewhat bittersweet time right now. All of our hearts are with the Trotochauds and Pates right now and I know we all have our arms around Donna, too. Who knows what else is going on, but in another way it's kind of perfect timing since most of us will be there with our usual support, not to mention idiotic fun and merriment here and there. Okay mostly fun and merriment...and interesting history. Too bad Tara has to hold down the fort at home, but it sure is for a good reason.

Well, I haven't felt much like lighting candles lately, but tomorrow I'll be lighting several candles for ALL of you. The light of my life.