Christmas & Back When

This year the extended Fenn Christmas looked a bit different than usual and it wasn't just because some people were missing.  And it was challenging for much of the family.  But sometimes it's the little things that help and this year pictures were one of those little hugs during this sometimes lonely part of transition.  Such a little thing, but sometimes so much.

 (antlers from the farm!)

Something about seeing Great Grandma Madeline and Great Grandpa Edgar Fennimore holding a sweet little baby.  How much it warms my heart to see Grandpa's smile in his mother's face.

Or hearing Uncle Mike ask to keep the picture of him on a horse, because he'd never seen it.  Or seeing Grandpa and his brothers hold their much shorter dad on their shoulders...how many Fenn siblings or cousins pictures have someone mounted on someone else? (answer: many)

Or seeing Grandma and Grandpa so young and full of hopes and dreams and lives yet to be lived.

And still smiling 25 years later...

And 50 years later....

There's something reassuring to not just know, but to see, that Grandpa has always been true to himself.  Always.

And last but not least, to know that these two party animals:

Are responsible for these:

On that note, I'll sign off and leave you with a little song that says it better than I ever could!

Forever Country 💕