Milestones!

This past Saturday, Chris and I were home to celebrate my grandma's 80th birthday. We hosted an open house for her and then went out to dinner as a family. We also had a mini-Christmas celebration on Saturday with some gift-giving. 

It was a really great weekend. Achieving 80 years of living is quite an accomplishment, especially now as it seems people younger and younger are moving into assisted living or nursing homes for various reasons.

I am so glad my grandma is still so healthy. She has slowed down considerably and does mix up names now that so many grandchildren and great-grandchildren have been added to her family but she still gardens every summer - producing enough tomatoes to feed a small country! She also has an award-winning lawn full of tress and flowers that is peaceful and relaxing as a backyard retreat. 

Thinking about my grandma reaching 80 years also made me think about my own life. Reaching the ripe old age of 25, I still have a ways to go before hitting 80. But I really want to make it. I guess that means, I need to be making good life choices now to enable that to happen. But I definitely want to see what life will be like 80 years from now! Could be interesting.....