[Oe List ...] No one is going to believe this . . .

Thu Nov 8 22:17:45 PST 2012

I moved back to Iowa to be with my dad.  Even though I was 65 on my last 
birthday, he still occasionally refers to me as his little girl, or his only 
girl, always as his daughter.  I still get angry with him when he treats me 
as if I were less than ten.  (Try to stop that!)  Then again, I call on him 
when I have a job to do that I am not sure how to accomplish well without 
his advice.  He will be 94 next birthday.  I am incredibly fortunate to have 
the father I have and that he is still living.  My step-mother is only a 
year younger.  One thing I know they would say to your question (after far 
too many years spent working with Heifer International) is that unless you 
are a goat, you have no kids.
    My father will always be my father and I will always be his daughter. 
It is one of the great gifts of grace that relationship outweighs all tests 
of time.  Rejoice in the blessing.
Love to all of you, Margaret


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wiegel" <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Oe List ...] No one is going to believe this . . .


> Our sons, the Wiegel twins, Dhondiram and Shanker, turn 35 today . . .
>
> I will pass on any wishes, stories, wisdom on life phases, etc.
>
> Also any wisdom on how to stop imagining my kids as kids, since they 
> aren't kids any longer . . .
>
> Jim Wiegel
> Jfwiegel at yahoo.com
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