I found this picture of my dad (Grandpa Milo) and I while looking for a sibling picture of Kelly and Christian for Kelly to post on Instagram for National Siblings day. I like it a lot. The picture was taken on Grandma Sarah’s 77th birthday on one the last of our several trips as a family to Puerto Vallarta in January of 2008. It is hard to believe that is over 12 years in the past. It is good to remember how fortunate it was to have had a father and mother who truly loved us and did all that was in their power to help us their entire life.

In thinking about the current China virus crisis, it made me consider some of the things Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah had to endure in their lifetimes. Just a few of them are the great depression, World War II, polio, the 9/11 bombing, the Cold War, and personal crises that like Grandma Sarah’s almost fatal car wreck and the crib death of their daughter and my little sister, Amy Louise. I am just so grateful for the both of them and cannot wait to see them again in the not too distant future.