Enssle Family

Happy Mama’s Day!

Dear Mama,

I love you so much!

Thank you for your smile and for all the hugs and especially the snuggles. Thank you for reading me books and playing games, for taking me on adventures, and even for the tickles. Thank you for letting me eat yogurt and cookies and beets and green beans. Thank you for helping me wake up when I’ve had a bad dream, and for coming and sleeping in my room when I’m not feeling well.

Thank you for spending so much time with me. I love being around you so much! Thank you for teaching me to do things with my left — I know that’s important even if it makes me frustrated sometimes. Thank you for your confidence in me, and for teaching me how to be big and good.

I hope someday I can be as big and good as you.

I love you Mama.

Anna Rose

Add comment May 11th, 2008

Goodbye Grandma Winnie

We just learned that Tara’s grandmother passed away earlier today. Anna Winifred Hess (our daughter Anna Rose was named after this great lady) would have been 92 in June. She passed very quickly and without any pain.

We were looking forward to a planned trip out to Kansas at the end of May to help her celebrate her birthday with her family — including her four grandchildren and five great-grandkids. I’m sure she would have loved to watch all the grand- and great-grandkids play together.

It’s too early for plans for a memorial service, but there’s a strong likelihood we’ll be heading home to Kansas at some point in the next week or so.

We love you and miss you terribly, grandma.

1 comment May 7th, 2008