Piera Wearing the Bracelet (With Luke)

I remember taking two steps at a time down those beautiful oak stairs with Jeannie at my side.  The phone was ringing and Jeannie answered.  She had a new baby brother.  Danny had been born.  What a gift to share that moment with Jean.  Gram was knitting yet another pair of mittens and smoking a cigarette (how did she do that?) watching us while Patsy delivered Danny.   As I hold my 3 week old grandson Luke I realized I am a link in the chain, a charm in the row of mothers and grandmothers who care for their family.  We all have such warm memories of Gram caring for us.  It only reminds me how much it is my call, my love, my work, my vocation, to be there for my grandchildren as much as Gram was there for me, for all of us.  Thanks Gram for showing me the way.