Grandparents Once Again

As most of you know we're the proud grandparents of Juliet Elizabeth Cooksey, now 7 months old, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Over the past two weeks we have become the proud grandparents of Javier Benavides, a 16 year old boy, who is being adopted by our other son, Chris, and his wife, Tracy, who live in Mount Vernon, Ohio.


Chris and Tracy have been married for almost 15 years and, from the beginning, we knew they did not want to have any children of their own. They have always talked of adopting an older child and, in the past year and a half of working with the system in Ohio, it is becoming a reality. They have legal custody of Javier now and in six months the adoption will be legal. Both Chris and Tracy have extensive experience in working with teenagers so they're well prepared for this.

We will meet Javier for the first time in July when we go to the mid-West to visit with family. We'll spend about four days with them in Mount Vernon.

We're very excited and happy for all three of them and consider this one more blessing in our lives.

If your birthday is May 25 you share your day with: Frank Oz (one of the Muppet guys), Tom T. Hall (country singer), Beverly Sills, (opera singer), Miles Davis (jazz musician), and Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet).

(PS: Betty and I are heading for Pagosa Springs, Colorado tomorrow morning for a 3 night get away and reconnect time for us. We'll return on Thursday evening. I'm taking my laptop and, if I can get a wireless connection, I'll continue making posts. If not, I'll be back on by next Friday at the latest. I hope you'll check back in when we're on line again.)