DAWN: I appreciate your visit this morning. I am so blessed to have a wonderful family.

DIXIE and DICK:  We are so fortunate and blessed to have a family and grandchildren. Happy belated birthday to your grandson. Does he live close to you. I hope someday to get closer to mine. 19 hours is a bit too long to drive in a day.

MICHAEL: Thanks for visiting and leaving me a lovely comment.

ED: You are totally on the mark. my boys are always in my heart ands in my mind. I talk with them frequently and see them on the web cam.Technology is awesome but they haven't figured out how to send and receive actual hugs LOL

Rafael must be precious. When Nolan was born 5 years ago I spent from October 19-November 30th taking care of him because my Daughter-in-law had returned to the hospital after her delivery with complications and those weeks are cherished memories.

SHIRLEY: Isn't that the truth. Not being with them does hurt. Hope you get some time to spend with your granddaughter soon,

GINGER: You are most fortunate and blessed to have your grandchildren close by. Even 4 hours is not so far. When my grandson. Daddy, my son was in college in Pennsylvania at Messiah College his Dad and I would visit  and see him occasionally since it was a 9 hour trip that could be done in a day.

IRENE: I love my webcam that Mark got for me and sent one to his brother in SC so we could see each other  on the computer. My grandsons love it. In fact tonight my Skype was not working and we could not figure how to enable it, they were going to let me see Nolan open his package of presents that I had sent for his birthday. Unfortunately I could not see what was happening but I could hear yjr excitemnt. Vicky said she wished I could see him putting on his new "car" pjs and getting ready for bed.

CARON:  It is special occasions like these that I sure wished we lived closer than 19 hours driving time.

MARILYN: I not only talked to them on their birthdays, but I sang to them as well. My son knows when the phone rings on his birthday at 9:30 am it will be me singing "Happy Birthday. Each year I have made this a tradition of singing to him at the time he was born.

BOB: Thank your all those birthday wishes for my family in SC.  I did not know you had a Sad at Activerain group, I went to the groups and could not find it listed. Is this a new group?

STEVE: When I visit them during their birthdays, would you believe I give them each a separate celebration, cake, ice cream and gifts on each day as a special occasion for them. I certainly missed not doing my annual ritual this year.

TERRY: Thank for visiting tonight. Eventually they will see it when they visit AR. I did tell them I posted their birthday wishes.