Thankful Series: Day 27 (+Giveaway)
All this month I will be watching on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and my new subscribers for my monthly-0r-so newsletter. If you tag me @JulieArduini and tell me you’re #thankful or #juliearduinithankful, I’ll enter your name to win a copy of my fiction books. This includes Entrusted, Entangled, Engaged, You’re Beautiful and the boxed set of A Christmas to Remember (only available as eBook.)
If you live in the United States, you have the choice, if you are the one winner randomly chosen, of print (except A Christmas to Remember,) or eBook. If you are outside of the US, it is automatically eBook.
I’ll add your name once a day for each shout out I receive (Facebook,Twitter, Instagram, plus one total entry if you are a new subscriber to my newsletter.) You may or may not receive confirmation from me for those entries, and my random draw is final. If winner doesn’t respond after 30 days, I will choose another. I’m thankful for you.
A couple days ago I blogged about how I never pictured growing up that I would be a mom. When you think maternal, I get my name doesn’t come to mind. That said, I’m not about to be the movie of the week on Lifetime or Oxygen either. But God blew my mind as He not only gifted me with a husband, but two children who are fantastic spouses and parents in their own right.
Our second child is an adult that I will forever remember on the eve of the wedding as a ten year old rolling down the hotel hall, pretending he was a spy. He wore his heart on his sleeve and took our hearts with him every time they returned home after a visit. What never ceases to amaze me is he can live 800 miles away and not see his dad every day, yet carry the look and mannerisms as if he and his dad were together every day. They are so alike.
Like his sister, he’s a fantastic sibling. I have never noticed any of our kids define the others as a half sibling or by which marriage they came from. They are all so good to each other, and I especially love watching the brothers interact. Now that the third child is college age, the older two have another adult to chat with. It also means there’s another Arduini male with the same look and mannerisms. For the Arduini females, we find it pretty hilarious.
Like his sister, our second child has a wife heaven sent. She’s everything you could ask for and now they are parents. It’s fun watching him as I remember all the things that made us worry or nervous when he was younger, now he wisely dots on his son the same way.
He works hard to provide and better himself, and we’re so proud of him for that.
We might not live close by or see them as much as we wish we could, but life with him in it? It’s amazing.
