Another year is nearly over 2023..........And we are reflecting on a few things that happened in our lives.
On 27 November coming, we will be celebrating 52 years of marriage. That day in 1971 we had quite a terrible hailstorm - for what it's worth. We owned a 1968 Chrysler Baracuda for which we paid R1800.00 or R68.00 monthly. We went on honeymoon to Amanzimtoti for 7 days staying in "Happy Days" holiday flats.
I was the eldest of a family of 12 children, 5 from the same father and mother, 6 from the same father but a different mother and one was the second mother's son when she married our Father. We all grew up as one happy family in different time zones. The youngest of the 12 was born after my own first child. The third eldest (a daughter has since passed on)
On 14 October 1972, our first son was born - Two more children, another son 5 years later and a daughter another 5 years later make up the initial family. Today the family consists of 3 children, 9 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.......all in good health and prospering......
We have a saying we live by: "Growing old gracefully".
We live in a Retirement home in the Featherbrooke Hills Retirement Village on the northern slopes of the Roodekrans Ridge in Krugersdorp.............
As life goes our family is growing. We now have 1 great grand daughter who is going on 2 years old.
As life goes on the challenges are also growing. The one that takes up a good deal of our thinking nowadays is the grandchildren that are now starting to leave school and will be entering the adult world and part of that is looking after themselves. When we were young this meant looking for a job and all of us, most of my brothers and sisters and my children succeeded in getting an income via formal employment.
This, of course is not so easy anymore - one of the challenges is the setup of the present South Africa and the challenges the present government has brought about the term "BEE" and the challenges that place on our grandchildren.
And we, as the previous generations has to look out for them. For that purpose I have started an initiative I call "The Grandparents Legacy" You can follow this here : https://centrepreneurs.blogspot.com/
(to be continued - 5 July 2024)
