Welcome to The Granny Warrior Project
The Granny Warrior Project is a dedicated platform that honors the resilience, strength, and wisdom of grandparents who are raising grandchildren. My mission is to provide a safe space where we can share experiences, connect with others, and find valuable resources to enhance our daily lives. I believe that age is just a number and that everyone has a story worth telling. Through my story, I aim to uplift, empower, and inspire you through your own personal journey.
Where Do I Begin?
I wanted to start "The Granny Warrior Project" about 5 years ago. It was going to be a blog and/or podcast where I share with the world what life, as grandparent's raising grandchildren, is really like. I believe it is important for our children to understand the struggles, challenges, joys, and benefits that grandparent's raising grandchildren experience. After sharing much of my story with my good friend Ann, she began calling me a warrior and this is where the name "Granny Warrior" came from. I never considered myself a warrior but after talking through many life experiences and situations with Ann, I began to realize only a warrior would be able to endure and overcome the battles I have faced in my life. I wanted to share those experiences with other grandparents (and their children) who were and are going through similar battles. I thought about my blog often, but I never started it because my husband Brian always discouraged against sharing our lives with the public.
Why Now?
This past February my life drastically changed once again and I'm facing my toughest battle yet. I'm hoping that by sharing my story it will somehow help me get through. Brian and I went through everything together. We held each other up in our times of weakness and together, for 35 1/2 years, we overcame every battle we faced, but there was one battle we could not overcome, and that battle was the lung cancer that took Brian from me/us on February 23,2024.
It's been almost nine months since Brian passed away. I'm in a better place ... a place where I think I am strong enough to share my life story about the darkest and most difficult days of my life. I'm hoping that by sharing, that whoever reads this will have an understanding of what it is really like to experience losing that one person you know you can't live without and what it's like living without them.
My love for Brian was deeper than I could ever put into words, and he loved me just as deeply. If you knew us, you've witnessed the love we had for each other, but the thing I've realized the most, since Brian has been gone, is that I am not the true warrior, God is. I hope that by sharing my stories; past, present, and future, you will see that my strength has always come from God and I'm hoping to honor God by showing how He is always with us providing our strength, giving us peace and blessings, and never letting go of our hand, even when we choose to let go of His.
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I am a friend of your daughter, Christina. Idk how I stumbled upon this blog but I love it! My mom is 65 raising my 8 and 15 year old nephews after my sister died in 2016.
I support you 100%