The Granny Warrior Project is something I wanted to do about 5 years ago. I intended to share our lives as grandparent's raising grandchildren and the difficulties and struggles, we have all faced and endured. After I shared a lot of my story with my good friend Ann, she began calling me a warrior. 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 who were going through similar battles, but my husband Brian always discouraged against me sharing our lives with the public.
So why now?
I've decided to begin sharing now because this past February my life changed and I'm facing my toughest battle yet and I' 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 was the lung cancer that took Brian from me 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, you will see that my strength has always come from God and I'm hoping to honor Him 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.
My story is being shared to help others so please feel free to comment or ask questions.
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