Unbreakable Bond

The emotional conclusion to the Reid, Smith, and Parker families.

I was a mom, a grandma, and a great-grandma to the most amazing people in the world. Of course I was biased. They were mine, and I loved every single one of them.

I'd started out with one daughter, and it broke my heart the day I watched her walk away from the one man I knew she was meant to be with. She went on to have a beautiful little boy with a complete loser, and just when I began to think she would never find the happiness she truly deserved, she found it, in the very same man she'd left all those years before. I knew they belonged together.

From there my family began to grow. Her mouthy best friend fell for a bossy ballplayer, and they both became mine. Then kids began to come, and before I knew it, they were finding a love of their own, some of them in places I never expected, like really never saw it coming, but I wouldn't tell them that. Those kids went on to have kids of their own, and there I was, a great-grandmother to fourteen wonderful children.

If they would have told me, as I looked down at my baby girl for the first time, that she would go on to bring so many amazing people into my life, I wouldn't have believed them, but she had, and I was greatful for every single, crazy one of them.

They were mine.

They were strong.

They were unbreakable.

At least I hoped they were.