Oh yeah!

Happy New Year!

I'd apologize for my lengthy absence, but in the past 3 months, my daughter's fiance returned from Iraq, they were married last Saturday and he left for Texas on Wednesday... we also had the holidays - went for the entire ball of wax and celebrated them both instead of hiding in our house with the lights off and doors locked - Christmas and Thanksgiving - the last Thanksgiving that I will spend being angry at my mother because 20 years of being ticked off during Thanksgiving dinner is more than enough... I realize that if she's coming to dinner, I'm gonna be mad at her... so we're going to skip Thanksgiving Day hanging out with mom next year.

What else... oh yeah, my eldest daughter has had some negative developments in her eyesight - she had one blind spot and now has 5. This has been frightening, and she's been to 2 doctors and we are seeing a new specialist on Wednesday. Her husband is a frog... and needs prayer to turn him into a prince.

I was in charge of the Angel Tree at our church - over 60 children received gifts and it was incredibly touching to see the huge pile of presents that needed delivered in my little Honda Civic, with my teething 14 month old grandson riding along on my hip as we went up and down flights of stairs to deliver some of them... My daughter had gone to Texas to escort her fiance back to Pennsylvania and I had the littlest of my grandangels... He decided that the one day I needed him to go to day care he would puke - (teething, mind you - not illness) and they would call and say - pick him up within the hour!!!!

And I facilitated a Beth Moore study of Daniel - which was very enlightening. Especially since I didn't really want to do the Daniel study - thought it would be boring... I wanted to do something else, but the other facilitator (who led the daytime group) picked Daniel. I hate it when I think I know best and then find out I didn't. It's survivable when I don't go on and on to my mom about how I think this other study would be better and pout because Susie (her name has been changed to prevent someone from recognizing me in all my embarrassment) committed us to do THIS one! Of course, that would be some other time that it would be survivable because this time... I did all that.