I have a blog??????

It's summer so I finally have a chance to breathe. I also have a few minutes to play on the puter.... only to find my long lost blog site that I was going to so diligently post updates for family and friends. {shrugs sheepishly}

I seem to have jumped in without looking to see how deep the water was. I am currently involved with Christian Woman's Job Corp. The Big Spring chapter is called Spring of Siloam. The idea behind CWJC is to give local women a hands up to a better life - whether it be a better job, different skills, a friend, AND/or God. We have been given a facility but it is in need of desperate repair.

I was also just at GA camp (Girls in Action - a Christian girls mission study). Fourteen 1st - 6th graders for 4 days in the west Texas heat. Fun. Really it was! As long as I had my afternoon nap life was good!

Stacy has RA camp (same idea just geared for boys) in a couple of weeks. He has been working 7am - 9pm every day so I am trying to help him out.

Then there is Vacation Bible Study in a a week, which for some strange reason I volunteered to head up meals. I know, I know.

Life is fun... and very busy!

moving van

So I drove the moving van to mom's house. The good news.... Stacy is going to drive it to Tx. It was a bear to drive and I knew the whole way all three of us would be crunched. I will be driving Mom's car to TX with Tonie, Alisa will be with Stacy.

The house is all done and everything is in the moving van. We also cleanned so its all done.

Tonie really wants to celebrate her birthday with family so we are doing a small dinner for her. Then we will leave for TX tomorrow, Thursday. We should be in TX on Saturday if not late Friday night.

Moving again.... never thought.

Monday, Monday... again

Can't believe it's Monday again. I was just posting about Monday....

Packed up Mom's house yesterday and today, and, I have to say she was one of the most organized persons. She had so much stuff... whole lot of stuff.... and in sure didn't seem like it when we started. I also found some really cool stuff. She kept some papers from her marriage to my father that ended in the early 70's.

We basically just packed up everything and will sort in TX in a month or so. I can tell you that there is a quite a bit of furniture that I am getting. We are deffinately going to have to increase the sq footage of our house!

Off to bed. I gotta get up early in the morning to pick up the moving truck. The girls and I will be driving back to TX in said moving van this week. (Wish me luck!)

Yeah.....

So Mom passed away Christmas Eve Morning. She went into hospice on Tuesday afternoon. I spent the night next to her and in the morning she was gone. The good news is that all her family was surrounding her laughing about shared memories of her.

I am doing okay. Lots of family all around. Today is my aunt's (Mom's sister) birthday. Again, lots of family. I am doing okay for now. I think when I get back to my regular schedule things will be different.

Christmas was good. Again - family. Kids had a good time.
The girls are doing good. I think because they were not really close to Mom it doesnt affect them as much.

Well thats all for now. Thank you for all your warm thoughts and prayers.

Monday, Monday

I am in Ohio. Actually at the hospital with mom. She is doing okay right now. She is aware and able to carry on a conversation for a few minutes. She is dealing with quite abit of pain due to the cancer spreading to her bones. We are going to look in to hospice if she hangs on this week. She doesnt seem to want to hang around but as we all know there is no time table. Thank you to all who helped yesterday. I am forever grateful.

Will update more later... she is awake for now.

As for me....

I am doing okay. It’s harder than I thought it would be. After the summer I had, I got it my head that everything would be okay as soon as I got to Texas. Well, big surprise, it wasn’t. Mom’s still sick, Stacy’s still in VA, money is still a problem, we’re still a in packing mess.
But God is great and is watching over us. The kids are happy – worth it all!!! We were blessed with the house we found, and more so blessed with the community we landed in.
I have made many friends as well. There is one, Lisa, who stays at home and we do a lot together. From breakfast, to just going to grocery store together, to running to Midland. It has helped with my sense of loss. Loss of the known, loss of my gel family at my side, loss of the church that I love so dear… etc…
Now if I could just get Stacy here…. He is on his way it’s just taking way longer than we thought.

What its like...

It has been a long three weeks since we moved into our new abode. The house is old but has lots of charm. There are lights everywhere and built in shelves as well. 3 bathrooms too which is a big help with 3 females in the house! It also has a huge yard that WILL soon contain a fenced in area for the dogs.
It is smack dab in the middle of town and just a block from the jr/sr high school. The town consists of about 200 residents. There is no 7-11, grocery store, etc. There is, however, a pay –n-pump gas place. It is basically a gas pump on the side of the road that only takes credit cards. Too fun! Oh and everyone gets a free P.O. box because no mail is delivered in town. LOL!
The girls come home from school and depending on homework are soon out the door to play outside with friends. Sometimes they go to the high school football field (north side of town) and sometimes they go to the dirt pile (south 4 blocks). The big thing is they are free to wander where ever. I LOVE that! They can finally be kids. And of course there are friends all over. Tonie has 4 different girls that she plays with here instead of just one(and that was if she was lucky). Alisa has taken over her phone and is texting everyone. She has several girls she hangs with as well.