ok so it's been like forever that i have posted so i was feeling the need to jot down mindless jabber again so here goes:
it's january 2012 and it seems we have all been so busy living life there has been no time to sit and reflect, that is until now 3:30 AM on a monday morning. we have purchased a second new travel trailer and michelle and chad were able to take over our first new one (the bed was a euro double and up high and my ra doesn't like in when i climb up or cannot constantly roll around) so now us, tara's family and michelle's are able to camp together, which is just what we have done a lot of lately. We love just getting away and have been able to stay close enough to be home for sunday morning church, and just far enough away to be gone from home,with huntington beach being our new favorite thus far.
mike has joined me in running the hospitality ministry and is a very welcome addition, he is the calm to my crazy, which after 35 years just seems to be the right balance of both as we rock it out for God weekly. this christmas i talked him into a chocolate fountain table and learned a very hard lesson, 500 people and melted chocolate,,,not so much!!!!! but it had to be tried at least once. we were also asked to join our church's leadership group (yeah i know...what were they thinking) and mike is blowing me away with his passion to serve god and our church, it's only been a little over a year now that he met our loving savior but to tell you the truth i cannot remember when i have known someone so filled with a complete and real love for Jesus, he is truly the reason we are where we are right now, and for that i am forever thankful and graced beyond words.
all four boys are so busy growing up if i blink i miss it. they keep us all young and amazed...taylor is in water polo, golf, boy scouts and lives to ride his scooter, skate board and bmx bike. jordyn is in his first year of school and goes full time as it is a charter school, he loves every moment and is a a+ student, he just finished his first season of soccer and has just joined a baseball team, he also lives to play outdoor and has mad crazy ramp skills on his new big boy bike. he got a new turtle and dog and loves loves loves them both. e is now in pre school and is doing very well learning to adjust to lots of kids and lots of questions, but i know that god keeps an extra eye out for him and loves him even more then me.he finished swim first in his class and played biddy ball and soccer these last months and is also a crazy scooter rider and is learning to ride his special made bmx bike and so far so good and is getting better each day. nothing is out of his grasp and if he wants it or jordie is doing it then he gives it more effort then anyone i have ever seen, oh how i love and admire our lil monkey e. baby hudson is coming into his own and is the most spirited out of the four and to say he keeps us all on our toes is an understatement, and has had his fair share of trips to the er these past few months and spent everest's big christmas program debut, having his head examined and getting x-rays of the large flintstone type bump that he was sporting on his forehead , as he just took off down a flight of stairs and landed face first at the bottom.....mel is getting paid back ten fold for all the fear she caused me as a child. hanging from 10 foot stairs or climbing out her second story window onto the roof top or spinning from 20 foot ropes in the great Y circus.
mike lost a dear friend this last week, it was so unexpected and he is still trying to take it all in. i never had the honor of meeting john but mike just loved him and always talked about him and his family and had hoped we could all camp together as families. when someone we love is taken from our lifes in a blink of an eye it really gives your a new outlook on whats important in life, and if i had to sum up what comes to mind is I would rank it: God,family and health as my top three...but ill take two out of three and hope and pray for three. i had to stop taking my low dose chemo pill due to the number it was doing on my liver. but because my ra count was so high and it was starting to damage my large joints again, i am rolling the dice and taking a chance and have started the pills again. its a love hate relationship but i don't want to live live from a wheelchair so it really is worth the risk, and am still praying for remission....yes i know it's would take a act of God but i have seen to many impossible things become possible not to .......
wow i really love to jabber on and on don't i........ill give y'all a break and go make some coffee and watch a old rerun of father knows best...oh the joys of being wide awake all night......
