Curve balls My apologies to readers of this blog for being absentee the last 3 months. I never envisioned having to lay this new venture of blogging aside so soon, albeit temporarily. Yet life brings the unexpected curve ball on occasion and more urgent needs do take priority. We've had 2 immediate family members with serious but not life-threatening injuries involving many doctor visits, PT appts, MRI's and an upcoming surgery in August, multiple trips out of state (one to sit by the hospital bed of a beloved mother/mother-in-law for 4 days), conference calls, out of state real estate problems, and the pressing task of used truck shopping under a time crunch. As it would turn out, we bought a "new" used truck the day before our current truck's transmission gave out. We call that a God-thing. "Normal … [Read more...] about Heading West Part I
Trips
Stepping Back to 1804
The illness mentioned in my last post lasted longer than I thought it would. I ended up being out of commission for several weeks. Thankfully I recovered in time for a planned, 4-day trip with my family over Christmas. While I didn't intend to ignore this blog for so long, I was forced to take a temporary hiatus and am glad to be back! Change is good sometimes At my son and daughter-in-law's suggestion, our family agreed to forego exchanging Christmas gifts this year and instead pool our money for a trip. Because we were not going to be home over Christmas, we did not put up a Christmas tree, didn't bake any cookies and were not home to participate in the Christmas Eve service at church. While those things are special, I have to say we had the most stress-free, easy going, quality time together for the … [Read more...] about Stepping Back to 1804