Sigh, I need to be with you all! I need to hear from you all! Thanks Tim! Funny how this is my favorite time of year - it's beautiful, on my drive to work I cross a little "body of water" on a one lane bridge - I think the creek is called Winters Run. There are trees hanging over the road and meeting overhead. When the wind blows all the autumn colored leaves flutter down, I took some pictures, but since I've inherited Rachel's old laptop, I haven't figured out how to down/upload photos yet. Before I share more, I want to show you a picture that my niece emailed me - when my sister in Florida was here last fall, my other sister and her family (who live in Frederick, Maryland) came over. My nephews wife is a photographer, so she brought her camera(s). We decided to have each family grouping dress differently - in white, in black and crazy in purple. Anyway, Rose sent the "goofy" family picture.
Rose cracked me up, she wrote "I've got no idea what Uncle Dave is doing." ha ha ha
I let myself get "down" this month - my 54th birthday was last week and I was dwelling on my mother's death. She went in the hospital for the last time on her 54th birthday, she died three weeks later. I think of her and how relatively young I am and I just grieve again for her loss. Bear with me, I miss her so much. There is no other woman like your mother. I know not all mothers are the same ..... but.....
Then, the same week as my birthday, my boss called me in to his office and boom the economy has struck home. My hours have been cut, I now work 3 days a week. After my initial bad attitude, and Dave's encouragement, I realize, this is okay, I'm off Fri, Sat, Sun and Mon every week. There's lots I like to do at home, so I can handle this. The situation is to be "revisited" after the first of the year. My hopes are not very high.
But in all this I have many, many blessings! My family is coming to my home for Thanksgiving! We will have another crazy photo shoot courtesy of Heather! My husband loves and supports me (and is very excited about dinner being on the table when he gets home from work 2 days out of 5). It will just take a little longer to pay off the kitchen remodel. It's only money.
God is in control. I share this all the time, now I must practice the words I share!
Ciara - I can't say how much I enjoyed your post about the marriage proposal! I was reading it outloud to people. How romantic! I'm so happy for you. You look absolutely BLISSSFUL!
Rachel is racking up those air miles. Rich has reservations to fly to Philly on Thanksgiving Day. But his leave hasn't been approved yet, if it is not approved, she will fly to Texas. I hope and hope his leave is approved, both because his family would love him to be home for Thanksgiving, and because I hate the thought of Rach sitting in airports on Thanksgiving Day. Ugh.
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