Seems like we go from one crisis to another...my dad is not doing well and Lori and I had to tell him yesterday that the doctor thinks that he needs to move to assisted living or a nursing home. I didn't think that it would be so hard to do, but now that the time is here, it is so hard. He is so easy to work with, has a very calm demeaner, but he really doesn't want to move. I feel like I'm making him do something he doesn't want to do. Please pray that things will work out without hard feelings...we are having palliative care evaluate him next week to see if there is anything that we can do to keep him at home...

We have another family situation that I can't discuss...please just pray for our family. God knows our hearts...and our needs...

Got an email from a family that just took their teenage son that has cancer for his final trip from home to the hospital. I can't even imagine the pain...when I see things like this, I realize that our situation is not so devestating...

Thank you for still caring enough to read this rambling by a crazy woman!

We had a great weekend at Buck Creek! The weather was beautiful, albeit a little chilly and windy...but the guys got to take out the sailboat so the weekend was a success! Ted and Jeremy worked many hours to repair and repaint the boat...it looked pretty sharp!

Carli commented that she was warmer this time...she had hair :)

So, everyone is now back to school and things are quiet again. Carli's dress is in, so she will probably come home soon so that we can pick it up. Have no idea how we're going to store it, but oh well!!

Time...goes by so quickly. My mom said that time goes faster as you age, and I never believed her until now! The days fly by and sometimes I don't know what I have done to positively impact my world. I see folks every day that I should help, but in my busyness I don't do what I should do. I wonder if God looks at us and wonders why we are so caught up in things that don't really matter.

My dad was in the hospital this week, please keep him and us in your prayers. They didn't find a cause for his problems...

I have really been thinking about what Carli endured this past year with a heavy heart recently. Many times out of the blue I will see her lying on the couch so sick...in my mind's eye...and I want to be picturing the whole, healthy Carli!

She is really stressing about her grades right now. Her Anatomy and Physiology class is one of the most difficult offered at GCC, and she says that she really needs an "A". Most PT schools look at that one particular grade to see if you can really handle the difficulty of PT. She is doing well, but I can tell that she is really worried. She is also taking Calculus (and the poor thing gets her math "smarts" from me...not good) plus other difficult things. She will be so glad to be done in December! It has been trying for her to be at school without her close friends, who graduated last May. It was really important to her to graduate in the class of '08...at least she is making it right under the wire!

Homecoming is this weekend at GCC and Carli's best friend/prior roomie is there from the DC area. I am sure that they are having a great time catching up on everything. Another friend from Dalton is also there, and she has really missed having Keegan on campus. So, lots of fun with friends this weekend!

Kelsie made me laugh...she was with the alumni sorority sisters on Friday night and she had such a good time...said that it was fun to be with the ladies that graduated 25 and 30 years ago :) Back in the 70's...when GCC was a wild place! SO, their college life was much different than it is now! I think that I am glad that my girls are experiencing the more conservative side of things....even if they don't always like it!

Tara got her first choice job at the James and is working with a preceptor until NOvemeber, then she starts working night shift on her own. She is having many great experiences and calls to tell me, which I so appreciate. It is fun to "compare notes", even though I am not working in the hospital any more. Some things have really changed (technology) and some will never change (difficult patients and doctors).

Next weekend we are going to Buck Creek State Park and staying in a cabin together...all 7 of us...pray for good weather or things might not be pretty...the cabins are fairly small :)