i'm back! cindy, if you missed me blogging all you had to do was say something! :0)
after a very long hiatus, i am back to my little blogger world. did you miss me? anyone? anyone? bueller?
as you can imagine, many things have happened in our lives since i was last here in march. is that right? has it really been 3 months? how did that happen? i will give you a brief rundown in a very handy list form (thanks, cindy) & hit the highlights!
- tate's bday blowout was a huge success!!! we are officially the coolest parents ever!
- we decided that goliath actually was not the dog for our family! he is an amazing dog, but our family is a rare one (insert your own cute comments here) that was going to need a very specifically special dog. do we even need a dog?
- haley was in another amazing ballet (coppelia) & did so well! we are so very proud!
- went to texas for easter & had such a great time with family & friends!! with a few minor exceptions: my childhood best friend was in an extremely serious car wreck (the morning after we spent the day before together) which has left her, still to this day, in a wheelchair, but improving all the time. and my beloved oma had a pretty severe stroke the day before my scheduled visit with her! i told her "if you didn't want us to come, all you had to do is say so"...she thought that was pretty funny! it was hard to see my otherwise sharp as a tack oma not quite up to snuff!!!!
- 2 weeks later i got word that my oma was not doing so well & that she was calling for me & asking for me!!!! i hopped on a plane in a mad dash to see her & let her see me. when i arrived at 12:15, i was told she had passed away just 15 minutes earlier!!! i missed her by a matter of minutes & how i still miss her! i have a continual ache...that woman was sooooo amazing!!! i did, however, get to spend some incredible time with my brother as we made preparations to say our final goodbyes to our oma & our papa (passed away in '97) & to my childhood home away from home, smithville, tx!!
- in the midst of the madness, God still moves & speaks!!!!!!!!
- i returned from the funeral in texas the evening before my girl's end of the year ballet performances. i wouldn't have missed them for the moon, however, the airlines tried their darndest to keep me from them.
- upon the completion of the recital, our family then hopped into a rented rv & headed for mississippi that very night. for what, you might ask? remember how i said God still moves & speaks? well, i had given up the idea of actually getting a diabetes alert dog (aka DAD). many things had transpired & one night around midnight or 1, i began to pray that God would just show me once & for all what to do about the whole DAD situation. should we get one or not? the very next morning while getting ready for church (around 8:30a), i received a phone call from wildrose kennels in mississippi...they had a puppy for us (a DAD for the training). He answered my prayers in less than 8 hours...wow, i wish every prayer was answered so quickly!!!
- we now have a new addition to the family...his name is emmett & as of today, he is 12 weeks old. he joined our family when he was 7 weeks old & hasn't looked back. he has been camping at the beach & the mountains & is headed for lake camping next week. he is extremely smart & very eager to learn!!! he has already begun to alert to the low blood sugars (not consistently, but moving forward just the same). he is precious & absolutely 100% puppy!! he loves us & is going to be the perfect fit for our family! God is sooooo big!!!
well, that pretty much sums things up...believe it or not, that was the short version. ok, stand up & move around. hopefully, not too many body parts have fallen asleep in the reading of this update!! i'll try not to stay away so long & therefore save you from a 3 month catch-up version.
