It's almost a new year...

Wow! 2006 seems to have flown by and yet, so many exciting and not so many exciting things happened this year that I have to tell those of you worried about the new year to hang in there, even during your darkest hours, Jesus Christ is with you.



This year started off with two of my sons being sent to prison. One deserved to go but the other one didn't and it was very hard on me for awhile to accept that both were where God wanted them to be at the same time and equally in places where I knew I didn't have to worry about them eating or sleeping.



Our family had a great time in April at the Phoenix Nascar races camping out in the old 'Shaggin Wagin,' a 1980 Chevy RV we bought several years back that was painted with old hippie sayings and pictures. However, by the time November's race rolled around I had begun to change the paint scheme to more of a Nascar theme with black and white checkered door, drivers sayings, etc.



In August we finally made the decision to move to Washington (actually my husband did) after three years of discussing it and when he applied for his job, what happened next I just knew it was destined by God. His interview was over the telephone, he took his physical and medical and drug tests here in Phoenix and he was offered more per hour than we ever thought possible. They even gave him six weeks to be at the job.



Our home was placed on the market in October and I began packing and hubby began cleaning up the yard, planting the yard and getting rid of junk (I never realized how much junk we had accumulated). October 30th hubby left for Washington, but took the RV over to PIR so we could wait in line and I wouldn't have to drive it.



November 1st I went on what was supposed to be a 12 day vacation and has wound up being almost 2 months of recovery from a shattered ankle.

Our home sold in December and closed on the 15th and my hubby and a friend came from Seattle to pack and load the truck. We hired cleaners to clean up the inside. After 3,4 & 5 years of living and knowing no other home but ours as theirs, my grandchildren and I moved in with two dear friends that have taken care of me and them during my recovery.

The lawsuit with the other grandmother is still going on and my daughter-in-law has decided to finally file for divorce after an illegitmate pregnancy and miscarriage while my son has been in prison. Both are trying to gain custody of the grandchildren that my husband and I have basically raised since their birth. The same children the mother walked out on in October 2005 and never looked back. The same children the grandmother has never called, has never came by to visit.

2007 will have an exciting beginning:

I start back to work on January 2nd, though still on Percocet, the Dr. states I can go back to work.

On January 7th, my son who should never have gone to prison will come home & we will have a celebration.

Sometime in January we will close on our new home in Washington.

Here is wishing all your dreams come true and that you can always see the light at the end of the tunnel, even if it is so small it looks no bigger than the head of a pin.

God Bless You All in 2007!