Settling in!

It is funny how things just fall in place, isn't it! Roy has settled into his job rather well. He deals with A LOT of issues everyday and he still needs to hire more nurses, but he really is happy! He seems so settled. Now, if the pain he suffers would only subside, all would be most well!!!! We had a really good appointment with our doctor yesterday and Dr. Jesse gave Roy a new medication that helps and he is sending Roy to PT for a TENS unit, which is very effective for the kind of nerve pain Roy suffers. We are hopeful!

We have really enjoyed re-connecting with our family and our friends! We are truly wealthy and are blessed with many rich relationships--family and friends. We are BLESSED!

I have decided to open a web store on Etsy.com. Etsy is a marketplace of only handmade items. I am currently working on items to list and plan to "open" the store this weekend. (Gotta buy batteries for the camera so I can take the pictures for the website--Roy is going to help with the photos this weekend) I guess I can really begin meaning it when I say I am an artist--a "STARVING" artist!!!! I am laughing out loud!!!!! I am really enjoying "creating". It has taken me a while to find a place to create (I am so missing my basement studio that I had in Wisconsin.) And I have been very frustrated about it! Kay, my "best-est buddy", suggested I take the guest room closet & a folding table and "set up shop." What a great idea! I think I have spent too much time there because any time I walked down the hall, Bailey goes with me and stands in the guest room doorway! (She is my constant companion where ever I go in the house.) I tell her "No, it is not time to create right now!" and she looks rather perplexed about it!!! More info to follow on my store!!!!

Update on our dear friend Keith and his fight with cancer--It has been 9 1/2 months since the diagnosis and he is actually doing very well! Praise the Lord!!! The docs have started him on a new cancer med that he takes daily and things have settled down and no growth is found. Cancer research has progressed by leaps and bounds and remarkable things are being reached everyday!!!!!

God IS good!

Well, I need to get to work and CREATE!!!!

Prayers for Eric

Well, Eric is going out today! Again I ask that you cover him with prayer. Please remember to keep his wife, Lenise, in your prayers as well.

Oh this is the lastest picture of Eric. Very serious and handsome, isn't he? I reckon I am just a little biased and PROUD!!!! But that is a parent's right!!!!!

And here's one of Eric and Lenise. They are so cute! God has blessed Roy and I abundantly!!!

Thanks again and Blessings!!!!

Home!

Well, we're home! We arrived on Easter Sunday and signed the lease on Monday, painted the whole house with my family's help (Thank you very much!!!!), and the furniture arrived Saturday.

We know that God has orchestrated our move to Texas! I have new motto through all this change--"If Jesus brings me to it, He will show me how to do it!" It is so true and we have seen it over and over in the last few months.

The house we rented is a nice one but needs a LOT of love. Per the neighbors, there were college kids living here and before that military--which nothing wrong about that but the house took alot of abuse and needs alot of fixing and TLC.

As of this writing: the kitchen faucet has been replaced including the sprayer, two leaking bathroom faucets, replaced a shower head, removed a pony tail tie from the shower handle, removed a glob of gunk from the m/b tub, replaced the "innards" of both toilets, replaced a ceiling fan, repaired the kitchen light fixture, the stove blew up and required a new control panel, the electric meter was tampered with requiring replacing, the A/C froze up and finally today 6/10, the cable company is coming to replace the whole cable box and wiring in the back yard!!!!!! Wow!

It has been real hard making a 2800 sq ft house fit into a 1600 sq ft house--without a basement to boot! (I miss a basement!) We've rented a storage unit and filled it. We also sold alot of stuff on Craigslist or gave it away. It is all worth it to be home and we are much happier!

Beagle Bailey has been confused! She has taken to sleeping in our closet--reckon it smells the most like us and home. She has a backyard for the first time in her life and she loves it! She just sits outsides and smells. She also walks the perimeter of the yard about 17 times a day! It is cute to watch. The weather is too hot for me --I am remembering why I treasure air conditioning! It is a blessing!

Roy says he likes his job and is making a difference. He is in charge of the whole 5th floor of Scott & White Hospital and it is alot of "mileage" every day so his knees are giving him fits. The constant pain from the diabetic neuropathy is worsening and he is suffering greatly. Please continue to pray that God will open the doors for some kind of pain relief as we talk to the doctors.

Being back home, we were able to celebrate our niece Stephanie's graduation from Mary Hardin Baylor and also celebrated with our nephew Ryan's marriage to Tracy (a great girl) May 31. They were grand affairs and good times and more blessings God has given us. Eric was in the wedding so he and Lenise got to come home. It was FANTASTIC seeing them.

Well that's the update and examples of how God has blessed us!!! Enjoy the pictures!

AND love to all!!!!!