it may be cloudy but the SON is shining!

I woke up early and thought, Ok, Lord, you want me up early I will be up. So I got out of bed and spent extra time with Him this morning. What a great way to start my day!

Took Andy to school since Alexandre was not here this morning and was blessed by DK whilst dropping Andy off at school :)

Came back home, checked email and stuff waiting for a decent hour to call my friend Joanne to see if it was alright to come for a visit. When I spoke to her she was pretty blue, so I headed over to see her.

Stopped for gas on the way. Now aren't you glad I told you that?!?

Joanne was just getting out of the shower when I got there, so we went back to her room and chatted whilst she got dressed and did her hair. I looked through her photo albums from a trip to Oregon she took last summer and one of when she went to Washington DC with both her sisters in '05 that was fun. Soon she was ready so we got checked out and drove over by Roosevelt to see where she grew up. Oh the wonderful memories she has to share about her growing up years :) We ended up at Tommy's for lunch, shared a meal, some tears, some laughs and just enjoyed being together.

After lunch we were heading back to MethWick to go visit Jim, they live in different areas of MethWick Community (ugh being married 56 years it's been a difficult -understatement- for the two of them). Joanne was digging in her purse for her lipstick and could not find it so we decided to go to HyVee to see if we could get some for her, and YES you can buy lipstick at HyVee :) ha

We spent a couple of hours visiting with Jim. He is doing really well. December 17 - his birthday, he got sick in the night and ended up throwing up. He didn't want to vomit on the bed or the floor so he held it in his mouth which ended up with him getting the vomit into his lungs and causing all kinds of problems for him. When he was at the emergency room he told the Dr he was having a stroke. He had had one about four years ago and knew that he was experiencing one again. The Dr did NOT take Jim's word and told Jim he was dehydrated (that is why they call it Practicing Medicine) subesequently Jim had four strokes in all that night. He's come a long way and is doing really well. He has not had any food since his birthday, he is unable to swallow and has had a tracheotomy. He is currently undergoing acupuncture to get his swallowing back and if he can pass a sleep apnea test he will be able to get his trach out!

I dropped Joanne back off at her residence at MethWick and came on home. Only to find Andy and his friends had been here for lunch and didn't clean up the table :(. Soon the door opened and in walked Andy, Ben, Jack, Drew and Dylan. Andy said they had to leave in a hurry after eating and cleaned off the table :) hooray!

The boys are upstairs playing video games, on the Wii or PS2 and the computer. So I am in here posting about my day.

I forgot to mention Doug and I met Jim and Joanne in 1974 and became fast friends. Today Jim shared a couple of stories about Doug that I never had heard. What a blessing even though tears were shed they were good tears ( I still don't like crying, makes my eyes hurt and my head ache) but it was a good time shared.

If you are still reading, bless your heart!

Hope you are on the lookout for miracles! I had one early this morning and a couple this aftenoon, but there is still tonight!