This week I will be making a our 1st road trip to visit a College Campus with my son.    He has already been accepted to Austin Peay University, and so we are going to go see the campus / dorms and see what they have to offer.   He is applying at another college, but we haven’t heard back from them yet.  I am fairly certain that we will have another road trip to plan for a College Campus tour there as well.

I have found myself sitting here the past several days, wondering where the past 4 years have gone?  I swear to you it feels as though he JUST entered High School.  Yet in just 7 short months he will be a High School graduate and have his last summer at home as a “child”.   I find myself getting super excited to see where life leads him as he continues on to College, and yet sad to see him leave home.  I am not sure I am going to be able to handle this one!!   This is my baby, that I am talking about.     He has a huge heart and is willing to help his dad and I with absolutely anything we ask of him.  Although honestly, we don’t ask him to do much…simply because his schedule is so full already, but we know he is there when we ask. read more

 

Most people see me and don’t know the pain that I live with each day.  I do my best to mask it, as I decided several years ago, to not broadcast to people, what I am dealing with on a daily basis.  I don’t see how it benefits anybody if I let them know whether I am having a “good” day or a “bad” day, in regards to my pain levels.   You see I have one of those “hidden” diseases.   It began over 25 years ago, and it wasn’t until about 6 1/2 years ago, that I couldn’t take it anymore.  Up until that point, if I had a bad day, I would call out of work and stay on a heating pad for a day or so.   I have hereditary degenerative  disk disease, that I didn’t do anything about until there was so much damage, that there were very few options left for me. read more

On May 2nd, I was blessed by my middle daughter, Tiffany, with a gorgeous new granddaughter. She came into this world so tiny, only weighing 6lbs, 8 oz. I believe out of all the babies in our family, that she is the tiniest one we have had yet. She was born healthy as can be, and although I am a little prejudice , I believe she is just the most amazing, beautiful little human ever! I have always heard it said, that when you become a grandparent, it is a kind of love that you can’t describe. When I would hear that, I would think , there is no way that I would be able to love anything more or even similiar to what I felt about my own children when they were born. I am here to tell you, with this being my 3rd grandchild, the statement that it is a special amazing different kind of love, is so true!! If you don’t have any grandchildren yet, you won’t understand. However, once you have one, you will totally get what I am saying! The love that you feel when you look at them is something that is undescribable. You almost feel as though your heart will burst out of your chest with the love you feel for this tiny human being that has just come into the world!! My daughter surprised me when she told me her full name. They named her , Serenity Sky Ann Kelly. The reason it was a surprise, was because they chose her middle name Ann, after myself and her other grandmother. Now I don’t want to take away from the other grandma, but in my mind, she is named after me. LOL read more