Sun?

Today is Sunday. The beginning of another week. It is the last day of the weekend. It has been warm. The leaves are out on even the bigger trees now. We have a tree that is just in front of our patio. It is so lonely when it has no leaves. It is beautiful with new leaves coming and shades the patio just perfectly in the late Spring, Summer and Fall. I love our apartment. I miss home sometimes...however, I keep remembering all the memories. They have come with us. I miss the people tho. I lived around some of the neighbors for all but about 11 years of my life. It is sad. There isn't even time in the day to visit anymore.
I have been doing geneology. I have found alot of information. It is exciting to me. There have been many notes and comments about the visiting and singing. I miss that with my dad, mom and sisters. I miss the times we had with my grandpa and grandma Frey. We always had somewhere to go on holidays and felt needed. It was great. I love my family.
Mom comes home today. We went to Kirtland for 2 and half days for Jeff's job so mom stayed with Denise. Kirtland was very nice. We saw the sights and enjoyed the evenings together. He learned things and I felt at peace in the hotel and around Mentor and Kirtland Ohio. It was a nice couple of days. I don't have a camera. I didn't get any pictures. If you want to see how it looked...it was amazing...it looked just like it looked in all of the pictures I had always seen. The temple, however, looked a bit bigger than I was expecting. It really was a pretty good size for their first endeavor. So if you can't go then look online for the information on Kirtland...it is the next best thing to being there...:)
Anyway, Mom is coming home. She has been a stinker at Denise's. I am so sad. Jeff had a dream that she went kicking and screaming, swearing and saying all kinds of hateful things, when being put into a nursing home. It is getting time. Isn't it odd how someone can be quite wonderful physically and their mind just leaves them? Alzheimer's has left my mom a completely different person. There is no understanding this disease...just patience and acceptance. I am still working on both of those!
Well, all is well. The kitties made it through the little vacation from us with flying colors. We were all so excited to be back together.
Hallelujah to ya!!!!! Cindy used to say that all the time when she was happy or excited about something.
I saw some sandels on sale in the advertisements this weekend. They were quite a good price. I wanted to call all of my nieces and nephews and get sizes and buy them some! I wish we could do more. We sure love them.

Our lives are swirling away...

When we ask each other how we are doing do we really want to know? I ask myself that sometimes when someone really tells me. I REALLY do care about how people are doing...sometimes it is just impossible for me to make any difference. I feel at a loss. Part of who I am is dealing with and solving problems...my life is so overwhelming now I really have no way of knowing how to help anyone else. You know the saying "You can't lift anyone up higher than you are". Believe me you do NOT want to be where we are.

We had an instance this week that has hit me pretty hard. Jeff felt the sting as well. There is a great family we have felt close to that has just had a baby. We are THRILLED for them. It is a wonderful thing to bring a new family member into the family. We have been so involved in the whirlpool of our lives we didn't even know our friend was going to have a baby. She was expecting for 9 months and had the baby without us even knowing...it has been a horrible realization for me. I am sorry to our wonderful friends out there...and don't forget our family. I have neglected you all. We still love you, think about you and want to continue our relationships. Sometimes it just seems to much of a mess to even contact anyone...we don't have anything to share. Our lives seem to be have been filled to the rim with sickness and death, lost dreams and it just seems to keep happening. We haven't forgotten you tho...please know we still love you.

Times will be better in the future. I mean, don't you have to keep hoping? In the meantime, we hope you won't forget us and will be there when the good times begin to roll again.

Hugs to all.

Spring??

Is it to good to be true? Is spring here? Jeff thinks we will have one more snow...I don't mind if it isn't bad. I LOVE THE WEATHER!!! It was wonderful yesterday and today is as well. These are the types of days that make you wake up after the long winter hybernation. I LOVE IT!!!
The crisis from last week has been overted forever we hope. Justin is feeling better. Hopefully, his healing will be short and permanent! We all love him so much.
Our kitties were sure glad to see us when we got home. They weren't even mad because we had been gone. They just came to us and loved us. I love animals. They are so forgiving. They are a good example of how we should be.
Jeff is back at work. He hasn't had a bad day today.
Timi is off school from IU in Bloomington and trying to get things ready for IPFW in the fall. It will be nice to have her closer to us. She is really a great kid, although, sometimes she is a stinker! ( That was for you, Timi)
Mom is back home and doing well. She gets mixed up going from here to Denise's. She will be fine tho.
All is well at the Murphy household. THANK THE GOOD LORD!!!!

Justin is in ICU!!!

Our brother, Justin, is in the hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia. We are SOOO worried. If you can just put a few prayers up to Heavenly Father for him we would appreciate it. He is a good guy...and we want him to pull through this illness with flying colors. Hopefully, we will know something more soon. We found out he was taken to the ER this morning at 10 am. We found out he was alive at noon. Little progresses at a time...
Thanks.