BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY

Well...the last few weeks have been busy ones. Nick is keeping me on my toes with all of his homework. I am working 6 day weeks so by the time my off day comes around I'm pretty pooped. Last weekend a lady from my work and a group of people from her church came over and helped me do a few projects around my house. They are coming back over tomorrow to work on it a bit more. I am so humbled by everyone's kindness. I can only hope that one day I will be able to repay everyone for what they have so selfishlessly done for me and my family.
It has been really hard for me here lately. I am missing John so deeply. I have good days and bad days. Mostly Good though with God's daily help and grace. Sometimes the tears just come and I have to let them fall. It's just not always good timing.
Last weekend we took Nick to Courtney and Jakey's old high school's football game. It will be where Nick is going next year. He had so much fun. The band parents always clean up the stadium after the game is over and Nick wanted to help so badly. One of the band parents that we know let him take a trash bag around and wear the plastic gloves that they give out to wear and Nick was BEYOND thrilled! For some reason here lately he is obsessed with picking up others trash. Or anything that is out of place. It is driving me BANANAS!!! I have to constantly tell him to put it down! His bus driver told me this afternoon that when trash blows up on the floor of the bus to the front that Nick hands him (the driver) the trash a piece at a time for him to throw away. He is so obsessive about it. I hope this is just a phase that he will soon outgrow.
Today I made a downpayment for Jakey's car to be fixed. Hopefully that will be fixed in the next few weeks. I hate for him to be without a car. Thanks to Mr. Johnson, Nick's bus driver, it will be fixed soon. We are having a new engine put in my Daddy's old car. The Subaru Legacy.
The weather is starting to get a little chillier here! YAY!!! It has been such a hot summer that we are welcoming the cooler weather. I am working 9:30-3:15pm tomorrow then I'm gonna go home and have an early dinner with Courtney and Nick and then I'm going back in at 5pm and working til 9pm to help with the "new hires" on good customer service skills. On Saturday I am working from 9:30-5pm then when I get home Courtney and I are going to take Nick to his school's fall carnival. He's looking forward to it! I'm looking forward to a nap.
I just got through making a cake to take to work tomorrow. We are having a potluck lunch tomorrow and I signed up to take my coconut cake. I'm letting it cool then I'm gonna put the topping and coconut on it. I hope it turns out good and tastes ok. I haven't made it in awhile.
I have a few silent prayer requests. God knows the intentions. I'm not sure I need to share the details online but I know a few people in need of prayer. Could you just lift my friends up in prayer. I appreciate it.
The little kitty (Gus Gus) caught a baby squirrel inside my home...yes I said inside...a few nights ago. And he was not about to let go of it. It took me trapping him in my kitchen and gently poking him with a long handled duster to make him drop the half dead thing. I tossed him out of the kitchen and I grabbed some latex gloves and a empty butter dish and scooped it up and put in the trash and disposed of it. It gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking of it!!! I hate little critters....especially ones that think they need to live inside with me. Lets pray that there are no more unwanted guests to show up thinking they are going to take up residence here with Nick and I.
Jakey is going to the BAMA vs Florida game on Saturday. He's excited. I think he is enjoying his college experience so far. I don't really hear from him much. His girlfriend goes to another college and she is thinking of transferring to Bama also. We hope she gets too. She's good for Jakey and we love her.
Still lots to do around here. Just taking it one day at a time. I need a massage or at least a calgon take me away moment. Maybe one day I'll take the time to treat myself.
Tomorrow is my Daddy's Heavenly birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY/PAPA!!! We love you so much and miss you too! Take care of our Daddy/Hubby/John (your son-in-law)...Til we get there to be with you both!!!
Take care everyone.
Thanks for checking in on us.
We still need the prayers.
Much love to you all...

Kimberley and

the kids

WELL ITS BEEN AWHILE....

It's been quite sometime since I posted on this site. I have decided that I will probably use this site instead of the caringbridge website from now on. I am missing my honey so much. It is so hard to put one foot in front of the other some days. But God is giving me the strength to do what I need to do each day. My work family have been phenominal with their neverending support of me and my children. And the love from my friends and neighbors and people I have never met is so mind-boggling. I am one blessed woman. I only hope that I can repay everyone's kindness one day.

The kids and I are trying our best to keep our focus on what is at hand. My work and their "job", middle school and college. I'm not sleeping very well at night. I guess its just all of the things that I need to accomplish that is weighing heavily on my mind.

Some wonderful neighbors and thier friends from church have volunteered to help me out with some much needed home improvement projects around my house and my mom and my Aunt Vickie have been taking their "off-days" from their own jobs to come to my house to help me de-junk and de-clutter. A lot of things can't be done unless I am here to "supervise" because some of the stuff that needs to be gone through is stuff that only I can say whether it needs to be kept or thrown away or not. I know that each and every one of these special people are all very tired themselves but they are doing such a selfless task and God will bless them...I JUST KNOW IT!!!

We have had our fair share of roadblocks in the past few weeks. A couple of weeks after John's passing Nick and I were in a wreck in our minivan and it was totaled, then our downstairs air conditioner went out and then Jakey and Courtney's cars were/and are messed up. A dear man went to Courtney's campus to help jump off her car. He got it going and even gave her his jumper cables to keep in case she needed them in the future. She asked me if she could stay on campus for a little while and then come home a little late on Friday night. I told her ok. She was about to come home around 11:15pm and went to go get in the car and it wouldn't start again. SO Nick and I went downtown and picked her up and got back home and in the bed around 1:00am. Then I got up and went to work and worked all day then went home and picked up all the kids and we went back downtown and jumped off Courtney's car again and got it back to Alabaster then took it to the auto-parts store and had the battery checked. It needed one. SO we got it replaced then took the car home and then we headed back to T-Town to take Jakey back to campus. He wanted to get back so he could study for a huge test that he was taking today. On the way there (which was about 8:45pmish) we saw an accident on the opposite side of the interstate with traffic backed up for about 2 miles or so. I know there are other ways back home from Tuscaloosa but I do not know them yet so I knew we would probably be sitting in traffic on the way back from dropping off Jakey. And that my friends would be a (45 minute delay) on our return trip home. The emfamous "interstate parking lot". Well...so much for getting to bed early on Saturday night.

Sunday was stay at home and do things day for me and then I took Nick and Courtney to the grocery store with me. It was nice having helpers to bring in and put away the groceries. I got to bed at a decent hour last night but I had a very fitful sleep once again. I'm hoping that this sleep deprevation pattern does not make a permanent stay at my house.

Today was back to work and school for all of us. Nick was having a very Autistic morning this morning. He was very argumentative and whiney. I hate it when our day starts off on a bad foot. He told me he was sorry as he was getting out of the car. A sad song came on the radio as he was getting out of the car and walked into the school and I just teared up and cried as I drove away. Some days are just sad...ya know.

Well...I need to wash a sink full of dishes and do a few things before I turn in for the evening.

Thanks to all of you who still check in on our little life on this side of this big ole spinning blue ball. (planet earth!!)

Always Believe and B+

Love Kimberley and the kids