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