OK Blair your Dad is finally blogging. Hello one and all. It's 9:30 on Saturday nite. I hope that everyone is well. I had a pretty dull day at work. It started at 5:30 am this morning with a call to pickup a 23 yr. old male that had the rare disease of aging. A 100 yr. old looking man at such a young age. This was a very hard call with the father caring him out to the hearse. He was about 3 ft. tall and weighed a little over 20 lbs. The rest of my day consisted of directing 5 funerals. Pretty boring day, huh. I guess one reason that I do not blog or seem concerned about things in my family lives that I am so involved in so very many other families lives. This is a lame excuse. I know . I dearly love my family and am concerned about each and every one of you. Without Family you truly have nothing. I do have my family here in the metroplex and my family back home in Crosbyton. Take today for instance. Every family that I was in contact today was different, just like ours is different . Everyone has different concerns and needs and each has to be addressed. I guess the point that I am trying to make is that I chose this proffession is to be of comfort to people in need. I realize that I have made many mistakes in my life and many people do not know or understand, including myself, why I have done some of the things that I have done, but the majaority of them have been done in love for my family and for their well-being. I know this may sound like a copout, but I would do anything for my family. OK, enough on the doom and gloom. This is why I do no blog, because I probably say more than I should. The truth is that I have gone thru many different things in my life and I know that no matter what you can always count on family. I read Jared's Blog and I agree that there has been several troubled waters in the family, but thank God we have survived all of them. You know we all have only one day at a time and we should live it like it is our last, but on the other hand as the old saying goes it is the first day of our lives. I read earlier about Betsy glowing over Jared and is not ashamed over it, so I would love to glow about my wife and children. My gosh, I must be tierd, depressed, and anxious about all of our lives. I truly do have the most wonderful wife, children, and Caden that a man could ever have. I am looking forward to Toby Britches. My little family has always or maybe for the most part defended and supported me in all my wild adventures. Eletia, the very core of my heart, has stood beside me thru thick and thin. Eletia and I went thru a heck of a lot at a very young age with the loss of Nelda, Dad, and George. We had a lot of growing up to do in a short period of time. I know that I have mentioned this before, but I I am only trying to reintirate the fact that parents and grandparents are a very important aspect of ones lives. Eletia has stuck by me no matter what and I love her with all my heart. Maw, I do remember February 8th, as Eletia and I were in Dallas of all places on a business trip for the seed company and went to George's house to pick up the kids and were told about dad. That was the most gut wrenching news that anyone could have experienced. I felt hurt, sad, lost, depressed, mad, anxious, but most of all guilty. Guilty of the fact that I was not there to tell my Daddy that I loved him. After Daddy got sick he always seemed to put this wall between me at least, that everything would be fine or not, but he would handle it on his own. I believe that Dad and Mom did handle it own their own, but by either my fault or his stubborness I was not able to share his encounter with death. I felt that Dad was with peace with god, but never heard him say it. I still to this day base my beliefs on what daddy told me is that if you treat your fellow man right that everything would be ok. Thank god for daddy being there when April quit breathing and came to Eletia's rescue and that Nelda being so sick was there for Blair's birth with Kittie and Tressie skipping school. OK, getting very tierd, have to be up early in the morning to hit the old death trail again. I do love each and everyone of you. There are great and trying things going on each of our lives and we must cherish each and everyone of them. I do hope to come to Crosbyton sometime soon as I miss everyone. I realize that probably most of everything that I wrote doesn't make sense, but it did me good to vent a little bit instead of having all the venting come to me thru other disfunctional families. HA! I do have everyone in my thoughts and prayers each and everyday. I do have a question of the day. I will have to think a little longer about my answer will be, but what do you look forward to the next day? Love Ya'll
Mike