Hey Family
The sun is SHINING this morning, YEAH. The ice should all be melted this afternoon. I did not have even one person come in to the office yesterday and only 2 phone calls. Wish I could have stayed home and worked on Brice's quilt. It is coming along great.

Received a call from Eletia this morning letting me know that she and Jimmy had gotten married last Sat in Las Vegas. I can say that I was not surprised as there have been some "sparks" flying around that I have picked up on. I am very very happy for her and wish her only the best. Life does go on and she is too young to live the rest of her life alone. She has my best wishes and I hope they will be very happy. We can't walk in another persons shoes and we can't live another person's life for them. This will be her "second" lifetime or maybe her third. I have made the statement that my first lifetime was as a child living with my mother and sisters. I have very great and wonderful memories of that time in my life BUT I know that I can never go back "there". That life, as I knew it is gone forever. My second life was when I met and fell so deeply in love with Dalmer. He was so very very handsome and charming. We made our way, him trying all the time to keep mother out of our business (ha). We had our 3 wonderful children and watched them grow up and make their own way. We never had much but gave them all we could. Our life was not perfect, no one's is, in case you did not notice but we had the one thing we all needed and that was love for each other. When Dalmer passed away I thought my world was over and I never intended to re-marry, be "faithful" to our memory.

Well seems that God had different plans for my life and even tho I never knew
J W, God sent him my way and he would not take no for an answer. How empty my life would have been for the last 25 years with out him. This was my "third" lifetime. My love for J W was very different than my love for Dalmer. It was a different time in my life (age) and life was just different. I will always have my young love and respect for Dalmer and always have my later in life love and respect for J W. They each have their own place. This is very hard to explain to others maybe that have not walked down this road. One does not take away from the other, can't you see??

Kids, be happy for your mom, she is still the same mom and she still loves you unconditionally and always will and yes, she still loves your dad.

Kittie has been spending some time at the hospital in Lubbock with Lynnie and Michael is sick with cold like symptoms and running a fever so she has not been able to come in to work this week.

Waiting for news of Mr. Carson's arrival and praying for everything to go smooth, won't be long now. Jared, praying for you to be able to find work. It has got to be tough out there with everything that is going on with the economy. Everyone is laying off, not hiring. Upside is that you are able to be home right now with Betsy and Kate as you wait for baby Carson.
Love, Maw