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You know it's been busy when your neighbors call to make sure that you are alive. They called last night and we assured them that we are OK... just never home!

It really has been busy for us but hopefully that will change this month a bit... at least for a while we hope! March and April where insane months with many highs and lows for us and we are very glad to start over in a new month.

March was taken over by the loss of my Grandmother who passed away less then a week before her 93rd birthday. Grandma 'B' or Birdie as her friends and family knew her had a long, and not always easy life. Her health really began reclining back in December and we have been very surprised that she was able to make it to March 11Th. The last time that i got to see her on this Earth was the Saturday before and she was suffering from a severe loss of memory. She could look at me and realize that I looked like myself, yet in the very next sentence would ask me whose child I was. That was one of the hardest part of her deterioration, and a part that I am glad that my aunt didn't get to see her like. The last thing that she said to her nurse when the nurse told her that she was loved just like a baby to them, my Grandmother said that "It's time for the Baby to go to sleep" and she did. When the nurse came back a few minutes later she was gone. Very peacefully without any pain. And for that we are thankful.

Unfortunately the timing of the Funeral and Burial kept Brandon from Going to Pastors School this year. I felt bad that he stayed with me but know that I would have done the same had the situation been reversed. Hes really a great Husband to me.


April was just plain busy! It seemed that we where always doing something, or preparing to do something. Plus with Ladies Meeting in Durham, Brandon's work conference in VA Beach, youth conference back in Durham and the very successful car show at church and another ladies meeting this past Monday plus other varies activities no wonder the neighbors think we up and moved!

Where have we been?

That's an excellent Question! Busy with Work things I suppose is the best Answer!

I just wanted wish all a belated Happy Valentines day! Brandon and I went pretty simple this year. We had originally talked about saving money on gifts for each other and putting it towards getting passports so that if a really good opportunity to leave on a cruise comes up we will be ready. That didn't happen but i guess the thought was a good one right? I was completely Broke this year and couldn't spoil my husband they way I would have liked and as he deserved but i did manage to make him a 75 song collection of love songs that he could play on dates or during dinners. I also picked up some cologne back in January at a sale that Id like him to wear and it smells heavenly on him! But me being me, Ever the Blond I did have one Valentines Misfortune. I accidentally lost or through out his Card! GONE! No idea what I did With it!

As for Brandon's gifts for me... well He remembered how against getting the traditional flowers and Candy that you normally would get for Valentines, but out smarted the system! He surprised me with one of my favorite candy's ( Jelly Bellies) and gave me a Rose scented candle! He also gave me a willow tree memento box as it had a rose carved out of the side of it and an assortment of tarts for the Kitchen! His card was sweet enough to bring tears to my eyes too which is my favorite part of Valentines. Hes the best!

We also attended our Churches valentines banquets and had a great time at Both. Brandon's sister Shannon got the award for Queen, Best Dressed and Best Eyes that night. Not a bad way to end your year huh?

This time of year though is always the hardest for me personally though. The 13Th marked 14 years since my Father passed away, and no matter how busy I get in life i still miss him everyday. This year to mark his passing I made sure to make time to go visit his mother my 92 year old Grandmother. Since her heart attack in December she hasn't been quite the same and it seems that she may be in the early onset of Alzheimer's. But she still knows me and knew what the day was but she held up better then I had for most of the day. Shes an amazing woman.

As Always,
Misty

Sand and Stone

I found this the other day and like it quite a lot! One of the things I am most thankful for are the Friends around the Country that God has given to me. It seems that someone no matter what comes up in my life there is always someone, somewhere who knows what I'm going through. Thanks Girls!

SAND or STONE?
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert.
In a specific point of the journey,
they had an argument,
and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one, who got slapped, was hurt,
but without anything to say,
he wrote in the sand:
"TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE".
They kept on walking,
until they found an oasis,
where they decided to take a bath.
The one who got slapped and hurt started drowning,
and the other friend saved him.
When he recovered from the fright,
he wrote on a stone:
"TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE"
The friend who saved and slapped his best friend asked him,
"Why, after I hurt you, you wrote in the sand,
and now you wrote on a stone?"
The other friend, smiling, replied:
"When a friend hurts us, we should write down in the sand,
where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away,
and when something great happens,
we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart,
where no wind can erase it."
*****
And remember that

As Always,
Misty

A Quite Weekend...

Well as quite as it gets I guess! This week has been pretty interesting and the weekend ended up being par for the course.

I got to have 2 doctors appointments this week. One just to Patient First for an Ear infection and one later in the week to see my OBGYN Doctor. The Ultra sound I was having done was to see how large the Cyst that I had was and If it would need to be surgically removed. Well instead of one large one she found many small ones, basically just a confirmation to my Doctors diagnoses of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or PCOS as is commonly called. So no surgery at least so that's a great praise!


Later in the week though Brandon started catching a cold. Poor Baby! He rarely gets sick and when he does... well hes usually only down and out for a few short hours. Friday was the day. A Grand total of 14 hours of sleep later (from 3pm Friday to 9am Saturday) plus most of Saturday on the Couch did the Trick (along with a large consumption of OJ, Vitamin C and Tylenol) But My 1pm he was ready to accomplish something, so he tackled the wiring mystery of our living room. (why would anyone want or need 3 switches that control 1 outlet?) Well its more complicated then Brandon thought (our house was very oddly wired it seems) And soon decided that another day would be better. Some how though our Cable box died... so its a good thing we had plans that night.

We started Christmas early with the www.trans-siberian.com. This was Brandon's 4th time going and my 2nd and we love it! It was a great way to kick things off this year! And we plan on going whenever we can in the the years to come!

Hope you all are doing well.

Love, Misty

October is Almost gone already? When did that happen?

I cant believe that this month is almost over! Everything from the beginning of the month seems like it was Forever and a day ago but I guess not. We are still waiting on word on if our kitchen and duct damage really was but I am quite thankful for a dishwasher that works and that does not leak anything!

Other going on include us attending a wedding for a good old friend of mine from high school Sarah Lamotte, she got Married on 10/11 to her very own "Top Gun fighter pilot". They were such a happy couple and it was so good to see her and also a bunch of my old high school Girlfriends. Sarah and her husband Zack are now moving to Pensacola Fl for his continued Training, I will miss her so at Christmas.

This past weekend we got to Drive even further out into 'the country' to visit with our Friends at the Minters in honor of their 11th anniversary. It was a good time with good friends and good food and basically letting us run loose in her Candle kitchen. We ended the night with the group having a fall bonfire and letting the men play with Fire while all the women suffered Smoke attacks! But it was a great time. The Minters are a great family and I love getting to spend time around them and their kids.

Other then that not to to much has been happening that's eventful. I've been helping my BFF Gina turn over a new page in her life, Brandon's been gearing up for more work and we've both barely had time to see each other, let alone do anything of interest. Maybe next month right?

Oh before I go a quick Congrads to Mark and Candy on the Birth of Little Abigail Elizabeth Robinson, born today and weighing in at 7lbs and 10 onces! You guys are going to make Great Parents!


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Pulling the Thread

This week feels like I've been pulling the thread that unravels the sweater.

It all started back in January though, New years Day actually when our Old dishwasher died on us. We eventually had to replace it and with the new one, a new problem had occurred. Our Jet Dry dispenser tended to leak all the time. Now, why I didn't do anything about this issue over the 6 months that I was working at home is a mystery to me. But over the course of 2 8-5 at home appointments I got the Leak fixed.

Or so we thought...

Monday I had started the dish washer before work and let it run, when i got home that night I failed to notice that apparently it had leaked all over the kitchen floor ( I was hurrying to try and finish dinner so i missed all the signs. And then later in the week When i ran it while I was home we got the nasty surprise that now our WHOLE DISH WASHER WAS LEAKING! ALL OVER OUR KITCHEN FLOOR!

And of course then we called the insurance company and the scent their Restoration specialist over and now we get to share our kitchen with a big industrial fan, and another one under the house.

And lucky me gets to miss more work thanks to the Dishwasher.

But who knows, maybe i'll be able to get a new kitchen floor out of this huh?

Our "Anniversary"

This past Monday Brandon and I sort of past one of those odd Anniversary days. Our "First Date" took place at Applebee's on Hull Street on September 29th, 2002. 6 years ago! Can you believe that!?! We where respectively 22 and 18, and I was quite nervous, as;

1. I had never dated ANYONE older then me, let alone by 4 and 1/2 years!
2. I really liked him.

To be honest we really cant say that that date went all that well or that we "instantly clicked" mainly probably due to the fact that I was quite nervous and all i could do is ask questions and Respond "Oh. That's cool." But regardless I still really was excited that this guy had asked me out. I was on cloud nine when i got home that night thinking about it.

Eventually thought he did ask me out again and I found that it was much easier talking to him with mutual Friends and we began to be more comfortable around each other. We did end up for "Dating" for about 2 months and then kind of just stopped getting together, though we did still talk and hang out on occasions. So after I was in college we did start talking and eventually started dating again and have been together ever since.