Tonight we stopped off at the home repair big box store to pick up a few items & to price some projects that are on the list for 2016. Of course the girls went with us. They just love going on outings with us.
I had a hard time getting little miss darling out of her pajamas this morning. She just loves to lounge around the house.
It's hard to believe tomorrow is New Year's Eve. This year really seemed to fly by quickly. I guess as we get older this feeling seems to grow. As a child I always heard adults talk about time going by so fast, but never understood it. Now that I'm older I can totally relate to this. It certainly makes you realize what is truly important and what can go by the wayside. So as we prepare to enter into this new year, take time to evaluate things. Maybe you need to declutter your home or possibly your spiritual life needs decluttering...I know I can always use a good spiritual clean up...whatever it is that the Lord is leading you to do in 2016 take it to heart. God is not going to lead you wrong.
This year has been one that I care not to repeat. The first Saturday of January, my other half's father was taken to the ER wee hours of the night as he initially was disoriented but by the time he arrived at the hospital he was unconscious. I won't go into the long drawn out details, but after a blood transfusion of 5 pints, he finally stabilized hours later. This lead to many tests, misdiagnoses and more. Mind you he has 1% of working lungs due to COPD, thus requiring the dependency on his oxygen mask. So this on top of the blood loss did not make for a good combination. He spent the first 6 months of the year in and out of ICU, CCU, rehab facilities, the skilled facility and finally LTAC. The blood loss was not due to internal or external bleeding, it was later found to be caused by a broken chromosome. With this condition his cells basically made the blood but didn't know what to do with it so it never "matured" and did its job. It was akin to making infantile blood that never knew what it's adults job was, so it died off. 
August 25th Hurricane Harvey hit and devastated the area. I'm sure you've seen the news of the unprecedented 500 yr flooding that hit the area. Several friends and co-workers lost their homes, including my other half's Mother. FEMA and Red Cross have been hard hit which makes it hard on residents as claims are still going unprocessed or denied without reason; even though those denied lost everything they had, so it wasn't a scam claim. It's just devastating to see the home debris still sitting on the side of the roads and highways waiting to be picked up. All the while homes are in disrepair as they continually wait and fight for funds to help rebuild. 
Faults run thin when love runs deep.
