2019 update...

Hello again,

Behind our house - they survived the holiday

We made it through Thanksgiving, now it's almost Christmas. We split Thanksgiving between Alabama and home. My brother Shawn and his family were coming to my Mom's and our youngest daughter was coming to our house for Thanksgiving. So we spent time in both places. 

Now on to how the rest of 2019 went...

Jarin spent a month in Jan -Feb visiting her friend in Washington state. She got to see cold and snow and she caught strep throat :( 

Hubby and I got to enjoy Colonoscopies a week apart. My first, the end of February and his second in March. My Dad had colon cancer in 1999 so the doctors have been on me to have it done. I put it off as long as I could. All's well that ends well, we're good.

Our new toy in April

In July, Cori changed jobs again. She gets to use her artist side in this job, designing pins and logos and such.

Hubby's late brother Mike's son got married in October. We were proud for him, he has always been a good kid / man. He was our ringbearer when we got married. We missed Mike being there.

Cori and Elliot brought us the respiratory crud at Thanksgiving and it's one that likes to linger. I'm a little bit ahead of Hubby and Jarin getting over it.

So here we are near the end of December. Mom has to have a procedure done after the first of the year. It's something they've been watching for years but time to take care of it now. Hubby's Mom had a recent fall and is in rehab to get her strength up. So please send up prayers for my loved one's in need. Thank you!

The oversized chair and ottoman we recently got rid of. I loved it but it was too big.

(Cori and Shawn's kids Madi and Noah )

Soon the year 2020 will be here and we are up to date on the years I missed.

Take care,
Sheila

Moving on to 2018...

Hello,
We made it through Halloween. In the first bunch of trick or treaters one little girl decided she didn't want candy, she wanted to come in and see what hubby was eating, lol. But she finally took the candy.

Buzzards hanging around the swans and ducks today for some reason.

There were about 4 buzzards until I went to get my camera...of course.

End of 2017...

After Dad passed Jarin and I stayed through Christmas. My brothers and their families came back at Christmas too. Jarin had a friend from Australia coming Dec 31st, Rachel. They spent a few days at Disney World since Jarin picked her up in Orlando. Jarin brought the crud back with her, then Rachel caught it a day or so later, then Mom. I thought I had dodged the bullet but then I caught it. So that delayed my leaving until Jan 15, 2018.

2018...

With still a little coughing and congestion, Jarin, Rachel and I headed back to NC. Jarin had to go back to get her car and they stayed a week up there. It snowed shortly after we got home so Rachel got to enjoy snow while she was here. We enjoyed having Rachel, she was a lot of fun and hopefully she'll get to come back soon.

So back to the move, Hubby came back up mid February for a couple of months and we finished getting the house ready. Getting rid of stuff and taking stuff to the dump or goodwill. Gave some things to friends. The movers came March 6 and 7 to get us packed up and loaded. His job got Hubby a hotel in Greensboro near work and I stayed a couple of days in town because I had Carpet cleaners and such coming after the movers left. Then I went up to the hotel in Greensboro. While there we picked out stuff for the new house we were building in Florida. A one story finally after all these years. We did our taxes and the girls taxes. Just enjoyed our time together. Thankfully our house in NC sold pretty quickly and we closed on that in May. I left NC to go to Mom's on April 9th, thinking Hubby had to stay a few more weeks but he only had to stay about a week longer.

So the next few months was me going down to stay with hubby in the camper 6 weeks or so then back to mom's, back and forth.

Then Hubby's dad started going downhill with infections and such until he passed on Aug 11. He was a retired Air Force veteran so he got the full military funeral.

We finally closed on our house Sept 21. It shouldn't have taken over 9 months to build but it did. 

Completed

The kitchen minus the fridge and stove

Our doors are dark grey

Oct 6 - 10th - Hubby spent in the hospital with pneumonia. He came home the Wednesday before thinking it was the flu but he was no better by Saturday. I told him he needed to go to the hospital - 'no, I'll be alright' - can you walk to the car or do I need to call an ambulance? 'I can walk to the car'. So we got him dressed and to the hospital. Hurricane Michael was headed this way during that time, he got out the day it was expected but lucky for us we had no effects from it. 

On to 2019...

Take care,

Sheila

The 2017 update...

Good afternoon!

We have been busy the last two weekends. We had to clean up the love bug onslaught. Weekend before last we cleaned off the front porch, door and windows. The love bugs make their way between the screen and window. The builders put the window screens in half-arsed,  just saying, so we cleaned them out, me inside - hubby outside and got the screens put in right. Then I put out a little decoration for Halloween. This weekend we cleaned the rest of the windows and trim, then cleaned the back porch. I washed the rocking chairs and tables. So glad that is done. We had our back porch screened in a couple of weeks ago. So that will keep the love bugs, frogs and birds that want to make a nest and poop on our rockers out. Doggies have a visit with a new vet today. Charlie needs a couple of shots.

Well on to 2017. It was not a good year.

On January 20 we lost Hubby's brother Mike unexpectedly. Others knew him as Steve but he was Mike to family. Sudden cardiac arrest. Still hard to believe. Hubby and Mike's son Justin gave the Eulogy, they did a great job, I wish I had a recording of it. Hubby started working on moving us back closer to home.

So around June Hubby went to Macon, Ga for a few months. The company had a place there and Lake City, FL. We weren't sure which place we'd end up but they were both about the same distance from home (Alabama).

Come August, Cori took another job and moved to Orlando, FL. Tech support and making power apps. Hubby said she could fall down and find a $100 dollars (pertaining to how easy she could fall into a good job..ha).

Then in September I followed Jarin to Mom's so she could stay there while I got the house ready to sale. I stayed a little while, stopping by Macon on the way there and staying in Macon a few days on the way back to NC. It was a little hard going back to NC by myself though.
Shortly after, it was decided that Lake City is where we were headed. Hubby came back to NC here and there. We ended up buying a travel trailer for him to stay in in Florida.

For Thanksgiving that year, Cori went to her Dad's and Jarin came up to NC. She was going to stay with me until I went down for Christmas. But God had other plans. Right after Thanksgiving my Dad took a turn for the worst and we headed to Mom's on Dec 1st. He was unresponsive by then, though he did open his eyes that night, but I don't know if he was aware. All the siblings (except my brother Ronnie who passed in 2013) were there when he passed on Sunday morning the 3rd.

    Mike

          (Cori said Uncle Mike doesn't look like he'd be funny but he is...ha.)

  Hubby, his Dad and Mike

   (Summer before we moved to Washington state)

                                     

 Dad

   Dad - Army 

  From his and Mom's 60th Anniversary celebration

       Mom and Dad were 16 days from their 68th anniversary when he passed. Love him and miss him.

To be continued...
Take care,
Sheila

It's me again...

Surprise, surprise...it has been awhile. Things have changed since the last post. But I will catch you up.

We are all doing well. No longer in NC, now in Florida. But I'll get to that on another post.

2016-
About 4 days over the 4th of July in 2016, Cori was given a chance to go to an Anime convention in L.A. to demonstrate a company's drawing tablets for computers. She owned one that she used to draw on her computer. She told them if they paid her way she would come do it and they did, paid all her expenses. While there they offered her a job and she went to China to train for 2 months, from Sept 1 to Nov 1. Yes, her mama survived... She made a few videos for them demonstrating the products and also designed and drew the booklet that came with the tablets. Here's a link to a couple of them. She didn't know they were planning to make a video in the first one so she didn't dress for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFkOYC4QAEs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO9CV1-0S7c

She became their tech support for the tablets and also helping with English translation.

After she returned in November she rescued a kitten she named Tokki (Toe-key).


We stayed home Christmas 2016 because Jarin had to work. Turned out to be the last Christmas there because I didn't decorate for 2017. More to come....

To be continued...

Take care, 

Sheila