December 2, 2006

• Back again…

  Life has been hectic lately.  And this is a really hard time of the year for us.  Thanksgiving and Christmas were always special times for us, and Lorena made them extra special.  Now it is so hard to get into the spirit of either of them.  So we exist, which is better than not…  But it is hard.

  The girls are doing well.  Stephanie is tickled because she is working the counter at Comet Cleaners.  Considering that she has an incredibly intelligent mother, it is understandable that she learned the procedures and processes in only a couple of days whereas, she was told, most new employees take a couple of weeks.  She quickly fit in with the hispanic employees when they learned that she could speak Spanish.  Now she closes up the place each night — and she is slated to open for them at 8:00 in the morning.  Best of all, she really loves the work — almost as much as she loves the paycheck.

  Lya is doing great as well.  She is running circles and spoiling and being spoiled by the Mad Max.  She is such a special little girl, and I love her with all my heart.  I only wish she didn’t have to go through all of this.

  Rainey is working as a massage therapist in a salon in Dublin — and she is doing great.  Her boyfriend’s grandmother took her on a cruise from Galveston hopscotching down the Mexican coast to Belize.  She got to do all the typical touristy swimming, snorkeling, shopping, and sightseeing.  She sent me a text message (interrupting my class) extolling the beauty of Chichen Itza.  That young lady is incredibly competent and self sufficient and independent and all the other similar adjectives that are so incapable of doing her justice.  I am so blessed to have her as part of my life.

  But that is true of all my girls, most of all Lorena.  She has been doing great.  Always better.  We will be going down for Christmas, and it will be so good to see her again.  I have not gotten to see her since last Christmas, and I can’t wait.  Our latest calls have been emotional, and I know that she is feeling the poignancy of the season as much or more than we are.  She wants so badly to come back to Stephenville to see friends and relatives, and she mentions that now each time we call.

  We finally got the computer up and running again.  Actually it is only crawling VERY, VERY slowly.  I am going to have to have Amauri look it over and see what the problem is.  Plate tectonics work faster than this thing does currently.  It has just been hard to get on here and be forced to think and to remember both the way things were and the way things were supposed to be.  Now we only have the way things are, and they really are great, no matter how deep the hurt is in my heart.  I don’t deserve the incredible ladies in my life…

  Well, it is late, and I must get to bed.  I have to be at the Region 11 Service Center in Fort Worth at 8:00 in the morning for a continuing education seminar, so I will have to leave here about 6:00 or so.  I am really looking forward to that!!!!

  So, Candy, here is a post.  Brittany said I had to put one on.  As did a ton of other folks for the past two weeks.  We will get back on here more often.  There is a lot of catching up that we must do.  Lorena’s miracle continues, and that is the important thing.  The very most important thing of all.

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