Hello!

Well, these colds or sinus infections are hard to throw off, believe me. Junior and Missie are still blowing their noses and Missie is raw under her nose and upper lip. Bless her heart; my heart aches for her. She feels some better but still having to blow a lot, and coughs like she has bronchitis. I hope this next week we will see an even bigger improvement in them both. Jr. went back to work Wed-Fri., thank the Lord he was able to do that.

Well, we are hanging in here. One thing we have pretty much decided is that we have to move somewhere. Preston has too many steps to walk down in front of our home; 13 to be exact, and Monday evening he fell. Or we have to build a ramp. Now to have a ramp built is $4,000. Not sure how much it would be if we built it ourselves. Also, we need another bedroom here for Missie. The foyer to the back door is just too small for a growing girl. So that takes money too, and between the 2 projects we would need a lot of money. If we can refinance our house and get extra we could do that; but not sure how that would go. So we are waiting to hear more from the Lord as far as His direction and where to move too.

I called the car place and explained about the car and they are supposed to get back to me. Still driving my friend's car; thank the Lord we have something to drive.

After 6 months of waiting, the disability resolution board in Columbia called me about Hannah coming to work for us. BUT! Preston doesn't want Kimberly to quit and Hannah to start. He has gotten used to Kimberly, and changes are very hard for him. Hannah is a long time friend and I would love to have her. But when he is just getting used to Kimberly and I taking him places and it is going so well, I don't want to rock the boat. There are pros and cons to all of this, of course. I don't want to hurt Hannah. But I cannot have Hannah and Kimberly both. If Hannah starts, Kimberly has to quit. Kimberly is an aide as well as cleaning offices. She has offered me a job, 2 nights/week cleaning the same office, and I will make $300/month. I need that money! But if Kimberly is not working for us, then she will have to do the office and I won't get my job. If we stay here, we are putting Missie in school and that $300/month will pay her tuition. So please pray the Lord will have his perfect will in this situation. Hannah has a baby, several months old, and was going to bring him some and both of the kids would enjoy him so much. Her 2 girls are in school during the day. So we have a decision to make soon. One thing is, the new position is 27 hrs/week, and I don't need or want anyone that much. I don't think I can handle someone here every day for 5 hrs. Preston doesn't need that much care now, and Missie is homeschooling, etc. So we will see what works out.

So that is the latest. Life goes on for us. It is much better in the fact that Preston is recovering so nicely and is so much sweeter and happier now, that he has a working shunt!