Drifting

It has been so long since I have checked my blog that the web page didn't even come up when I started to type it in.

Life has been fuller than usual lately.

Christmas was absolutely wonderful. We spent it at my parents' home. It was the first time I had been home for Christmas since I was 19 years old and the first time they have had children in the house on Christmas morning in years! It was so much fun!!

My cell phone has been in pieces for quite some time now, which seems to cut my communication with friends a bit. Family continued to call. (They always do.) Christmas cards were light this year (most came from Lance's family), but that's okay. We sent out 9 opposed to our usual 90 this year. I did send our Christmas letter via email for those that I had, but response to those were light as well. It tells me that we are all a bit too busy or maybe that life tends to drift us back and forth to one another over time, like a tide to the shore. I still think of my friends and distant family often and hope they are well.

Times are tough right now. I have faith and know that they will get better. One house will sell, one renter hopefully will pay rent, another will financially disappear, that kind old man at the mall will find a friend, and our girls will return safely.

Hope remains. It always does.