Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Open Up Again

My last post was in August 2010, that is a long time ago. since then, some VERY life changing things have happened that made me not want to write, not want to put my thoughts down on paper and go back to read the hurt over and over again. I am back. I am going to try this whole blog idea again. Most people know, my brother passed away in Nov. 2010 and my dad passed away Dec. 2010. As you can imagine November and December are not my favorite times of the year now. I get by, I fake it, I think about them often. In August 2011, I had major surgery to remove 3 feet of my small intestines. My crohns disease has done very well since then. I have also been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia since. I am in pain most days, but for the most part, I don't let it stop me. I have had a few surgeries since, I am even having one on Tuesday. Hopefully, this will be my last one for a LONG time. On top of the bad things, we have had a lot of fun in the last 1.5 years as well. We have purchased a business. I work the business on my off time from work. My work has been very sweet and allows me to work from home at night. I am not sure I would be able to work at this time if I didn't have that available to me. I am very grateful. Chad has switched jobs, he works for INDOT. He loves his job and it has allowed him to be home with me more, sometimes that's a good thing ;) We had a great visit with Cat this past summer and look forward to seeing her more often. This weekend, Maria, Chad's mom, is coming into town for her birthday. We are takinng her to dinner for her birthday and going to hang out with family over the weekend. We are very excited to have her all to ourselves for a week. We have had some hard time the last two years, but we are still very thankful for what we have. We are very thankful for God and all he has and is doing in our lives. This is just an overview over the last years. I will try to update more often and focus on remembering the great things in our lives. Now that things are looking up for us, I will be writing more and more. I promise the future posts will be more positive, I just needed to fill in the blanks for the last couple years.