There's a sign!

We finally put our house on the market after two years of planning and working. When people find out, they ask, "where are you going to move?" We reply, "we aren't sure." We are thinking temporary home, for two years or so and then revisiting the situation. But, who knows? So, the search for "home" has begun, while waiting on someone, yes, anyone to come and take a gander at our house, fall in love and think about raising their family there as we did ours. Now that the sign is finally in the yard, we are ready to make the move and hope that it doesn't take as long to sell as it did to get ready to sell. So, come one, come all, and let's get this house sold! Anyone?

Better Than Dead

Somedays the only thing you can do is count your blessings, so here goes: 1. My friend Angie likes to meet me for Thai food. 2. My office is kind of like Cheers..."Where everybody knows your name" and when people come in they know my name. (It is on the sign on my desk) for example when Athian Acuil comes in he says, "Hahlo Julie!", salutes me and then shakes my hand. When Deng Bol comes in he says, "Hahlo Julie Dawson!" and gives me a very appropriate and barely touching hug (which means he has to lean way down as he is almost 7 feet) and David Chrane says "Hello Miss Julie! with a smile the size of the sun. 3. There is chocolate in Leslie's office so that I can have a mini hershey each day (until they run out). 4. Someone is coming to look at our house on Saturday (first call since we put it on the market this week). 5. My husband was ready and waiting to hug me when I got home after a really tough day and went to the store to get my prescriptions filled and to get food to make me dinner since it is healthy meal night after weight watchers. 6. Yesterday I got to hold baby Ilon for awhile during prayer time and she just gives me unexplainable comfort and smiles. She loves me just as I am. Guess that it enough for today. But it has gotten me to thinking of many many more. I am blessed, but today, not as the man at the grocery store always tells me, that he is "truly blessed with no stress." Today I am blessed with stress. That is better than dead.

rainy thursdays

This has been a busy season of moving daughters here and yonder. I had fried shrimp on the gulf and then clam chowder in Boston within four days time. I have seen the bay of Corpus Christi out of one set of windows and the Atlantic out of another. I walked up and down more stairs than I did all of last year. It was fun to see each of them getting settled into their new environments and exploring new places. It was fun for my husband and I to go and see their new homes in such different cities. So, back to the reality of my own home and work and to empty nesting (until somebody else drops in).

December 29, 2006

So, I officially passed over. (not passed away) I am the big 50! I can just tell you that when I was 7 and playing with my dolls in my dress up clothes, I didn't ever think about being 50. This past year, while playing with my dolls and in in my dress up clothes, I have thought about it alot. Guess we just get into more reflection as we get older than snot. So, my motto for this year, "50 is Nifty!". It is all about the attitude and I am going to enjoy getting older even if it kills me!