I want more

My grandbaby uses sign language to let us know when she is hungry, needs a drink and is finished etc. She uses the sign for "I want more" the most of all. When she is really wanting something, she does all the signs she knows. I love to see her signing for more. She wants more all the time. I think that God created that desire in her. To want more. I think God created that desire in me as well, to want more of Him. Life can so easily be lived without purpose, just maintaining a routine, and I am telling you, I want so much more. All the time.

Just the Two of Us

Deanie and Julie sittin in an apartment
k i s s i n g (carefully due to scruffy beard on Dean)
first comes love
then comes marriage
then comes a hip replacement
and a holiday together.

Dean on drugs

Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig

Well, we are home from the hospital and ready to sit around for 5 weeks while Dean recovers from the hip replacement. We are also now the proud owners of a potty chair, (which can also be used in the shower) a walker and a "hip kit" which includes all kinds of helpful tools for putting on your socks and reaching for items. If anyone needs to borrow them, check with us in a few months:) We took photos of the scar and will try to post later. (not really very exciting or big, but Dean really wanted to document it) Thankfully he went through the surgery well and we had a wonderful staff to take care of him. Looking forward to a twinkle in his step soon!

Out with the old, In with the new

My Dean is going in for hip replacement surgery this next week. He will be housebound for about 4-5 weeks after he gets out of the hospital. Doctor told him he was getting a "metal on metal, cemented in" new hip which should last longer than the standard hip replacements of the past. This coming after he was laid off (as of today), well, let's just say it is a season of change and definately "out with the old, in with the new". Keep him in prayer and if you want to know more on this subject: http://www.hipreplacement.com/ Tata for now. I will be out doing the wifely thing of loving on him and making sure he doesn't drool when people come to visit. :) and looking forward to some dancing in 2008!