Right or Left? Maybe you should just flip a coin!

“Life ain’t always what you thought it ought to be!” We all have plans for our lives…if not plans at least ideas of what we do and do not want. I know I had a plan of the direction I wanted my life to go, but all it took was one life changing event to put a stop to everything. One moment I am heading home from work, and the next I am loading my car of whatever belongings can fit and driving to Colorado. Suddenly all those things that once mattered no longer do and you find yourself in the strangest place…you don’t know anything. The only thing I found to do is trust in God and follow my heart. I don’t know what tomorrow will bring as I once did (or at least thought I did), and I certainly don’t know what a year from now will be like. I’ve lost my mother at a young age, which is something that you think will never happen to you. That is a situation that only happens to other people, but not to you. It’s a surreal feeling! I know she’s up there though re-planning my life for me. The first thing I know she’s going to do is find me a guy. That’s how she was…she just wanted me to find someone and to be happy with them. I mean when you have a mother that gives a guy your name to find you on Facebook you know she’s trying to tell you something. At least I can carry on knowing I have God making sure to give me a fulfilled life and my mother right next to him giving her input. I guess all I can say to you is if your plan is disturbed maybe the direction you were heading was wrong. I’m no expert, but believing in ideas like this is what gets me from one day to the next. You always need to give your life meaning…otherwise it isn’t a life worth living! I love you all and please smile because you can…it’s something I tend to forget lately!

Now to get to what you probably came looking for. My dad is doing great. Still a very stubborn man, but a healthy one. He looks great and is regaining movement in his right arm. Mentally strangers probably wouldn’t think a thing, but to us we do see a few things. Such as his OCD on making our dogs lay down. The poor things can’t even make a move without getting yelled at. At this point it’s just little things that we notice and are thankful that he has recovered to point he’s at!