Today is Wednesday and am I ever ready for Thursday afternoon to get here. Richard has been out of town at school relating to his job and will be back Thursday night. It is really hard to believe that we have been married 27 years. It seems only like yesterday I got a letter in the mail and that night we talked on the phone until 3 am about getting married. I have the letter put in a really special place where nothing will happen to it. Seems like when he is gone the word sleep is not allowed in this house. I go to bed at night and wake up ever hour and hear the smallest noise in the house. Last night I had the timer on the tv set for 120 minutes thinking that maybe with the noise I would go to sleep. But that didn't work very good. I turned the tv off and then noticed that the screen was glowing. I will be so glad when Richard gets home and so will Missy. She is counting the days/hours until "dawg" (their nickname for each other) get home along with the days/hours until bubba, April and DJ get here (they will be here Friday).

I have been so blessed with such a wonderful husband and children. I often catch myself thinking about what my daddy would think of them if he was alive today. He got killed on a job related accident when I was 10 months old. I can remember hearing my mother and grandmother talking about when I was 6 months old and had a really bad seizure and the doctors stayed by my side working with me from 6pm to 6am without leaving and finally told them that was all they could do. My grandmother had people praying for me all over (she had contacted her church and they started a prayer chain.) and here I am today blessed with such a wonderful family. When my father and grandfather got word of what happened they both left work and drove straight to the hospital (they were working out of town). By listening to mother and gramdma talk daddy was really a wonderful person. Mother showed me a picture she had of a crow sitting on a post and smoking a cigarette, does that seem real? but it is. She has talked about all the different things daddy would do and that he would always put his family before anything he wanted to do. I catch myself wishing that he was alive today so that he could meet Richard and my little family and of course my 1st grandson. I know that he would be really happy. I remember when we (my brothers and myself) were growing up mother would take us outside at night and show us a star and tell us "that is your daddy looking down at you". Growing up I would go outside and look up at the sky and there daddy was looking down on me. Even today, I do the same thing. I remember showing Ricky and Missy the star and tellling them the story about it.

Daddy if you were only alive today you would be so happy to see what a wonderful family I have been blessed with. I know that you are always looking down on us and know what a wonderful family I have. My mother tells me that Richard has me spoiled rotten and I am the first to admit I am. We have a little joke between the three of us (Richard, mother and myself) that whatever Lisa wants Lisa gets. When we first got married, Richard and I, he would send me a plant every month on the 30th (we got married August 30, 1980). At one time I had over 50 house plants in the little house we were living in. I can remember this one plant I saw at Shirleys Florist and fell in love with it. It was an elephant ear ivy and was over 6 feet tall. He told me one afternoon that I needed to come home from work and get home as soon as possible. I asked him why and he told me that someone was coming over (never said who) and when I opened the door what did I see. Yes, it was the ivy I saw and told him about. It was doing really good until we moved into the house we had built. Seems like no plants like to live in this house. Probably because it doesn't have alot of windows to let the sun in.

Well, guess I better go and try to get some rest. Richard I can't wait till you get home Thursday night so that I can sleep all night.