Hard to believe that today is February 28th, yesterday Ricky was 23 years old. Doesn't seem like that long when the doctor told Richard and I that he wanted to induce labor. I will never forget that day (February 27th). Richard and I were in one of the labor rooms with a wall between us and the lady in the next room. Sounded like she was having a really hard time. One time she started screaming and I looked over at Richard and he asked me "Are you sure you want to do this?" (Kinda late to decide not to have a baby). Everything went really good and we had a beautiful little boy who is now 23 years old and has a little boy of his own. Richard and I are really proud of him and will never forget the lady on the other side of the wall yelling and screaming. He has been such a blessing and are so thankful for being able to enjoy the past 23 years watching him grow up.

Ricky and Missy are both such a blessing and are growing up so fast. Missy is a junior in high school - that is really hard to believe. Richard and I were talking the other day and kinda got a laugh, we were talking about when Missy gets a boyfriend, that poor guy is going to be on the front line. Ricky and Honey are both really protective of Missy. We get a laugh every day. Honey is really protective with her. She doesn't like anyone to bother Missy. Going to be interesting to see what happens.

It is really early this morning,. Things haven't been so good the past couple of weeks. Between the dust storm that blew through a week ago Thursday setting off asthma/bronchitis, severe headaches, catching the bug that my co-workers had (one was out 2 1/2 days sick, another 1 whole day with the stuff that has been going around and another out with the stomach virus ), my Dilantin level getting off and making me really weak. It has been hard just to stand up, I was either in the bed or on the couch and not getting up unless I had to unless Richard or Missy were here (just to be safe I stayed down or if I did get up I would hold on to something).

Anyone that reads this please keep me in your prayers. I need all the prayers I can get to get my strength back and things getting back to normal.

Thank you Richard and Missy for all the love and help you have given me.