Catch Up

Wow! A lot of time has passed since I last logged into this blog! Since then, we have moved back to Florida from Tennessee and have been back for exactly 1 year today! Since my return a lot has happened within our family. We lost our beloved husky, Vegas, two weeks after returning to Florida to cancer. To say it broke my heart would be a major understatement. Frank suffered a second stroke about a week after losing Vegas. This one left him with some permanent residual issues. My grandmother's health had been declining rapidly the last year, and this year she succumbed to a massive heart attack and passed on exactly one month from us bring hospice into the house. Losing my grandmother has been very hard for me, while she was not a saint by any means, I loved her very much and she was my guiding star when things became rough in my life. I am grateful that I was able to spend as much time with her and help provide her care at the end. Eventually I am write about her journey in that last month, right now I find it difficult to do so. In fact there have been several time I have picked up the phone and start to dial her number, before sadly remembering she is no longer and earthly being. I do feel her presence from time to time, (not that I wholeheartedly believe in ghosts or that I think she is haunting me, there is just a strong feeling that her energy is near.

In December of last year, after some debate we decided to add a puppy into our family. Losing Vegas so unexpectedly,the fast changes in our family structure with the two older girls remaining in Tennessee, and Frank's medical issues had me feeling as if I was floundering around. Diesel, a spunky cream colored Pekingese, has brought much joy and love back into my heart. He was born on September 14, 2012 and came home to us on December 7, 2012. I adore him and he adores me!

2012 Also brought forth a big change for me, as I decided to bite the bullet and lose the weight I had been carrying around since being discharged from the military in 2009. I went from 145 to 209 at my highest. (Dec 31, 2011). I worked hard in conjunction with my family physician and by June 2012 I was back down to 145, and by December 2012 I amazed myself weighing in at 125. It was a long journey, and while I do still bounce from 120 to 135, I am content and happy with the way I look and feel.

I also took the LSAT in June of 2012, I made a decent score and have had several law schools interested. I am still working on my BS in Business Admin and have 9 classes left. Scheduled graduation is May 2014. Then it is on to law school.. woohoo! So this now brings us up to date...