Good Rainy Morning!

Our week started out so good, and ended badly, at least emotionally.

Monday we drove 3 hours north into southern Illinois and met my sister and sister-in-law, who drove 3 hours south, for lunch. It sounds pretty crazy to drive all that way for lunch, but the town we go to has several nice restaurants and is almost exactly halfway between our homes. We've done this several time to meet my mother, and we usually have a grandchild or two with us, but this time it was an "adults only" time. My brother was unable to come since they had just moved and he didn't want to leave the dogs alone in a strange house for several hours. We were tired by the time we got home and it did take us a couple of days to recover!

While we were on the way home I got a text that Ryan's father-in-law had been admitted to ICU and it was not looking good. He's been ill and in a nursing home for a long time. We stopped by the hospital as we got back in town, only because I saw Ryan and Amanda in the parking lot. They stayed with us Tuesday night so they wouldn't have to drive the hour back home and then back the next morning. I kept them in coffee, replenishing as needed. He passed away either late Thursday night or early Friday morning. I got the text a little after midnight.

The funeral is Monday with the visitation Sunday evening so all flowers had to be done today. Because the church is a little country church, nothing could be sent to the church. I've been to the florist this morning and got an arrangement from us, and Amanda asked if I could get some white roses to be put in the casket at the end of the service. They were out of roses so we settled on carnations, but with baby's breath and some greenery, it is a nice bouquet. They will pick them up sometime this afternoon.

We also had news that Emily's husband had an abnormal EKG yesterday, so he's being set up with a cardiologist in Memphis. The one he is seeing is the first one I saw after Bill's last heart attack. The first words he said were "He's still alive". Although we don't agree on which higher power, we both agreed that a higher power was at work!

Bill has said that he's been tired all week and his appetite has been off some. He said it was just from everything going on the first part of the week, so I hope that's what it is. He said he felt OK other than that. I've got to get him moving some again, or he's not going to move!

I think that's the highlights of the week, hopefully next week things will settle back down some. Have a good week!