Late At Night

Ok, here I am at 1:15am wide awake! I am not sure what to do about this situation. My insomnia has been going on for several years, I think it is getting worse!

It has been an extremely sad week for me. First; I found out my first cousin, Julie, who just turned 50 was diagnosed with 4th stage Adenocarcinoma. It started as ovarian cancer and spread to her abdomen, lungs, colon and liver! Poor sweet Julie, she is such a positive person and has such a wonderful outlook on life! Please join my family in praying for Julie and her family. We are praying that she is not in too much pain and that she will be comforted!

Yesterday, my dad's brother Joe, passed away, he was an extremely nice person! Always doing for others and genuinely concerned for all people. Uncle Joe will certainly be missed. The services are this coming Tuesday, in Florida, and with my nephew getting married this coming Friday in IL and Emily being a flower girl we won't be able to attend his funeral. I am thinking of and praying for all of my cousins and their families.

Hopefully, my extended family members will be comforted through Prayer and through the love of their families and friends.

I also found out that my sister, Vicki, is moving to Colorado in early August to take over an existing Culver's. She will be moving to Thornton, CO along with Danielle, Craig & Jaxon. John and Jessica will remain in Sycamore, IL. I don't really look forward to being so far away from her! 6 hours was bad enough...I haven't even figured out how far apart we will be now! I am praying for her move and her new adventure! Vicki, I know that everything will work out great and that you will do an excellant job of turning that business around! We will miss you all!!!!

This past weekend we found out that my niece, Danielle is planning on getting married on October 4th or 5th of this year! Her son, Jaxon was born on 2/6th and she will be marring his dad, Craig! My sister, Karen, and I will be busy planning a shower for her in Sept. We are all looking forward to this happy event!

I have started the count down to the start of school...August 11th! I am always sad when school starts, it seems that the summer has flown by and once again I did not get spend as much time with the kids as I wanted too! It is hard to believe how old the boys are getting to be! Patrick a Sophomore...already?! WOW!!! Tyler-8th gr., Ben-7th gr. & Ryan-4th gr. In January I will even be enrolling Emily in 3 year old pre-school! I believe that she will be attending NUMPS=Newburgh United Methodist Preschool...I am not overly impressed with the Catholic preschools in the area. Emily will be attending public school instead of Catholic grade school, so I don't think it really matters where she attends preschool! I can't believe how times jets by!

Tom and I discussed tonight that maybe I should try my hand at writing a book. I started writing 2 books several years ago, but I gave up way too soon. I have ideas for a romance novel, a pre-teen book and a children's book! What does anyone think? I think I am just going to go for it! Maybe it will take me committing to all of you in writing so I will follow through with a book. (Just a thought)

I suppose that I should try and shut my mind down now so I can try, try, try to fall asleep...sometime around 3:30am or so!

Hope you all are well,
Kristin