My recap of 2010

I do have so many things to be thankful for in 2010. My husband survived a stroke from Christmas 2009. He had to retire early, but that will be just fine.

I have enjoyed 6 more grandchildren birthdays. My, but they are growing so fast!!!

I was FINALLY hired full time!! Started subbing in 2007. Weird how it goes. Took me 3 years to get full time, watched another that just started late last year go full time at the same time I did. Ah well, at least I get paid year round now.

I still have the blessing of 3 beautiful daughters, they have brought me so much joy through the years, and blessed me with 7 grandchildren!!

I loved watching their faces when we went to the zoo, TWICE this year!! Well, Heather, Noah, and I snuck off once by ourselves...shhhh! LOL Thats okay, I know Raven took hers sereval times too.

Heather has one of the most amazing loves I have ever been blessed to witness!! They seem to have a fairy tale marriage, but like all marriages there are good times and bad. It's been 2 years since they lost their oldest son, Austin. My first born grandchild. But, together, they are pulling through. They still have the blessing of Noah, he lights up all our lives!! The things that boy can come up with!

Wendy, ah Wendy, she has had a rough road to travel the last year. But she has straightened out her life, she has her girls back....praise the Lord!!! She is on the right track now, trusting more in God than she ever has before. I know He will see her through!!

Then there is Raven, the baby of the group. She LOVES it too!! She has her 2 children, Bryanna and Allen, 13 months apart. She is working and going to school too. She is a GREAT single parent!! Her divorce isn't final yet, but hopefully will be soon. She has had a hard road too.

All 3 of my girls have had a rough 2 years now, but I pray their lives will contiue to improve with the Grace of God! I pray their hard times are behind them for good, that only GOOD things are in store for them the rest of their lives!!!

I finished out the year on medical leave, had surgery on my back. It seems to have stopped that terrible pain that would shoot up and down my legs!! I still have pain, yes, but that was the WORST of it!!!

Now, if I could just get my head straight! I look at all the things I have to be SO thankful for, I have been SO blessed!! The Lord is Great, SO loving!! I know all these things. My heart understands it all, it accepts it all...the good along with the bad. Now if I could just get my head wrapped around it all, get my mind to accept what it wants to refuse.

I have so much to be thankful for this past year, yet I don't look forward to the coming year at all. I know I have Blessings waiting to unfold. I have a wonderful family I AM so thankful for!! I will survive the coming year day by day, just as I did this last one.

I will attempt to Pay It Forward some more this coming year in loving memory of Austin. He so loved to make people smile, to brighten their day, to to lessen their load. He was a lesson in life all in himself, all in his 14 short years he had to teach us. He was a Blessing to behold!!

I will end this year with another anniversary married to the man I love more than I could ever say. We have been together 27 years, but only been married the last 11 of those. We have had some beautiful times together. We have weathered some bad storms. We have come out the other side...together!!! I love you Carl Evans!!