Headed to New Jersey

I am extremely excited to go see my side of the family in New Jersey. I am looking forward to being able to give back to my parents and serve them for a change. My plan is to spend the days with Roxie & the boys, bring lunch to mama at the hospital and give her a break while I sit with Papa, clean my parent's house, and cook dinner and have it waiting for my mama at night. I don't know how much longer my dad will be in the hospital - it just depends on his swallowing. They are doing more tests to see how the swallow and speech therapist can help more. Please continue your prayers for them.


Sometimes I feel so so guilty that I'm going through such a great phase of my life and my mom and dad are going through a rough patch and are probably so stressed and just totally worn out in so many areas.

I am really not looking forward to being away from Brandon for so long though. It's about 2 weeks and a few days - but like I was telling Liz - I just have to be thankful we are not separated by a war, an ocean, etc. with no contact like so many families are.

To leave with Brandon - I wrote him a love letter for every day we'll be gone from each other. I am hiding them in my drawer right now - I will leave them on the counter when we leave REALLY early Thursday morning for the airport.

They are poems, words, just my thoughts of love to him/for him. I hope he is blessed by them. They are all sealed with a little seal that says, "love" and labeled with the date he is to open them. can you tell I love him? Can you tell one of my primary love languages is words? :)

So anyway --- will you all pray for this time of separation for us? Will you pray for my dad and mom? Will you please pray for the flights up there with just raymond and me. I'm so nervous for that. Any advice for plane flights with a 2 year old would be great. I'm going to get him up at like 4 tomorrow morning - hop in the car - let him sleep (we pray) in the car - then let him run a bit when we get there - and then let him be awake for the flight. I have a new activity book, a new book, snacks and water of course.

Thank you all so much - I'm sure I'll be blogging during down time up there....so keep in touch. Love you all!!