Friday, 02/14

     Wheels!  We finally have wheels!  Rick's car is repaired and safe ( Huge HUGS and thanks go out to Bill and Dar.) Austin and I get to visit Mom.  Hooray!  Shower day!

     AND Happy Valentine's Day.   Austin gave Mom a valentine card he'd made, and shared his bag of valentines with her - showing her all his treasures.  Austin also got snuggle time with Mom when she put herself back to bed after her shower!
     Today, Valentine's Day, is the anniversary of Rick and Caren - when they first met.  Their love continues still and has blossomed into this wonderful entity called a family.  We are one.
The past few months have been especially trying.  House fire, head-on collision/Caren ejected, loss of income, loss of vehicle; Katie left for college and Mary and Kane went for six months to their other house.  Through it all, we are abundantly grateful to be a family, like a "tree of many branches we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one."
     No matter which direction we grow, regardless of the changes we face in life - be they small changes or catastrophic changes - we are still family.
     And we are abundantly grateful for the enormous love we share.

     Happy Valentine's Day!