I can't remember the last time I checked and wrote something on here, but I know it's been a long time.  Ok, so I'm a bit lazy and should look, but I'll do that later.  So much has happened in the meantime, besides life just passing me by and I'm just standing there going, huh?  My husband is home from Washington and is now retired from the Air Force.  He works for his own pest control company and he is still playing the guitar (as beautifully as ever) and we are praying for some more doors to be open for that.

Our daughter who lives in Atlanta at present, is moving back in with us.  We are helping her move this Saturday so it's going to be a very loooooong day, considering we have to drive 5 hours to Atlanta, move all her stuff (oh and she gets this truck that does NOT have a ramp on it, what's up with that?) then come back home, all the while trying to keep an 18 year old non verbal autistic  young man happy.

But, at least by going and doing all that on Saturday, I can enjoy watching Shark Week on Sunday evening.  Ok, I was going to put a smiley face here, but my freakin' computer won't let me!  I'll blame it on dh since it's his laptop I'm on.  Ha!  Anyway, looking so forward to Shark Week, oh yeah and having my daughter home too.  Yeah, that too. 

Starting to get ready for school again.  The kids here don't start until August 20th, but I am wanting to start this next week (I'll call that my birthday week)  I'll be getting much,  much older on the 5th of August.  So guess what our first thing in science is going to be about?  Oh I dunno, maybe about sharks! lol

Anyway, more news.....our 18 year old autistic son Marcus is moving out.  He is going to a group home sometime in August.  While this news is wonderful and much, much awaited for, it will be sad not having the 'boo' under the roof at night.  Believe me, I've been through so many emotions since this all started.  Happiness, sadness, etc.  He's just a big part of my life and now it's going to be gone.  I am hoping that this will give me and Nathan a chance to do more things together without having to worry about being home at a particular time waiting for Marc to come home. 

I have been busy refurbishing his furniture.  It was looking pretty bad, so I repainted it.  About killed us with the fumes too.  But hey, we're alive!  And I did ventilate, but dh didn't agree.    Ok, so I probably killed some of my brain cells that are desperately needed. 

Also got Marcus signed up for disability since he's 18 and it will help pay for the home he's going into.  I have to take him to another doctor for more medical proof of his disability. (yet I couldn't bring him into the social security office because he literally screamed his head off as he didn't want to be there--yeah, that's another story in itself).  But, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

My main point to all this is that we've waited, having been waiting for some years for a residential home for him and we've prayed and prayed and now it's happening.  Autism awareness is on the rise and that is opening more doors for various homes to open up.  I told the director that it was a God thing, because in the past, there has just flat out been no money for these types of things and now the fountain is just flowing.  So we are praising God in all things big and small.  Every time my husband sells a new account, or gets an extra gig, or something, we are always thanking the Lord.  He has been blessing us, even in the midst of the stress of Keith leaving the military and venturing into the 'real' world, us making alot less money and with all this stuff in our lives coming up.  HE is the one to be thanked, and glorified and praised!  God bless you all, and I'll try to be better about writing.  Either that or I may have to move to blogspot as well.  lol  Lots of people on there I know.