Happy New Year!
Well, I got this blog back up and running. I hope we can use it as much as we did last year. It's been such a great and blessed year. Honestly. My friend, Kip, said "Do you know how lucky you are??" And yeah - I do know it. We just came back from a trip to see Bryant and Kristie. Charly, Jess, Stacey and Jake were with us. And though the time is never long that we have to spend together, I am thrilled at the times we have. I have lost over 80 lbs. now. I am so glad I had the surgery in the summer. A lady named Lisa said to me a day or so after the surgery "you are on the other side of the fence now" and wow! I am. So much I can do now that I couldn't do before. Mostly I can play with my granddaughter. She can sit on the lap and we can read books or play the piano and sing. I can't wait to do those things with my little grandson. I can't wait to just sit on the beach and build sand castles with them. What a miracle has happened in our f