Hey gang.  We are home.  I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed.  I do travel with my own pillow, but it is not the same as snuggling down into your own bed.  There has been so much traffic here lately - how wonderful&#33;&#33;&#33;<br /><br />Andrea - I am so sorry foy your loss.  We had a family such as that who lived across the street from us as I was growing up.  I spent more time there than I did at home.  Last time we went to Okla. to visit Greg&#39;s parents, we took Scotty with us and I went to see them<br />and introduce them to our grandson.  The mom and my mother league bowled together twice a week and I was best friends with the youngest daughter.   The older daughter is the one who taught me to drive.  As others have said, just remember the good times and know that we are all here for you.<br /><br />Tonia - I think your adoptive parents made a very good choice in their daughter.  Like I told my soon to be DIL about her daughter - Annabelle will be our grandchild in every way.  Blood isn&#39;t what makes you a family, it is hearts that do so.<br /><br />Mary Lou - glad your jury duty ordeal is over.  Sounds like the same governement agencies at work there as those who pay &#036;600 for a hammer....<br /><br />Joey - saying prayers and crossing fingers, toes and eyes that all goes smoothly and quickly in this process and some lucky child is placed in your home very soon.  There is nothing like seeing Christmas thru the eyes of a child.  I think you and David have your heads on straight and will offer so much to your son.<br /><br />Jackie - hi there.  I haven&#39;t had a chance to catch up with your journal, but I take it that you are at Betty&#39;s in LA right now.  I amgoing to try and read up on your travel log tomorrow - I always love reading it and looking at the pictures.<br /><br />Falina - it sounds like you are a lot like me.  I say I am going to rest and relax, and then I sit down and think about all the things I should be doing instead, and there goes the relaxing.<br /><br />Rose - I will be shipping all my ironing to you, so be on the lookout for a big box.  If I had known how much you enjoy it, i would have done it sooner.  No need to thank me - that&#39;s what friends are for&#33;&#33;&#33;  How is Adam doing?  I must have missed it - how did the home inspection go?<br /><br />Steve - you truly are a gem.  I think you should be giving &quot;husband&quot; classes&#33;&#33;&#33;<br /><br />Jenn - how are you, girl?  I can&#39;t even begin to tell you how much your posts and crazy pictures brighten my day.  By the way, I forgot to answer your question of some days ago about how long the bridge to South Padre Island is.  The Queen Isabel Causeway bridge is 2.6 miles long and is the longest bridge in Texas.<br /><br />Maria, Shaunna, Robert, Ed, Shari, Cheryl, Deb, Karla, Sue and any others who I have inadvertantly forgot to address or mention - hope all of you are having a wonderful weekend.  Scotty&#39;s mom called and said he is sad and missing his noni and grandpa, so I said I would come pick him up tomorrow and he could spend the night and then he and I would do something special on Monday.  That cheered him up.  Have a busy few weeks coming up.  Greg&#39;s parents arrive in a week and a half and 4 days after they leave, our best friends from Texas arrive for a week.  This next week will be spent finishing up the stripping of the wallpaper in the upstairs guestroom as our son and his friend are coming next weekend to paint it for me.  I bought some paint several weeks ago and slapped some on the wall and decided that wasn&#39;t what I wanted, so I went and got a different color and put it on an area of the wall and thought that was going to be &quot;the color&quot;.  But a hotel we stayed at on our way to Padre had a color in the bathroom that I knew was definitely the color I want, so have to go to Lowe&#39;s tomorrow and try to find that color.   What is it they say about a woman&#39;s perogative to change her mind????