One year ago today

One year ago
We could never have known
What was in store
For not only Daddy
but for all of us who love him
How our family would have been changed
by not only fear
but by love.

Love from our friends
Our neighbors
Our co-workers
our extended family
but mostly each other.

For each day
each hour
each moment
we've been grateful

None of us know
how many more
we will have
But we do know
that we will never again
take them for granted
or forget
to enjoy each and every one.

A special "THANK YOU" to all of you out there that continue to return to
this blog for updates, your cards and letters to Daddy, and all of your prayers and concern.

Daddy is hanging strong, he's had a pretty rough go of it since being in the hospital. It seems as though you come out of those places with more problems than you go in with. Not only did he get the flu, his antibiotics to keep the pneumonia away caused a secondary gastro-intestinal problem (I won't go into the gory details) but needless to say we needed to get control of that quickly. He got pretty weak there for a while, but now that's he's on the right meds to control the issue he's getting stronger and stronger.

Mary Anne caught him mowing the lawn this morning...........