Gloomy Days

Please keep my family in your prayers. My grandfather is in the hospital and has been for about three weeks now. He was gravely ill and on the verge of death. Only by a miracle(God's miracle) he started to get better and be on the mend. Less than a week later he had to be reintubated last night. He is back where he was a week ago, not doing well and things don't look so good.Pray that as we plan for our trip tomorrow that we would know whether or not to go. If we go I pray that he is stable while we are gone.

Answered Prayers

Well we have had a lot of things happening in the past few weeks. We received a contract on our house! Woo Hoo! We also found a house that we feel God totally put in our path and now we have a contract on. The funny thing is 3 years ago when we bought our current home we would have never considered looking at it. The elementary school that our kids would have to go to is not one we would choose to send our kids to. We did not even think twice about the schools because they is not in our future. We both agree that homeschooling our kids is where God is calling to minister right now. I have a overwhelming peace about the house and the whole situation. We have had an inspection on our house and had an inspection on the house we are buying. There was nothing shocking our concerning on either, which is always good news. We close at the end of October on both houses the same day. My grandfather was hospitalized two weeks ago with pneumonia and we started to make funeral arrangements because he was rapidly going down hill. I spent the morning with my parents last Sunday at the hospital and when I left it was not looking good. After a lot of prayer and discussion my moms family decided to have all the tubes removed from him and to sign a DNR. They all went in and had a chance to say their goodbyes. Once everything was removed, all his kids and his wife were gathered around his bed. Then suddenly he opened his eyes and growled at everyone, everyone jumped and hollered and the nurses came running. They asked him if he meant to do that and he said yes. Over the next couple of days he made great improvements and was moved out of ICU and into a private room. He still needs rehabilitation and will have to stay for 3 more weeks to help him regain his strength. Needless to say last week was an emotional roller coaster ride for my family. My sister and I took my two boys and her youngest son to a Cub Scout camp out this weekend. It was very chilly but they got to do a lot of fun things. My youngest got to shoot a bb gun and a bow and arrow. He was so excited to be big enough to do those things. They earned several belt loops while we were there to add to my oldest and start the younger ones collection. We are currently getting ready to go out of town this week with my in-laws for a much needed vacation. We are headed to Galveston Texas for 4 days. My kids are so excited to go to the beach and look for tide pools and other beach creatures. We are doing Apologia Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day and they are thrilled to gets so hands on time at the beach. Once we get back it will be full speed ahead trying to get everything packed up. Moving makes you realize how much stuff you really don't need! So I hope to be able to clean out and organize as I pack and unpack. Life at our house just seems to go so much smoother when we are organized and scheduled.