Ups and Downs

I'm sure by now that everyone with a computer has gotten the forward called "The Dash". This is the one that talks about the dash in between "Date of Birth - Date of Death" and how you use what is in between. Lately, I have been kinda "grooving" on this. I'm sure most people want their dash to be meaningful and with huge portions of love, fun, and happiness. So do I. Right now I feel like my "dash" is looking more like a "~". I just read a blog that a friend linked me to. http://sgirl79.blogspot.com/ I have always considered myself as being a woman of faith, but where do you get that kind of strength? I'm sure she is pulling it up from her toenails right now, but still you have to admire someone like that. It is a story that will change lives.

Hubby is out-of-state at his high school reunion. He sounds like he is having a great time roaming around his old stomping grounds. It was homecoming for his high school and also for his college. Two football games and golf in one weekend....he's a happy camper. He also got to visit his parents' old home. It was a big, wonderful turn-of-the-century home. The next door neighbors had always loved it so they bought it and are now updating. Would love to be there. They had sent us a DVD before of the work in progress and it was beautiful. That home hold great memories. He flies back home early tomorrow in time to go to work. (Sigh.)

This week has been filled with so many ups and downs that my tummy is having a field day. One huge "up" came last night when we got home from my son's football game. (Which he made some amazing plays in, I might add.) We finally picked up our mail last night and in it was an envelope that contained a diploma for my older son. He FINALLY has his GED. This is a huge, life-changing achomplishment for him and he didn't even get a ceremony out of it. Just a piece of paper, that he probably has not even seen, mailed off to his parents. I'm sending him a copy and will celebrate him in all the ways that we can. I'm so very proud of him. For a kid with learning disabilities and everything else he has going on in his life, this was quite a long, hard struggle.

After being excited over that, I felt this overpowering sense that I needed to check the website that shows really basic information about him. From that I learned that he had been moved again. Still farther away. Now he is 5-1/2 hours away by car. I have no idea as to why he was moved or if this is just a stopover to somewhere else. I will not be able to talk to anyone probably until Tuesday as Monday is a holiday and then they are sometimes very vague. We haven't had any letters from him lately so it is really unsettling. I just wonder what is happening. This is such a nightmare. I wish we could all wake up.

Really didn't mean for this to be such a downer of a post. The weather is beautiful here. I have a happy hubby coming home tomorrow. No school tomorrow so I have a date with my son. And I have two beautiful, healthy sons - one here and one away that now has a GED. But he's beautiful and healthy.

Later.