It has been quite a while since I last posted on this blog.  It seems strange not to be writing on Caringbridge any longer and I have not been able to start up again here.  After my Christmas Cookie Exchange today I went to get the mail and received the book that I had put together from all the Caringbridge journal entries, guestbook entries and other emails over the last 3 years.  It is a pretty good sized book.  I sat down and as I thumbed through the pages I wasn't sure that I wanted to read it all again.  Three years of life that I poured out the good, the bad and the really hard.  I don't know that I will try to read through it yet.  But there are also three years of prayers,  encouragement and such an outpouring of love from so many that I know the Lord will use those words of others again to bless me and to lift me up and remind me again of His great love for me.


I am missing Mark at this holiday time.  Not that I don't miss him every day and still sometimes think that he will come back through the door.  Has it really been over a year and a half?  It is hard to believe that time has passed so quickly.  I am thankful for all that the Lord has done in that time and for such faithful family and friends that still continue  to care for me.  I am truly blessed.