Todays thought...an update...on life, love and the pursuit of happieness.

So I know it has been like ever since I've blogged...like 3 months now, I know, I know...bad me huh? Well I have been very busy lately.

For starters, my mama (tough as nails) got her Cochlear implant. It gets turned on next Friday and with any luck she will be able to hear for the first time in her life. Go You Mama!

Secondly, Pooh Bear and I just celebrated our third anniversary. Scary huh? We went up in the mountains and had a fabulous time. We met some friends of ours (I will reffer to them as Appre), went to an amusement park and even went fly fishing. We had SO MUCH FUN! It was all a blast.

And we've determined that some of the most interesting people always come your way when you are on vacation. Fabulouse people who can just say something to make you shine inside. Prime example, Pooh Bear and I decide one night to eat at this seafood place just down the way from our hotel. While there we start talking to a couple of people setting next to us. I would have figured them mother and son but they were co-workers. They were accountants. Not the most interesting of jobs I know, but if you're good at it and the money pay's...hey, ya know...why not?

So we procede to tell them our story of how we met and how everthing happened so fast and the lady we were speaking with (I'll reffer to her as Carolina) proceded with a very unique story that her grandmother had told her. Of course I made sure she didn't mind me blogging this but she had said that Pooh and I must be eachothers pull apart. I had never before heard that term and was quite inquisitive as to what it meant as I'm sure you can imagine.

Carolina proceded to tell me that the old story of her grandma's was told that before Adam and Eve, there were two souls roaming attached at the hip. Soul mates. Well, when God made Adam and Eve he discovered it was too hard for two physical beings to walk with four legs thus pulling them apart. That pull apart of course was the soul mate of one to another and every once in a while, someone in this life gets truely blessed and finds their pull apart.

That was just so beautiful to me that I had to share it. And it made me feel that much more blessed that I fouund Pooh Bear. So to you Carolina...thanks so much for talking to us and for telling me that fabulouse story! We had such a good time talking with you that night.

Then the last days of our trip I got a call from my mama. As I previously mentioned in the archived 3/8/04 blog, my mama finally found her estranged sister who had been missing for 35 years. Quite a feat huh? Well we went through some trying times with her and found in November of '04 that she had an infection that started in her heart and proceded into her lungs and brain. We found out a couple of months later that the doctors at the hospital had misdiagnosed her and she had brain cancer that had progressed long enough that it was inoperable and was spreading. We were told then it was only a matter of time.

Thursday I got the call that Oklahoma had passed. Such a short amount of time we had been able to be with her, and talk to her and find out about her. The blessing of this story I guess is the fact atleast my we know where she is. After 35 years of searching, we know where she is.

So to you Oklahoma, I say, you will be in our hearts forever. Thanks for coming here and thanks for allowing us to be a part of your life even though it was so brief. I do wish that we had more time to spend with you but the memories that we have in our hearts will last forever. I love you.

And I say to you Appre, I had so much fun with yall last week. Thank you SO MUCH for the great time that we have had and thank you for being the friends that you are. We are so blessed to have yall in our lives. Hopefully we will have many more vacations to go. We love yall. Your true people and true friends and we are so grateful to have you in our lives.