Home for a minute

Hi, friends- we're home for a minute again. We have been out-of-pocket for a while, and are getting ready to do it again. Last Thursday we drove to Rough River Dam Lake to spend the weekend at the lake with my extended family. However, Friday morning my grandma Phyllis had a "stroke" which we soon found out was actually a large brain tumor and bleeding in her brain. She wasn't expected to make it through the night, so we abandoned the lake and drove to Cincinnati to see her in the hospital. We spent a couple of nights there, and they moved her to Hospice care in my hometown, Hamilton. She was asleep most of the time and did not seem to feel any pain, and she reacted to us with blinks and attempted smiles, so that was a blessing. She responded to Bella and got to meet Brody before she passed. She actually hung on for a week and passed away early this past Friday morning. Please keep my family in your prayers. We did take the kids to the Cincinnati Zoo and the Newport Aquarium since it was our "vacation," and I'll post some pics of that soon. Then, we were home for a day- enough time to unpack, do laundry, and pack it back up. Taught Bible School for 2 days and drove to Lake Barkley for Sam's Soybean Board meetings T-TR and a family weekend for his ag leadership group Fri-Sun. So we enjoyed all the lodge-sponsored activities "Dirty Dancing" style. Had so much fun with the kids- Bella even learned to swim! The girls also enjoyed crafts and "working on their ping-pong game." Bella cried when we left today. Now, we're home for another day to do laundry, unpack and re-pack, and throw a huge reelection campaign fundraiser for our district rep Steven Rudy w/ an appearance from secretary of state Trey Greyson at our house. Then back to Ohio on Monday night after the party for the funeral Tuesday. It's crazy busy, and somewhere in there I have a birthday coming up. The craziest is that when I get back I'm opening up a dance studio in SOuth Fulton- have yet to blog on that- but the Broadway Dance Company is the real deal, and Open House/registration is on the 24th. Hope it will be ready! More when I get back in town. Love, E