Where have I been?

Last week my wife had brain and spinal surgery in Milwaukee Wisconsin. There were so many friends, family and co-workers who wanted to know what was going on that I made another blog for that surgery. Here it is if you are interested... http://www.CloerFamily.com

So even though I wasn't blogging here I was blogging there. It's funny I've had this blog for several years and only gotten a few comments but on that blog we got over 100 comments in less than a week!!!! This is the way to communicate in our present world. Calling all those people was unreasonable, emailing them would be possible but they might not get them, blogging gives everyone who wants to know the opportunity. Plus people can see the wonderful comments left by others. I've handed that blog off to my wife since she will be stuck at home for the next 5 or 6 weeks.

Overall we feel like the surgery was an amazing success, even miraculous.

Completely unrelated -
Name your top song from each decade you were alive. So if you were born in the 60's your list would be 5 songs long, if you were born in the 70's you only get 4 songs. You get the point. I'll have my list tomorrow. If you have a special memory tied to a song, share it.

Ron

The good news, bad news and government plastic.

After about 3 months of work, dust and interruptions the downstairs of our house is finished. Drywall up, painted, light fixtures moved, replaced, downstairs kitchen added, furniture moved in. It's all done. Since i work from home this is especially exciting for me. I figured it up that in the first 2.5 months of living here there was 1 day where I was the only here during the day. 1 day out of 75. You sometimes hear horror stories about bad contractors, we didn't have that. They did a great job for us and they came in at budget. Oh yeah, at budget. *happy dance* I would recommend them, which is saying something. That's the good news.

Now that all the remodel is out of the way you would think life would be smoother. No. On Sunday we leave for Milwaukee and Tina's brain/spinal surgeries. I routinely see Tina's eyes get watery but she won't say anything. She's trying to be tough. My woman doesn't like to admit weakness. She has always been a no excuse type person, fight through it, don't give in. Well, when you have brain surgery you HAVE to admit weakness. She will be on her back for about 5 days, in the hospital for 7, off work until NEXT YEAR. This next 2 months will be the toughest in her life. But I'm confident that she will show once again that she is stronger than most.

After those two months she should have NO symptoms. The headaches, the blurry vision, the dizziness, etc, etc will be gone. That's just amazing to me. Since I'm always looking for the humor in things I'm going to tease her (in a month or so) about having a "nothin' between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic" It will be funny once she's all healed up.

The tendency is to complain about this chaos but isn't that how life happens? When you have a wife (or husband) and kids and pets and house and cars you're committed to a chaos filled life. It's in the job description. The real trick is finding stability in your life. You need to find something or someone who is the same yesterday, today and forever? Read Hebrews 13 for a hint.

I'm going to write about Olivia soon, she needs the spotlight.
Ron