Sure looks like rain today!

The sky was bright when I first got up but now the sun is only peeking out from behind some ominous-looking clouds. Maybe it is just too early for the sun to be out in full! Much to my delight, normal sleep patterns have returned, going to sleep around 11:00 or so and awake with the sun, in time to see Fox and Friends start! Joanne went to bed quite early last night as she had an early appointment with the SAM Tram, a sales and marketing tour of homes on the Westside. She will be catching a bus out that direction and ride around with other agents to see new developments and areas where she is not yet familiar.

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The news on my first day home in Orange Park brought much sadness to me. A seven-year-old boy drowned in Arlington while at a birthday party. Lots of adults and kids around, and yet, it happened. A four-year-old girl died after being forgotten in the car after the dad took the mom to work Sunday morning. I hate it when the news report end with the phrase, "No word if charges will be pressed." Besides the heavy load of grief these parents bear, to bring legal charges against anyone is just too..............In cases of gross negligence, yes, like shaken babies or child abuse, but not a simple accident.

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Sunday in Janesville, Justin spotted Jamie's stepson, Hunter, running down the hallway in the hotel, the opposite direction from the room where festivities were taking place. He took off down the hall after Hunter, Justin wearing his loaded backpack and running--not an easy task. I followed behind, seeing Hunter had gone through the door marked "Stairs". Oh no! Not only did this doorway lead to the stairs, it also lead outside! Jill and I went into the parking lot to see where Hunter was. We walked around the side of the hotel, no sign of either Hunter or Justin. Then we spotted Justin come from the lobby/carport area, no longer wearing the backpack and no child in tow. He had found Hunter in the parking lot, and had to put his arms up toward a truck to stop it. Hunter would have been run over, and with all those adults around, he still got away. Thank the Lord Justin spotted him and took off to capture him. That is how accidents happen, we all expect that someone else is watching. Justin had deposited his backpack with Grandma while he wrestled the child into submission. Yikes!

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On the way home after the wedding, Lisa and Noah saw a parachute crash to the ground in a field near the freeway. They called 911 to report it, but could not say if there was a person attached to it or not. It came down with a mighty thud, by appearances. Both of them felt ill afterward, imagining how terrible it was if a person was hurt or killed. She has been watching the news for the area but so far there are no reports about it. This was near East Troy if anyone hears anything.

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Speaking of Lisa: as I wrote a week or so ago, Lisa was having some problems which seemed female in nature. It turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst which caused her to be out of work all the week prior to the wedding, sometimes in terrible pain. To top it off, the doctor was suspicious of some of the blood work, so had Lisa come back Monday for more tests. It seems the doctor believes Lisa's kidneys might be involved, too, and sent her for a CAT scan on Tuesday. Now, we wait to see what that test shows. In the meantime, Lisa's car suffered a rupture of its own---a head gasket! It costs $900 to repair so they are looking for a new car rather than replace the broken one again. I hope and pray this will not affect their plans to spend some of the CHRISTmas celebration with us in Florida!