If any of you are familiar with Joyce Landorf Heatherley, you may know about Irregular People. Irregular People are those individuals, usually kin to you, who are blind, deaf and mute. These are not physical maladies, they are emotional. Irregular people are incapable of hearing or acknowledging anything you do in a positive way. They are incapable of saying anything positive to you and what they do say is usually very hurtful and downright unfair. They are also blind in that they can see nothing good in you, only your shortcomings. If these people were not kin to you, you could do something about it - like spend little time with them. However, since they are more often your father, mother, brother, sister, inlaws, and the like, you are stuck with them. Most of the time, Irregular People are not identifiable by others. As a matter of fact, they take great pains to conceal this irregularness from everyone except the one to whom they are irregular. How do I know all this? Because I have had an Irregular Person in my life for all of my 62 years - my mother. Does anyone out there understand?

Well, I've been busy, as I have said.  It seems I spend a lot of time preparing for one Bible group or the other but I LOVE it!  God's Word is so precious to me because it draws me closer to Him.  I feel so fortune in this regard.

However, my mother has been very ill for months.  She has been in a nursing home for several years now, but took a turn for the worst about 3 months ago.  Suddenly, though not totally unexpected, my brother got a call to go to the hospital immediately (Mother had been there for a few days and seemed to be improving).  When my brother got there, she was gone.  Things have been difficult for so many reasons - what could have been, should have been, would have been and right now it is too difficult for me to write any more.

The morning of mother's funeral we got a call the my DH's brother-in-law passed away in San Antonio.  It was just too much for us to go - physically and emotionally. 

While my children were here we learned that our water heater (on the guest side of the house in the attic) was releasing smelly water.  Long story short - bacteria, drain water heater, refill, drain ..... put foot through ceiling.

When it rains, it pours.  Pray for us and please understand the extended absence.

Thigh