New house

Last Saturday we moved!!  FINALLY!!!!!  We have slowly been outgrowing our old home, and we have had our house on the market forever!  We fell in love with some new homes that were being built about 12 minutes south of where we lived.  We put money on a lot and hoped that we would sell.  Well, a few weeks later, we decided to walk through one of the spec homes they were building.  It was exactly what we wanted to build!  It had the extra bedroom, the flooring I had wanted, and they were offering it at a discounted price just to get someone in the home.  We decided to make them an even lower offer just to see what they would say.  Well, they ACCEPTED!!  WHAT??  Since our home hadn't sold yet, we had to decide pretty fast what we were going to do.  My mom and dad said they would help us out and try to help us get a renter in the home, so that's what we have done.  We are just going to manage our old home and pray that the renter is a good one, and they don't ruin that house!!  But, we have closed on our house and we are now here!! It is so beautiful! I wish I could win the lottery so I could decorate it and make it so cute right now! But I guess we will just have to slowly buy things for the home.  As soon as we aren't living out of boxes I will post some pics! Can't wait!!

Death

Seriously?  I haven't written on my Blog in over 7 months?!! Life has been so busy and I really miss writing on here.  We had some sad family things happen last month, and I think writing about it will help me clear my mind.  About 3 weeks ago, my mother-in-law was sick and in the hospital.  They couldn't find anything wrong with her, so they sent her home.  The next morning, her daughter found her unconscious and not breathing well.  The paramedics took her to the hospital and my husband arrived there just as they were trying to revive her.  They got her heart going again and she was basically put into a coma with some medicine while her body tried to recover.  It was a long few days with her in the hospital.  Once the swelling went down in her brain, they could do some tests on her to see how long she may have been without oxygen.  Turned out she was probably without oxygen for at least 10-15 minutes.  The damage to her brain was so severe.  It was determined that she was brain dead.  She was on life support and we had to decide to take her off the machines.  Who wants to make that decision?  How was I supposed to tell my children that their grandma was so sick, that she was going to die?  It was the hardest week of my life that week, and it wasn't even my own mother.  To watch my husband deal with all of that stress, it was horrible!  Once we were at peace with the decision that we made, we all gathered at the hospital to be with her.  Her 3 children and their significant others got to be in the room with her as she passed, while other family members waited outside.  I am so grateful that my dad was able to stay home and watch my kids that day so I could be there with my husband while he said goodbye to his mom.  I'm also grateful to know that we will be able to see her again.  Of course the afterlife is a big unknown, but I can feel that everything will be ok.