My Parents

My Mama & Daddy were divorced when I was 10. Both remarried. My step mom Ann passed away in 2003. My stepfather is still alive and with my Mom. I wanted to share this picture of my parents comforting each other, mourning the loss of their daughter, my sister Susan. It was so sweet and so comforting to me and my siblings to see this. How can they handle burying a child? My heart breaks for them. My Daddy will be going into a assisted living this next week. Please keep my parents in your thoughts and prayers as they are mourning. My heart is broken.


God Bless~
Debbie

Home

I wanted to let everyone know that I am back home from my sister's funeral. I am extremely mentally & physically exhausted. I will never recover, I don't think from her death. She took part of me with her. I will try and blog about it soon. Please pray for me to get some strength back, as I am very weak right now.

Thanks to all who have left me wonderful uplifting messages. They mean the world to me, you'll never know how much. I love you all.

God Bless~
Debbie

My plans to attend my sisters funeral

I will be flying out of Dayton, Ohio tomorrow afternoon, along with my daughter Carrie to Charleston, SC where my Mom and older sister, and baby sister live. We will then drive 2 hours into Aiken SC on Sunday, where we will stay overnight. Susan's Memorial service is Monday, not sure of the time or details yet. My older Sister, Carol, got mine and Carrie's tickets, as they did not want me traveling alone in my health conditions. David is staying home to tend to the dogs and fish and keep the home fires burning.

I can not believe my sister is gone. She is 2 yrs my younger and we were best of bud's growing up. I am having a very hard time dealing with all this. I am worried about my Mom. She is taking this very hard. My Dad which lives in a nursing home in Columbia SC will be attending also. I haven't seen my Mom or my Dad since my step mom's funeral in July 2003. I wanted to see them very badly as they are both not in good health but this is not how I wanted to see them, or visit Charleston, my home. Please pray for my parents as they say goodbye to one of their children. I can't even imagine that pain. It's painful enough to say goodbye to my little sister.

Here is a pic of My Daddy, and his 4 children. I have a half sister also not included in this photo, that is my Mom's and stepdad's daughter. From left to right is: Carol, my oldest sibling, Then Susan (the sis that just passed away), then my older brother Donnie, he's the tall man, and my sweet Daddy, and then ugly chubby me. This was taken summer of 2003 at my stepmom's funeral.

Here is a pic of my sweet Mama.


I want to thank those who have offered their condolences. It's means so much to me. The 1st thing, after telling my children, was I wanted to get online and talk to my blogging family. Ya'll mean a lot to me. I love you all.

I will be flying back into Dayton around 7pm on Tuesday. Please pray for us to have a safe flight. I am so scared to fly, but this is a necessity, so I will have to suck it up, and try and be brave. I will be back blogging as soon as I can.

I Love you all!!!!!!

God Bless~
Debbie

Prayers Please!!

My sister Susan, who lived in Augusta Ga, died this afternoon. She was 50 yrs old and committed suicide. She left behind, her husband, a daughter , a son, and a grandson. She also left her Mom, her Dad, 3 sisters and 1 brother. Please pray for my strength, and for my families strength. My Mom is not dealing well. Right now, due to funds, I am not sure how I will get down there. She didn't have insurance, so we don't have the money for burial and trying to figure all this out. I am beyond sad. My head hurts, my heart hurts, everything hurts. I came here cause I need my blogging family to pray for us please.

I love ya'll.

God Bless~
Debbie

I Won, I Won!!!!

I entered for a give a way on Helen's blog, Reddirt Woman and I won! Can you beleive that? I won a beautiful necklace and earring set she made. How special is that? Made my day, my week, my month!! Yippee, can you tell I am excited? Thank you so much Helen. If anyone wants to read a good blog, go on over to Reddirt Woman's blog. She always has interesting reading.


Once again thanks Helen. I will cherish my prize. Here is a photo that she had on her site. It's my prize now!!

Fall is sure here. We had heavy frost last night with 32 degree temps. Oh I am so not ready for winter, but do love the sites and smells of fall. I smell fireplaces going, and see pumpkins all over. The leaves are gorgeous, but falling, and my yard needs raked, which neither David or I can do. The temps also cause David's breathing to not be so good. He may have to go back out of work on disability for a bit. He has a appointment with his pulmonologist on Tuesday. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Financially it's very tough.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and will have a wonderful Monday. Wonder what Hallie will have on her Morbid Monday's blog tomorrow? I always wait to open it, after I eat Breakfast! LOL. Love you Hallie, but sometimes Morbid Monday's make me not want to eat, which is a good thing, but not when you have to take insulin and eat...LOL.

God Bless~

Debbie