Happy Birthday TJ!

Happy Birthday TJ!  We are so glad you are part of chaos household!  We love and appreciate your calm demeanor!

                                                    

 National Neonatal Nurses Day.  I was always amazed at the NICU nurses at Women and Infants.  They held the tiniest humans in their hands and focused on keeping them alive.  When I asked how?  One nurse responded, "We save the ones we were meant to save."  They were compassionate, kind and always treated those babies as if they were their own.  One of the hardest jobs I had as supervisor - trips to the morgue.  There were volunteers who crocheted and/or sewed the tiniest of outfits and blankets for these angels.  They always left us looking like angels.  God bless these nurses!

And today is SOMEDAY!   All those things we were going to do someday - today is the day!  Paul and I are fortunate enough to be in the process of checking off our "someday" list.  And just like our learning how to scuba dive - sometimes the day pops up and surprises us!  The diving was on our way in the future "someday".  

Today we continued clearing the garage site.  I am saving the "after" pictures for when we actually finish our portion of the clearing.  I began working from the other end of the path hoping to meet in the middle soon - 40 feet left (best guess)!

And we have started talking about our return to the boat.  We have been invited to Hawks Key in January which means our repairs need to be completed in December for an early January departure from St Augustine.  Though few, we were unable to complete in the extreme heat back in June.  

The plan - keep our fingers crossed the garage is fabricated, delivered and constructed before the snow flies.  


 





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