SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31
DECEMBER TRAVELS AND TRAVAILS
It may be December, but it's still Fall around our place. Raking up all the leaves sure helps keep me out of the pool hall!!!
Sounding Taps at Wreaths Across America in Gilmer, Texas
Sharing Sounds of the Season with Friends
Our 2019 Christmas card
Children's Sermon Preparation
Celebrating the season with church friends
A hidden treasure...The North Pole of Texas
Lake Country Symphonic Band Concert
After-Concert Taz Ride to Sonic
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Jim's natal occasion
Another Children's Sermon
Celebrating Christmas at Yantis FBC
And On the Road Again!!!...Spent the night in Mount Pleasant...
First Stop...
Surprising friends George and Janie and sharing the sounds of the season in Germantown, Tennessee
Celebrating the season in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
And doing the odd bit of shopping...
Spending time with friends along the way
Finally in Midlothian, Virginia with Mike, Kelly, Ava, Jack, and Ben
Let the games begin!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ME AND SHE!!!
Photos from San Antonio...the Colwell family and Payton's first Christmas
On the day after Christmas Barbara felt like she might be coming down with a cold, so headed off to our regular Midlothian "Doc-in-the-Box," to get a shot. However, instead of going to the regular place, we saw a small emergency hospital and decided to go there. God must have been talking to us. Once inside, they did some general tests, then some more tests, and then told Barbara she had some serious heart and blood pressure issues and they were getting an ambulance to send her to Chittenham Hospital in Richmond. Never saw that coming...
So, the next several days were hospital for Barbara and commuting between the kids' house and the hospital.
Our plan for tonight was to go with the kids to see the Christmas lights in some of the area neighborhoods. The rest of us went, and I took photos and emailed them to Barbara.
Everyone was concerned about what was going on. One day Mike and the kids delivered flowers and projects from the kids to Barbara's room.
Ava gave us a copy of her Veterans Day assignment...
And Jack shared his report on dinosaurs...
The hospital stay wasn't all bad. We met a new friend who had been assigned as Barbara's roommate for a couple of days. Neci was wonderful, and we found that we had much in common.
It was cutting it close, but they released Barbara from the hospital only after she promised to get back to Mineola as soon as possible and make the first possible appointment with our cardiologist. At that point she was ready to agree to anything just to get out, so we loaded her up, went to the kids' house, finished packing the car, spent New Years Eve with the kids and some of their friends, made our annual phone calls to Joyce and Gary Whitaker in Houston, and Max Johnson in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and generally got ready to head out at first light on the first day of the new year.++++++++
So there you have it...closing out 2019 with family in Midlothian, Virginia.
Jim/Dad/Gramps and Barbara/Mom/Grams/Gramsie
