So, Braner Party of 7 is down! Hays is gone. Maggie has some weird virus that looks like a nasty mix of chicken pox and poison ivy that has been creeping (at a fast pace) across her body for the past two days. . .added to that is throwing up and pain. Tiki and Dax both have fevers and tummy aches. Gabby isn't sick (yet?) although she really wants to be because of the special attention the others are getting. And then there is Andy with his messed up neck which seems to be getting worse every day. This is a down in the dumps post, but we would love your prayers! Such amazing things are happening here at Camp Kivu and I think the Enemy is just trying to get us down by striking us (me) where it hurts. . .HOME!
Andy proposed during a curtain call of Me and My Girl , a musical in which he played an old man who went most of his life without telling the woman he loved that he loved her... Twenty-three years ago today Andy asked me to marry him. . . . he was my best friend and I thought he was the love of my life. Should I have said no? I don't know how many times I have now been asked a version of that question in the past couple of years and I cannot count the number of times I have asked myself that question over the past decade, but it is a dumb question with no great answer. If I would have said no 23 years ago, I would have saved myself from so many tears and so much pain, but I would have missed so much laughter and so many exciting firsts and I would be such a different person. . . . Because of this day, 23 years ago, I am who I am and I have so much to be thankful for. Because of this day, 23 years ago, I have five of the best kids on the planet. They are t
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