short update

I'm certainly not the best journal writer here, but thought I would just touch base with all my precious friends.  I don't write any of this because I'm needy or feeling really down and such, just an explanation why I'm sort of "out of touch" here on FMO.  My life is in a season of extreme stress from every angle, beginning with my daughter-in-law saying she is taking the kids and moving to Florida this summer, a dear friend and co-worker who is 72 years old who cannot remember how to do anything job related that she is supposed to and continues to mess up computer entry and everything else she touches (with me having to go behind her and clean up and tell her every 5 minutes how to do even the simplest things that she has done for 27 years) and wants to continue working until the end of June, another dear friend and co-worker who is waiting on a kidney transplant, a reorganization of our praise and worship teams at church and then the everyday stresses of life in general.  I'm actually handling it all fairly well, but am extremely busy so I get behind and don't get to check in here as often or as thoroughly as I would like. 
This is just to let you all know you are always in my thoughts and prayers and I do think of you often and try to at least check in, even if I don't "hug" and "comment" as much as I'd like to be able to.  Here is a big, all inclusive group hug which I hope suffices for the present time.  Hopefully things will smooth out before too long.