As I sit here at my kitchen table looking out over the back yard watching the birds fly in and around eating and playing around on all the ice, its hard to believe another year has come and gone since Coady’s death. I can’t believe it has been 2 years since I have heard his voice or seen his beautiful smile. His 22nd birthday was the 7th of this month too. It just doesn’t seem possible and I can’t understand why God would do something like this to me or to him. The cold, cloudy weather makes it more difficult to handle. The ice has been pretty glistening off the trees, but it has wreaked havoc on them, we have several huge broken limbs off of our pines and cedars, one of the plum trees has been completely uprooted and has fallen over, and several other shrubs and bushes gave in to the weight of the ice. I don’t know if it did anything to my daffodils or not, they were peeping their heads above the earth the other day when I checked on everything.

With this cold yukky weather we’re having, Joe and I have been searching and searching the market trying to find a new home, but nothing seems to be cathcing our eye, maybe that is our sign from God that we should stay put…who knows…we have been doing some catching up on things that needed done. We repaired the ceiling in the foyer where the chimney leaked last spring. I thought that it would be a pretty simple task and was I wrong!!! But I honestly think that anything that Joe attempts to do takes twice as long because he doesn’t follow directions. He just isn’t a handy man at all in any sense of the word. It is usually easier for me to just do it than to ask for his help, I can always get it done faster. We started scraping the ceilings last Saturday and in the middle of it, I got a call and had to leave, so he finished. Well that was all we got done that day because he had made lunch plans with his friends and then we had to go to Lowe’s. So Sunday we cut the hole out where the damamge was, that was where the mess started….it was horrible, dust went everywhere, over the entire house, then he like to have never got the little piece cut to fit, I don’t know what was so hard about it, it was small, but he couldn’t seem to get it, after 2 days we finally got it in there and then the plastering came. I did that and it seemed to go pretty smoothly. However, once we starting looking to see how smooth all the other areas of the ceiling were, we decided that the entire ceiling would have to be resurfaced in order to get a smooth look to paint. Not to mention, if we did one ceiling we were going to have to do all the ceilings….we felt this was just pretty much an impossible do it yourselfer, and personally I didn’t think my patience would hold out and one of us would not make it. So we wound up renting a sprayer and put the acoustic back on, all in all if you disregard the huge mess, Joe did a fairly decent job of respraying…it looks ok. Now I am thinking of just putting up crown moulding before I start on the kitchen. If we are supposed to move, I just hope and pray that something comes up before I get started on another huge project. I know that once it starts getting pretty outside, I won’t want to do anything inside, so I have to keep moving while it’s gloomy and wait impatiently for the spring to get here so I can be outside again. Then I will be complaining because I have to mow each week…lol