Being sick is not fun!! I am sure that you already know this. I just thought I would reinterate since I have been sick for the past 5 days. I am feeling much better today and even went back to work.

Mason was sick for only a day and was able to go to work this evening also.

Jesse came home this weekend and spent very little time at the house. She went tailgating at the Razorback game in Little Rock and watched the game. I think she got in around midnight. We all went to church Sunday but I was so sick, that we left right after communion. So needless to say, I didn't get to spend any time with Jess. She will probably be home this weekend too so I will get to make up for it. She is liking college from what I can tell. I think she is a bit bored. She has gone from being in high school all day and then running to work and then out with friends to going to 2 or 3 classes a day and that is it. She doesn't have alot of friends to run around with at college yet. I am hoping she gets more excited about college as the semester goes on. Her boyfriend, Tyler goes to see her once a week and takes her out to eat. So that is fun for her.

Kenny is once again in the process of going through another evacuation. Hurricane Ike is threatening them this time. He would come home for a few days but he is one of the designated ones that is first to re-enter after the hurricane to access the damage to the job site before the evacuation is lifted. I am so thankful that he loves his job.

Not much else is going on right now. But believe me, it won't stay that way for long.....

What is Normal?

Who is to say what is normal? For the past several years I felt that life in the Coleman house was that of 'normal'. The changes that have taken place these past few months, have led me to redefine 'normal' as I know it. What was once days filled with cooking, cleaning, shopping, running from one activity to another and finding time to sleep....has now turned into going to work and returning to an empty house or one where there is just one teenager who doesnt find it a whole lot of fun to just hang out with mom. So.....I am in the process of trying to figure out just what I want 'normal' to be at this point. (Any and all suggestions will be taken into consideration. lol..) At first, I looked at this challenge with remorse and depression, but now see that it can be anything I want it to be. That is a bit overwhelming and exciting at the same time.
I realize that I am not the first (nor the last) to have to figure this out, but I am the first in my family and I hope to come through it with a better understanding of myself and how I can make a difference for "????". (I will let you know when I figure it out).
For now, I think 'normal' is searching, questioning, happiness, confusion, crying, laughing, and wondering for me.... (the answers are sure to come to me as time goes on.....I am already not crying everytime I think about how my kids are growing up and away from the home...So I know THAT is a good sign)