August blues

Here comes August, ready or not! It always seems to slip up on us and then we sorta get the blues thinking of all the things we meant to accomplish. I really was gonna get lots done (and I DID) but it never fails...school starts and I always comment that summer was so busy that I don't have time to go to work! This summer I experienced life as a band geek mom...and since my band geek isn't driver's license age, I got the privilege of taxiing him (and sometimes his friends) back and forth from band hall and practice field to home and back again. Made me wish I'd spaced my children a little less than 10 years apart, so our always-willing-to-help-her-brother daughter could take a turn with the driving route. So now you know our family...older daughter Whitney and younger son Reed who are our sunshines. As for our title, betterhalf, well......you will have to read and decide for yourselves, although I could save you the time and trouble and tell you WHICH of us IS the better half!!!!!
On a much more serious note:On a much more serious note, our summer has been touched with a tragic accident in July. A very good friend of ours and her son were involved in a car wreck which has left her in the Trauma Unit on the 10th floor of Vanderbilt Hospital for the past 40 days. And while she is improving slowly but surely, the journey to complete recovery will be a long haul. We are trusting God to work out His will in ways that only He can. She is a very strong woman and her faith and witness are also strong, so we know that nothing but good will come of this.