I will be leaving to see Brent graduate and see my mom and dad.  I will also be staying with my nephew Frank and his wife Mandie and their 2 boys Owen and Everett.  Owen has made PLENTY of plans for me as I am told.   It will be nice because we will all spend Mother's Day together, including the entire Steele family.  So that will be very nice.  Phyllis and Lee are bring my mom out to Frank's house for a BBQ...I hope the weather is beautiful!!

I will be starting one on one counseling since the group counseling just doesn't seem the right thing for me.  I really think that I am doing great, considering, but I just want to make sure that I am truly healthy.  I have only had 1 or 2 bad days and I have forced myself to be productive.  Get up and pay bills, clean files, go to lunch or something to get out of my funk, so all in all I think that is good.  Like I have said before, I have been grieving for a long time.  Now it is just really missing Craig and the time we spent together.  The quietness of the house, being alone, etc.  I know I will be happy again one day, that is what we BOTH wanted....it will just take some time. 

Our friend Deb R. has lung cancer stage 4.  Please keep her and her family in your prayers.  This is quite a shock as she feels great and really had no symptoms.

I am planning on begining to work next week on my Hope Center Packet.  I will meet with SimmonsCooper and we are going to have a planning session.  They want to know my vision of the packet and are eager to work with me on it.  So that is exciting.  They are willing to help write, implement and design my vision.  I just need to collect the information, put it into order, write a rough outline and submit it.  They will then clean it up and submit it back to me for approval.  Pretty cool!!  I am so excited to get back to activism.

Well I guess that is really about it for now.  I will blog when I return.  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO ARE MOTHER'S AND GRANDMOTHER'S!!!!

BELIEIVING....Shelly