Yesterday was such a strange day of multiple significance. First, it was Brylie's 12th birthday. The celebration started Sunday evening with a swimming/slumber party at a hotel with three of her friends, Mikaylie, Nani and me. The boys were there for swimming, pizza and cake but left before the slumbering, or lack there of began. The girls and I headed home in the morning to find that Billy had headed to the nursing home to see his mom. The home had called and she was not doing well and they did not expect her to last very much longer. Billy and I decided not to tell the younger 4 children so that Brylie would not be upset by it on her birthday. By the afternoon, Grandma Jacki had passed peacefully away. Billy took it so well, as she'd been suffering so long it was truly a merciful blessing that she finally had relief. We told Kaigan and Mikaylie but kept it from the littles until this morning. We hated to tell them before school but since we'd been on Facebook, we feared someone would understandably comment on their loss and they'd be doubly upset. Surprisingly, the kids, too, took it well, even Brylie who tends to be quite emotional.
The other significant note about yesterday is that January 17th was supposed to be Billy's first day of work at his new job AND it was yesterday that our container of belongings set sail out of Savannah, GA en route to New Zealand. It's arrival date is April 4th, so we do have plenty of time to get there and receive it. We're praying that this delay was so that Billy could be here for the passing of his mom and now God will release us to go. We continue to pray and wait with baited breath for news from immigration.
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