CoCo's Corner

Ted and I traveled to Joplin, Missouri this last weekend.  The visit was double fold, as we were going to see his family, but also to say goodbye to his brother-in-law Bill who was dying and not expected to live very long.  I had only met with Bill probably four times in the time I had been married to Ted.  He had been a career military man.  He exuded that quiet strength and because of that, he  reminded me a lot of my father.  I never knew him to be anything but kind.  After visiting with Ted's sister Mary for a couple of hours, we left to have dinner with  the rest of the family - leaving Mary there with her extended family of Bill's children and grandchildren.  He passed away about an hour after we left.  He had been in a lot of pain and I'm sure it was a relief for him and his family to see him not suffer any longer. This weekend with Ted and his family, memories of Bill and such, caused me to reflect on my meeting his family.  Ted is the oldest son and second born

This is WAAAAAAAY late in posting.  But, I wanted to share some photos from my Florida trip.  My daughter was working for JetBlue, but found that it wasn't for her.  So before she left her job, she was trying to get another trip in to take her kids on.  I kind of invited myself - which helped out, because going with three and one of them not being able to ride some of the rides was going to dampen the fun.  Daddy wasn't able to take time off work.  We had the greatest time and I enjoyed myself so much.  We flew out on the red-eye to Orlando (we still don't know how we got on this plane, we really shouldn't have) on June 22 and came home from Tampa, Florida through New York on June 25.  Quick and amazing trip. Zach "surfing" at Islands of Adventure Chelsea "surfing" Riding on a Pterodactl.  Had to get this as fast as I could as they went speeding by Mama and daughter - with an added boy photobomb! On the tram - g