Paul's Update - 09/01/07

Dear Friends:

Things were pretty quiet on Thursday and Friday. Dad had to take a trip to Paul's doctor to get a prescription for his medicines. He also made a trip to Lowes to get a new piston for our front screen door. Since we put the new door on it has been slamming and we are hopeful that this will help. He also put on the trim for the door. Paul spent most of the day watching TV with Dora. He hasn't been very active but he is probably due to have some "down time" since he has been doing so well lately. We had bible study in the evening. Ronda brought a delicious dinner over. We didn't really do our lesson ... we talked a lot about things going on in our lives. Sometimes our prayer time is actually more important than our study time!!

Friday morning Dad had several errands to run. He wanted to get some things to be ready for our trip. We will be in Myrtle Beach visiting with my Mother & Sister for the next week. Paul enjoyed staying in bed a little late and watching a movie before breakfast. Some mornings are really good for that!! Dora had the day off since she has a wedding to go to in North Carolina. Carolyn came over to visit for a little while. She is going to keep Maggie (the dog) for the week at her house. We went out to dinner with Ronda and Bill. We went to the Chinese Restaurant. Paul had Lemon Chicken. We enjoyed dinner but Paul got sick on the way home. It has been quite a while since he did that and he has eaten at this restaurant before so we aren't sure if he is coming down with a virus or something. Hopefully he won't be sick on our vacation!

Saturday morning came VERY early for us all. Bill & Ronda decided to travel to Myrtle Beach with us and stay for the weekend since it is a holiday weekend! We were up at 4am to get ready to leave the house at 5am. Dad said Paul DID NOT want to get up when he went in to get him. He finally got him up and we were out of the house by 5am!! We made several stops including a stop for breakfast and another for lunch. It took us 11 hours to do a seven and a half hour trip! It was a beautiful day and we decided to take Rt. 701 in North Carolina down to Conway SC which is where my sister lives. We arrived around 4pm and after we visited for a bit we headed out to Applebees for dinner. Nana Richard, Aunt Ann & all of us ate and visited until almost 9:30pm. When we were done with dinner we headed back to Nana's house and she made brownies and coffee for dessert. We had a late night and Paul didn't get to bed until almost 11:30pm. We will head off to Ann's church early in the morning and spend the day out.

Have a great weekend! Lynne & Carl