Seven years later....

Wow.

I forgot about this blog, and accidentally was linked to it while looking for another blog. So I figured it's due a 7-year update.

A lot has happened in those 7 years. My father remarried, his high school sweetheart, and moved to Tennessee. Sold the house I grew up in (high school, college, and law school), and now just my brother remains in Monroe (West Monroe, actually).

Caitlin is in Nashville, where she has been since graduating college, practicing as a nurse in pediatric oncology at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. She's also in her last year in nurse practitioner school at UAB.

Sarah graduated from Alabama with a degree in Psychology, and is three weeks away from getting her associate's degree in nursing, where she will join her sister in the profession in January. She has accepted a job at St. Vincent's Hospital here in Birmingham. She has been seeing a young man, Patrick, who is stationed in Oklahoma currently, but will be moving to Clarksville (about an hour north of Nashville) early next year. He spent today (Thanksgiving) with us, and Sarah will drive him to his home (Atlanta) tomorrow night.

Andrew is still periodically in school, but is a full-time software engineer at Vincari, and doing well. He moved out into his own apartment downtown a couple of months ago, and the house is a little quieter.

Rachel is in her senior year, applying to close to two dozen colleges, because she wants to go into musical theatre. She has flourished in that area, loves singing and acting, and wants to make a career of it. She recently finished starring as "Juliet" in Romeo and Juliet at her high school, and is busy preparing video auditions now.

Collin is doing well in school, and has had another great year of soccer. In the spring, he had a partial tear of his ACL, but worked very hard, and is stronger than ever now. He'll be going to Atlanta next weekend as his team will be competing in a college ID tournament, and will be playing JV soccer for Oak Mountain High School in the spring. He had high hopes of playing varsity, and his goal is to be "called up" to the varsity team when the tournament begins at the end of the season.

Sue and I are, well, doing great health-wise, and enjoying watching our children grow up and flourish.

That's all for now. I'll try to update a little more regularly next time.

D.