Dear Tyler,

Hi my sweet son! How are you doing on this Saturday afternoon? It is January 12th and boy it is a cold one out there today. It is sunny but the temp is a high of 29 degrees. Tonight it will get down into the teens. Winter is definitely upon us now. Mom and Mark were supposed to go out today and have a good time but that got botched because last night Mark did not feel good and it has carried over into today. Mom decided that we would stay in and go out tomorrow. I was able to make breakfast, do the dishes of those, gather the garbage, get the packages at the office, dust, vacuum, get ready, chat with Meme and my friend and now I am writing to you. Mom is a little upset though because I had said to Mark that if we were not going to go out then he was going to be on the couch resting all day and no video games at all. If he can do that then we can go out. Well.... guess what? He has been playing a video game for the last couple hours. I said something to him about it and I was not nice at all. I am pretty ticked off. I am so sick of his childish behavior. It seems like it is always work and video games and I have to try and find time for him to do anything with me. Right now I am just not in a good mood. I was hoping to write to you so it would relax me and maybe cheer me up but I don't think that is going to happen. Mom is feeling like crap right now. I am hoping and praying that I am not getting what Mark has. Please watch over me my sweet precious son. Thank you so much. 
 Meme and Mom chatted for over an hour today. It was a good conversation. She was relaxing after she had been out in the cold running errands all morning. she was telling me that she is continuing to purge a lot of her stuff and now Bob is doing the same thing. I think that is wonderful. It will really make them feel so much better. I hope they stick with it. I know they have done a lot but they still have so much left to do. I will check in with Grandpa either later tonight or tomorrow night after he gets out of work. We don't have a skype call this week so that will be the perfect time. Not much else is going on. This coming week is going to be rough on Mark and Mom. I am not looking forward to it at all and I will be glad when it is next Sunday and everything will be behind us. Mom is watching the weather closely for Mark. I hope it changes or he gets told not to go. Please be with us on those days as well, Tyler. Thank you so much. 
 Mom will light the candle for you in a bit. It is almost done so a new one will be started probably on Monday. I will whisper to you like I always do every night so be listening out for my voice later. I will smile to you and hope that you will smile back to me. Have fun later tonight when I am sleeping. Come visit me if you can. I am sorry this letter is so short today but Mom just wants to go relax on the couch. I need to be thinking of dinner as well seeings how it is already going on 3:30 pm. The sun will be setting in less than an hour. Mom is hoping for another beautiful sunset. I will be back tomorrow evening with another letter to you while we are watching football. The last of the wild card games are this weekend I think. There are 2 games today and 2 tomorrow. It will be Colts vs Chiefs this afternoon and then Cowboys vs Rams tonight. Patriots vs Chargers is tomorrow afternoon and then the last one will be the Saints vs Eagles. Mom is predicting that the Chiefs, Rams, Patriots and Saints will win and will knock the Colts, Cowboys, Chargers and Eagles out of the play offs. I really want the Cowboys to win but I have little faith as they are playing the Rams. Mom will let you know who wins them all on tomorrows letter. 
 I miss you like crazy and love you to the moon and back and all the way around the world. You are my superhero and the wind beneath my wings. Forever you are inside my heart, mind, body and soul. Until tomorrow comes..... good night and sweet dreams later. 
 Always, Mommy xoxoxo. Muah!

Here is the prayer for the day:

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. Psalm 55:22, NIV

Dear Father in heaven, you let us see and feel your great goodness toward us. Grant us the inner help to be victorious in the Savior, rejoicing to be by his side with faith and loyalty, and with the strength of soul that frees us from all burdens by laying them in your hands. Hear us as together we pray to you. All we ask and long for, all our concerns down to the very smallest, we lay in your hands in the one great request that your name be glorified on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.