Dear Tyler,

Hi pumpkin! How are you doing on this Tuesday morning? Mom is once again sorry that I didn't get to write you a letter yesterday but to be quite honest with you, other than getting ready and taking the pups for a nice walk, Mom did nothing. My body was in so much pain from the day before with moving all the boxes around, packing more after that and then doing housework. My arms and lower back hurt really bad. I took it easy yesterday and today I am feeling a lot better. The soreness is still there but nothing like it was yesterday. Mom is using muscles that I haven't used in a very long time. I am still trying to do things at a slow pace so that I don't get stressed out easily. That is very important to me. Last night we got a pretty good thunder and lightning storm. It last for about an hour and then rained the rest of the time. Today the skies are blue and it is sunny. Mom has been watching the weather on this Hurricane Dorian. Mom has been praying for everyone that is in the path of this terrible hurricane. The Bahamas have got the brunt of it and the pictures are so sad. As of yesterday there were 7 deaths and over 20 badly injured. I am sure those totals have gone up. There are parts of the Bahamas that don't even look like anything ever existed there. It is very heartbreaking. Everyone in Florida is doing okay right now. It has gone from a Category 5 down to a tropical storm or maybe a Category 1 at worse. That is heavy rain and about 55 mph winds. We get that here all the time where we will. Everything is okay with our new home. We were suppose to close on it today but due to everything going on it got pushed back a week. Everything is still shut down there so until things reopen we can not do anything to push this along. We are hoping that everything will reopen tomorrow so that our new date to close will stay but there are no guarantees. It is really out of our hands and all we can do is sit back and wait and hope that it all works out for us. Please, if there is anything that you can do to help us out, Mom would gladly appreciate it so much my sweet precious son. We really need to get things settled with this. We have come to far to lose out on this home. Mom will keep you updated as I know of things.
 Yesterday, Mom didn't speak to Meme or Grandpa which I was surprised but I did chat with Debbie. She is doing well. Grandpa was still sleeping at noon time. Guess he still is having a hard time falling asleep at night. He is up until wee hours of the morning. I really hope that after he retires he will get to change those sleeping times to better ones. It will do him so much better. The phone other that that was quiet. It was kind of nice though. Mark played his video game all day yesterday with his brothers and Mom did a few things around the apartment (easy stuff) and I watched my TV shows for a bit. All in all it was a busy Labor Day Weekend. Mom got a lot of things accomplished and we are almost all completely packed. This week I will be focusing on a few other things such as securing everything to close on the home, flights and going through some holiday decor. If the weather is cooler than I will start to tackle the garage as well. Thursday Mark has his appointment with the Specialist in the morning. It will be another busy week for us here that is for sure. Mark will be working and Mom will keep trucking along with everything else. I will write to you either in the morning or evening depending on the day and how busy it is. I will try to write to you every day but Mom is not sure if I will be able to or not. Just know on days that I don't write, you are always on my mind and I talk to you multiple times a day. Mom also leaves pictures with quotes daily on your facebook page. I hope you see them daily and they make you smile. You are forever in my heart, mind, body and soul. You will always be my hero and the wind beneath my wings. I miss you beyond words and I love you to the moon and back and all the way around the world. I hope that you have fun today and tonight while Mom gets so sleep. Come visit me and send me some signs that you are here. You know how much I love that! I will be back tomorrow with another letter to you. For now Mom is going to go grab something to eat and then relax for the afternoon. My back is starting to really hurt me again. Until tomorrow comes....good night and sweet dreams later tonight.
 Always, Mommy xoxoxo. Muah!

Here is the prayer for the day:

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16–18, NIV

Lord our God, we thank you that you come to help us with your power and might. We thank you that you come to us in our suffering and strengthen us in all we must endure on earth. You help us so that what is good and full of light comes more and more to us and to all people. We thank you and pray that your power, coming from the invisible world into the visible, may continue its quiet working in us until the day when everyone can see Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and into all eternity. Amen.