Dear Tyler,

Hi my sweet son! How are you doing on this Monday afternoon? Mom is doing better than I was earlier. I guess between yesterday and today, I ate something that did not agree with me and I was so sick. Mom relaxed downstairs for about an hour and I started to feel better. I was going to be making tacos for dinner tonight but I think I will be waiting on that and just having something very light to eat...lol. I can't believe that it is already going on 4:30 pm. Today kinda flew by for me as I have been up since 5:30 am. Last night we went to bed at 8:45 pm. Mom woke up at 10:30 pm and again at 5:30 am this morning. I felt so well rested that I didn't fall back to sleep. Mark slept until 7 am. I went downstairs to feed the pups and then made coffee for everyone. After that I came upstairs and made the bed, did some rearranging and painted a small part of a night stand. After that was when I went to make something to eat and about 1 hour later I was sick. When I was starting to feel better, I took a long, hot shower and felt a bit better. I did some emails and made a few phone calls that needed to be made and now I am writing to you. Mark is on a conference call, Meme is on the phone and Bob...well who knows what he is doing. Him and Meme got into it when I was relaxing downstairs. He does absolutely nothing and is that way daily and she called him out on it. He didn't like it and he told her to leave him a lone and to stop pestering him. She told him all he does is sit and watch TV, eat and sleep and that he was basically lazy. She was telling the truth so I will stick up for her on that. He didn't like what she said and got angry. That is too bad but he needs to hear it because it is not fair that we are all busting our butts to get things done and in order down here and all he is doing is...NOTHING! Mom gets that it is part of his illness but it is not 100% of it or even close. Meme hit it on the head and said it was laziness. He needs to start doing things for himself and finding things to occupy his mind during the day. He is not doing himself any favors mentally, physically or emotionally by continuing this kind of behavior. When we got down here, about a week into the move, he had a conversation with the Medicaid group. They found him a doctor and set an appointment up. Meme kept asking if he had one and he kept saying no. Well the other day we found out that what he was saying was a lie. He had an appointment on November 1st and he missed it. He didn't even care that he did. As you can guess, Meme was livid at that. I don't blame her. He is suppose to go bi-weekly to get levels checked and he has done nothing in 5 weeks. That is not okay. I really hope that things change with him and soon because Mom is not sure just how much I will be able to tolerate. If there is anything that you can do to help us all out, Mom would appreciate it so much. Thank you my sweet precious son! It really means a lot. Mom and Mark are trying to do what we thought was best for everyone and now we are all have second thoughts. It is very sad in so many ways. Anyways....
 Today is November 11th. It is Veterans Day. Mom made a post earlier to all the past, present and near future Veterans who have, are and will be serving our country. Most places are closed in observance of this day but anything that doesn't relate to Federal or Government are open. Hopefully Mark has an early night from work. It is 4:45 pm and the call is still going strong so something tells me that he will be on this until 6 pm or so. It will be getting dark here within the next hour or so. It was sunny and nice today. I saw that up North it was gray, cloudy and it was snowing. Aunt Beck is looking to get 6-8 " of snow between today and tomorrow. Where Mom lived it will be snowing there tomorrow as well. I am not missing any of it. I do hope that everyone is staying off the roads and they are being safe. Tomorrow is Pepe and Auntie Kristina's Birthdays. Mom will be sure to send special messages to both of them! 
 Tonight after dinner looks to be like an evening of relaxing and maybe a bit of TV but something tells me that it will be an early night as Mom is already quite tired. I will light your candle this evening and I will whisper to you later as well. Smile when you hear Mom and I will smile back to you. I hope you have fun while I do get some sleep tonight. Come visit me in my dreams if you can. I look every night for a painting in the sky but nothing really yet. I can only think that you have been really busy lately. I will continue to look each night though! Remember that you are my everything and that I miss you beyond words. I love you to the moon and back and all the way around the world. You are my hero and the wind beneath my wings. Forever you live inside my heart, mind, body and soul. I will be back tomorrow with another letter to you but for now I must go feed the pups and get dinner prepped for us as well. Until tomorrow comes.... good night and sweet dreams.
 Always, Mommy xoxoxo. Muah!

Here is today's prayer:

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. Exodus 20:2–4, NIV

Lord our God, we come to you, the source of all being. You have said to us, "I am your God. You shall have no other gods besides me. Honor none but me, your God." We thank you for this wonderful message. Help us to recognize you more and more, so that our hearts are full of the goodness and blessing we already have on earth, so that we hear you, the mighty One, say, "Stop, O people. Make peace. No one of you is more important than any other. Remember that I am God of all, in south and north, in west and east, on the oceans and everywhere. I am the one God, and through Jesus Christ I am now your Father." Amen.