We’re home and BOY DOES IT FEEL GOOD TO BE HOME!

Wow! Our home welcomed us with open-arms, a seriously-grown garden, some new cobwebs, 6-dozen (or so) loads of laundry-to-be-done, and of course our own bed – the same bed that is calling me to come and pass-out on!

Ella did TERRIFIC yesterday and today. After my morning visit to my friend Ken Wilson in Anderson, we didn’t leave SC until after 4PM on Friday. We ended up somewhere just South of Lexington, KY and spent the night in a hotel. We slept in a bit, enjoyed a Cracker Barrel breakfast and got back on the road for the last-leg of the trip this morning. We stopped in Ft. Wayne for dinner with Mom & Dad Garrett at O’Charlie’s – good stuff.

Ella is VERY road-worthy – she learned to sleep SOUNDLY for up-to 4-straight hours at a time while we traveled this past week!

Some pictures (and videos) have been uploaded this evening – a full vacation recap can be expected sometime this coming week.

Big day tomorrow – Pastor J’s first Sunday as Warsaw Wesleyan’s new Senior Pastor!

Must sleep – eyes are crossing…

Dad’s doing great. Antibiotics will cure the ear-infection and he should have full hearing back in a day-or-so! Thank you ALL for praying! We were ALL on edge about the whole situation. Our prayers were answered for sure!

We left for North Carolina sometime after lunch time. We had a GREAT night tonight – I will attempt to upload some pictures tomorrow for sure!

Jess and I head back towards our home in Indiana tomorrow afternoon. I have coffee with my web-buddy Ken Wilson tomorrow morning as well as a tour of his church – Newspring! Can’t wait!

A few days ago my Dad had a pain in his ear that wouldn’t stop. He has since had nothing but problems from this ear – losing partial hearing (worsening over the last two days) as well as occasional bleeding.

We have finally talked my dad into going to the doctor this morning – despite his desire to get us all to the Family Reunion in North Carolina.

Dad will be the first one in the doctor’s office this morning – we’ll see about heading to the family reunion this afternoon.

Please pray for Dad, his ear, and for us as a family to make a wise-decision about this afternoon.

Tonight the Sheets Father-and-Son team will be enjoying the spoils of what it means to live in a state that allows fireworks.

I know it will be a good time.

Dad and I have been incredibly busy these last couple of days – we’ve been busy packing and re-packing as well as going through many old boxes-of-stuff. I have enjoyed unpacking my entire Coke Collection that I am feverishly looking for a dealer to take off of my hands.

Ella is doing marvelously. She was SUCH a trooper coming down from Indiana. She slept nearly all day as I drove and Mommy sat next to her.

On Thursday we will be heading to North Carolina to a huge family reunion. Ella will get a taste of LOTS-O-FAMILY – and Dad is borrowing a van for us all to be able to travel together!

I’m not having much success at uploading pictures to the web – I’m currently borrowing a slow wireless Internet connection from a neighbor – thank you neighbor!