My Angel

The last few weeks have been really busy for the Lashlee household. As most of you know from my last post... I now have a job. Wooo Hooo! I not only have a job, but I love it! My boss is such a great person to work for. She is very business savvy and was a nurse for 25 years prior to opening her medi-spa. She is brilliant and so knowledgeable on skin and genuinely cares about people. (I do love and miss my last boss though.) As the Marketing/Advertising Director, here are the things I have been working on. I am starting a monthly newsletter that has 3 different sections... The Buzz, The Rage and The Scoop. The Buzz will have upcoming events and promotions. The Rage will have the latest trends on makeup for the season and The Scoop is going to be a different Skincare/Health care topic each month. Basically I am an editor as well!! I am also working on starting a blog for them (which takes forever!) but once it is up and running, I thought it would be neat to allow all workers to get on and post videos/pics or just an entry for that day. With Spa's being a luxury, it is a little slow right now, so you have to think of newer, smarter, and better ideas to get capture the attention of people. If you have any cool ideas... let me know!! : )

This weekend we had several top recruits in, so Rhett has been pretty busy with that. We all went to the softballs fields today and had lunch and watched the players play softball and have eating contests... that was pretty gross.. I about yakked while watching them eat massive coconut pie/cakes. Not as close as they were though.. : )

Another thing going on is Nana ( Rhett's grandmother) is really sick. To go back a little, Rhett has always told me that his grandparents were like the couple on The Notebook. Needless to say, Rhett bawled through the movie... hehe. He would kill me if he knew I was saying this... : ) Back to the story, Rhett's junior year of high school, Pops passed away. That was really hard on him because it was sudden and unexpected and he was extremely close to him. Nana, shortly after his death, had a blood clot go straight to her heart. She ended up dying on the table for about 10 min. They somehow miraculously brought her back, and only by a miracle of God, none of her organs were poisened. After she came back from it, she wasn't the same. They say she has Alzheimer's, but Rhett thinks she is still in there somewhere. Just stuck in a shell. I truly believe that a part of her died when Pop's died. A couple weeks ago she had a mini-stroke and was put in the Hospital in Little Rock. She has been up and down, but they are saying that she probably won't make it much longer. This is a bittersweet situation because we will miss her and Judy is having a hard time, but at the same time, I know Nana is ready to be with Pops. She has been ready since he left. He is waiting in Heaven for his "Angel".

One story about them, I'll make it short.. Rhett showed Pops a picture of he, Pops and Nana. After he look at the picture, Pops asked Rhett, "Who is the standing next to you". Rhett answered, " Well Pops, that's Nana." And his response was, "No son, that's an Angel." That story brings tears to my eyes every time I think of it. When Rhett and I got married, he didn't show me my wedding band until the day of our wedding. After he put it on my finger, I walked out of the sanctuary took it off to read the inscription.. it read "My Angel".

We are going to fly home early in the morning to see Nana.. probably for the last time. I am praying that she goes quickly and peacefully. She has been through a lot in the last week.



I also wear the diamond that Pops gave to Nana many years ago. Someday it will be passed down and the same stories will be told.