Alabama (Germany) Hoff House

Hello my old friend, G Blogger. Guess you wondered where I've been or if I have been too sick to write after reading my last post in 2014?  Quite the opposite.  After beating cancer, I have been living my life to the fullest, raising a family, spending...

I want my battle with cancer to be a "slight detour" in my life and have therefore created a seperate "blog" for this path I am walking down. 
Detour this way....
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kirstinhoff

Maybe my struggles understanding the German language while we were living there weren't just due to my poor study habits.... 
Just as I thought I was settling back into the world of English, I had a man come up to me as I was sitting on the library floor gathering books for the kids and ask, "are you going to the Gap later?" ...

After 3 months of changes, unpacking and plain ole chaos, time finally stood still for me.  Well, for about 5 minutes since that seems to be my bodies limit for being still.  But sometimes, those 5 minutes can bring such clarity.
My 5 minutes consisted of the ocean, a pouring rain storm and me floating on my back with my ears under the water all alone in that big ole Gulf.  As my ears filled with salt water, clarity came that I had indeed survived all of the chaos that surrounds...