24 hours..................

40 hour countdown!

Jana and I visited Cord last Sunday....kind of like a closure...saying goodby to our guard friends we have become acquainted with the past year.( we have our favorites and did see the one on our way out at the gate, thinking we missed him...he does have a photographic memory and never had to ask us for Cord's number, ever!) Saying goodbye to the long drive to Gunnison...goodbye to the guard towers and the coiled fences keeping our son away from us.

Goodbye to the security beeper, goodbye to our little key storing our valuables in their locker, to the 'grodie' public bathrooms, farewell to coloring in the blue room with dull/broken/short colored pencils..(although we did get brand new out of the box pencils twice when we took tay with us..she was our good luck charm), goodbye to waiting for Cord to make the long traverse from his "house" across the prison grounds to our building where the visiting is held, goodbye and good riddance to the clanging loud doors, the random weird rules, goodbye to having to sanitize our hands, steering wheel, driver's licenses, etc., goodbye to the other people in the "blue room" with children who we became friends with...(good luck to you all!! we know many of you have years to go before you sleep...) and good luck to Bolli's in their attempt to get Cameron out on Compassionate release.

The time has flown/stood still...and we are thankful for the lessons we have learned. We are thankful for friends who have prayed for us in our time of sorrow and affliction.

Thank you all.

Good by to this blog, although I will post photos of Tuesday morning when McCord will be

FREE

HELLO TO A NEW BEGINNING.............................................