TWO YEARS LATER!!!

Unbelievable..but true. Lucy will be 4 next month (November 11, 2010). Ramey just turned two in August (21st, 2010) I got re-married in December of 2008...not good one...am separated now and pending divorce.
Don't even know if anyone reads my blogs anymore..but was challenged to come back online and possibly write the love story that so many have enjoyed hearing...How Bill Dooley and I met. We will see. For now...just back here and not sure of anything other than I want to fall in love deeper and deeper with my God...enjoy the life of being single again and enjoy the utmost being with my family.
I love you Robert Brown Derebery (daddy), Margaret Ann Derebery(my mom), Brian, Joy, Lucy and Ramey Morykon (Son-in-law, daughter, oldest grandaughter and youngest grandaugher), Will and Mandy Dooley (Son and daughter-in-law).
My married name is Melody Priest, but thinking of taking the "Dooley" back once the divorce is final.
I am living in a studio apartment that I ADORE...getting back in contact with High School friends...what a blast and tomorrow I start a new job at Fossil in their call center.

A VERY SPECIAL PHONE CALL!!

Just a quick note to first of all tell you that I'm a grandmother again...Pics to come...Ramey Kathryn Morykon was born on Thursday morning, 6:52 AM weighing in at 7lbs 1 oz. She is now home with the enire happy family.
So the phone call...

IT WAS LUCY....WOW...it was the first time she every called me...Joy called and said, "Mom, Lucy just handed me the phone and said 'Mimi'....I think I just died and went to heaven. I LOVE YOU LUCY!!

****DISCLAIMER*** This is NOT a picture of Lucy.

Cleaning Teeth, Guinea Pig CPR and Puppy Hysterectomy

I actually started writing this on Tuesday the 29th of July....
I can't believe it myself!! I started a new part time job yesterday as a Veterinary Assistant in Training. I wanted a part time job to get me out of the house a few days a week...and this one just fell in my lap. For those of you who don't know...I love everything that has to do with medical helps....I would have loved to have been a nurse...BUT...I hate school!! So what did the Lord give me, but a part time job as a vet's assistant

Ok...so the first thing I had to "shadow" doing was the cleaning of a dog's teeth...yup...just like at the dentist's office...with finishing off polishing of the teeth...

The first day I started a woman and her 13 year old son brought in a sick (long-haired) guinea pig that honestly looked like a miniature alf

unfortunately "Calico" was too sick to survive and he had a heart attack and died right there on the table. I will NEVER get the mental "picture" of the vet using his two index fingers doing CPR on a guinea pig...unbelievable!! So this in NOT what we did..

Sorry...a little "vet" humor...
The next training day found me assisting in surgery...Yup..that's right...and I LOVED IT!! Watched and helped the vet do a spay on a puppy.

I promise to post real pictures (with discretion of course) next time..the vet gave me permission to take my camera in and take pics

What Have I been doing?

Has it REALLY been 4 months since I last posted? Sorry!! Was in Idahoe and Florida and then in "La-La Land" for about 2 months. Hit the wall big time when I returned to VA. in April and have kind of been in a sub-survival mode. I will let some pictures show you what I have been doing..how's that? I am now a full-fledged member of the Red Hat Society and in March I was able to go to the Broadway Musical "HATS!" in Tampa, FL....


One of the things that I have been enjoying mostly is my time with my precious Granddaughter, Lucy..
Check out her tatoo..

It thrills me to see her taste in fine jewelry...

Bought her a new car and she just forgets about her "old" toys in the background..

She is just FASCINATED with driving..can you tell?



Have you EVER seen anyone enjoy yogurt so much?

I am trying to follow the teachings of Mommy and Daddy with good dental hygiene

And I just love going walking with her...she leads me..

And WHO can resist this? Of course I'll pick you up my princess!

New Friends and "new" others,...

One of the great places I've been to recently is Boise, Idaho...AMAZING. Meet my new friend, Marilyn Sperry, she's the best. She housed Julio, Liliana and I for two weeks and had some MAJOR excitement while we were there...a car crashed her fence in the middle of the night...btw, Marilyn...thanks for the fun times..




And who says missionaries are boring and can't have fun...check out my new (loaner) wheels....I've nicknames her.."La joya" which means "the jewel", my son has dubbed her "the pimp mobile"...you decide....1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo...electric blue

I AM ALIVE!!!

WOW...where do I begin....
So you all thought I was safely settled in Florida...since August 2007...NOT!! God stopped everything...so I found myself putting everything in storage AGAIN...and moving in with Nick and Diane Mezzano from my church in Virginia. THANKS MEZZANOS.
I must say it has been an interesting journey. Some good stuff, really....going out on my very first date since Bill died...........having a blast watching my Little Lucy grow.....celebrating Chile's Independence Day (Sept. 18) in Washington, DC., Thanksgiving, Christmas at home with family...moving into a rented townhome a week and 1/2 before a Chilean Missionary couple came to live with me for 3 months, going out the Boise, ID. and discovering the GORGEOUS WEST and now here I am in Lakeland, FL. at my son and daughter in laws home and today is their 1st wedding anniversary...whew...where did the time go? so here are a few pics...I promise I'll be more faithful.....unitl then....

Summer Missionary Update

Hello my Special Friends,

I’m getting pretty fancy as you can see...learning new tricks..HA! This is just too much fun!!

Anyway..about the title...Yup...big changes in my life and I want to share them with you! NO, I’m not dating,
getting married or any such thing like that. I have been promoted within the ADELPHOS Mission Agency and
needed to let you all know that.

About a month ago we had some exciting changes happen in the Mission Agency and I would like to
tell you that we are now officially partnering with ABWE-GAP. It has been one of my desires to be
able to do this for some time, but it wasn’t God’s timing. Due to these changes and my history with ABWE,
as well as ADELPHOS and CHILE the Board of Directors at ADELPHOS invited me to be part of them
and my title is now “ ADELPHOS USA Representative” and “Director of ADELPHOS USA”. You say....”Hmmm..
sounds like the same thing?” No, not quite. As the Representative I will do just what any other Mission
Agency Rep. does...promote my Mission Agency where ever I can book meetings. Then as the Director
of ADELPHOS USA, I will be heading up the actual opening of a branch office of ADELPHOS in either Lakeland
or Winter Haven, FL. More details on that to follow. I still am Missionary with ADELPHOS as well, so I have
to raise my personal support. I need to raise $3, 465.53 a month, so this is a big prayer request.
I have 12.64% promised ($438.00 a month)


SO THE BIGGEST CHANGE??? I’m moving back to Florida..Woo-Hoo!

Please be praying with me as I put my house here in Lynchburg, VA. on the market the first week in July (Lord
willing). I need to sell here of course before I can buy in Florida.

Thank you all so much for loving me and supporting me and believing in me! I love you all.

My life is in HIS hands...
Melody Dooley
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. Isaiah 43:2,3


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