Mom’s pathology report came back from the two lymph nodes they took out. One was negative - but one was positive for cancer cells. She will meet with the radiation doc on the 17th and oncologist on the 18th. to take the next step. So, it’s a stage two now, I guess? [...]

Mom called tonight around 6:30 - Aunt Charl was out of surgery - cancer free! Not only that - her doctor - the same one who had operated on her when they found the cancer (at which time he just closed her back up because she was too weak to withstand surgery), the same [...]

Mom came through the surgery with flying colors!!! The doctor sent her home after just a few hours. They took out two lymph nodes and that came back negative for cancer cells. They removed the cancer via a lumpectomy. She will meet with the radiation oncologist next week when she’ll begin [...]

After over a month with no rain, we finally had a rainstorm roll in and it was worth the wait! Slobo captured it in pictures for me.

After which a beautiful summertime sunset followed:

The trees, grass, buildings, everything - glows around the dark pines. The already dark green evergreens turn to [...]

I went on a shopping trip one evening with the family in search of “something pretty”. I told Slobo I didn’t know what I wanted to buy, just something to brighten up the house. Yeah, I had that ole’ spring bug again. We visited 2 or 3 stores, much to the chagrin [...]

As a mom, I hold my breath in fear of the moments our children will lose some of their childhood innocence.
If you read Slobo’s blog, you know that Flash, our 6 yr. old Golden has cancer. We will see a specialist on Tuesday morning to see if anything can be done.
When Pope John [...]

My sweet SIL sent me this video…

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I want to put a personal face on the heroes of our country. This is our hero, my nephew, Christopher. We just got word that he will be going to Iraq the day after our youngest sons birthday. As with most of our heroes, he can’t wait to go and put [...]

We knew we needed tires on our Envoy for awhile. That’s the reason we started doing paid blogging. Just Friday, Slo added it up and we finally had enough payments due to buy the tires when they paid at the end of the month.
Yesterday, we found out it wasn’t the tires that were [...]

Johannes Gutenberg (printer) born, 1400. Being a printmaker myself, this is an important day! The smell of printing ink, mineral spirits, the softness of a sheet of handmade paper, that lovely indentation left behind ……
Happy Birthday Gutenberg!