Thursday night, the kids and I headed to the International Mall in Tampa to enjoy the best kinds of fun we can have. The kids were treated to food, ice cream, and every Build-A-Bear frivolity you can imagine. The parents were treated to an awesome dinner out and afterwards, we were gifted with beautiful Christmas [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Birthday fun!
My poor unloved child. Only 5 boxes in the mail, 42 email messages/comments/posts and somewhere in the range of 22 cards. Doesn’t anyone love a cancer kid anymore!?? Seriously, what an awesome outpouring of love today for Peyton. I had her sitting on my lap, I’m reading her email and comment post after card and [...]
Happy Birthday
I didn’t do pregnancy well. I didn’t glow, there was no ethereal quality about me…my goal was to get that person taking over my body out as fast as possible. Peyton was a miserable pregnancy. I spent the last couple of months on bed-rest, and I wanted nothing more than to NOT be pregnant anymore. [...]
Call of the wild
If Peter’s departure on Sunday turned the day into a Lifetime for Women movie, then today’s photo shoot with Flashes of Hope was most definitely a Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom episode…something about the “crazed reaction of beasts when thrown into a new element”. Holy cow. Yesterday was melancholy, there were many tears as Pete [...]
Happy Birthday for the first time
Today was a busy day with moments of sadness as the household prepares for Peter’s departure. Rachael and I made one of those scary trips to Wal-mart, the kind where you feel like you should be on Sam Walton’s personal Christmas card list. Getting dad ready to be on his own was an adventure for [...]
