Posts under ‘things that are awesome’

A friend of mine was telling me about how they equipped their driving-age teenager’s car with a monitoring system…without their knowledge…enabling them to track where she was going and whether or not her car was where she said it was supposed to be WHEN it was supposed to be there.
My inner sixteen-year old said, “WHOOOAAA! [...]

Today marks three years to the day that Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia.
Our most craptastic anniversary.
Over the past 36 months, I’ve kept a Bible verse in the header of this site.
It was three years ago TODAY that verse came into my life.
I was curled up in one of those awesomely comfortable hospital chairs *snort*, just [...]

Family.
Food.
Fireworks.
Fun.
Fiftybazillion kids.
We hosted.
We cooked a lot.
We ate a lot.
Bang! Boom! Pow!
Ohhh. Ahhh.
I are teh tired.
So, here are the highlights of my weekend. In order of age.

Elaine

Katie

Stephanie

Nathaniel

Rosemary

Rachael

Peyton
We had a pretty good-looking weekend, wouldn’t you say?

I  was going to write this whole post and leave a little added blurb about Peyton’s clinic visit today.
But it deserved space all it’s own.
Counts were INCREDIBLE!!
Still cancer free.
Possibly the best three words ever.
I so want to get this made into a shirt for her to wear. EVERY. DAY.

Yeah. My kid is that awesome!!

I have this thing about trying to find something good out of a situation, even when it’s mostly crap and the good sometimes has to be really lame, like “well, it could have laid eggs in my ear!”
Sometimes it’s not so hard to find the good thing.
When my dear friend Heather lost her [...]