Hope4Peyton

To each one of you who offered up the “fetus inhabitation” theory on my illness…may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!

As my baby factory is closed, there will be no more junior Mayhews coming down the assembly line…and if there are there will be some serious lawsuits in our future.

AND I will be hunting down all of you who even breathed the idea and beat you into a hot mess for daring to think it.

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A few weeks ago I shared the “Blogs Can Change Lives” contest going on at 5 Minutes For Moms, sponsored by Sony Playstation.  They gave away 10 PSP bundles to kids with critical illnesses and I’m so thrilled…I mean ECSTATIC…to let you know that of the 10 kids they picked, two of them are very close to my heart! Brooke Martin and Mandy Willis were both chosen as recipients of PSP bundles.  WOOOOT!  Thank you to all who took the time to nominate a child, our hopes is that Sony will see how many deserving children there are and all those who love them and will decide to sponsor more contests like this one..

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I totally forgot to remind about my Sunday post over at 5 Minutes for Special Needs, you can go check out my post about the price we pay for the all the “free” stuff we get to do.

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And there’s a new contest over at the Mayhew Review site for the new Seal CD!  It’s easy, painless and completely worth it!  So, please head over and check it out.

I think I’m dying.

Having Dr. Google diagnosed myself, I appear to have, in no particular order:

Bubonic plague, but I haven’t seen any armpit blisters yet….give it time.

Encephalitis…which may actually be a stretch, but it does say that “symptoms include drowsiness and confusion”…I could potentially have had this for a loooooong time.

I think I have a kidney stone…don’t ask…it hurts!

OH MY GOSH!

Do you know how many diseases start with headache, nausea, body ache, and irritability?  I could have anything from PMS to Crohn’s Disease.

The only reason I have to keep living right now is because I got to see Twilight and am just aching to write what I thought of it.

It IS possible that the aching is just another symptom of flesh eating disease though, so waiting for confirmation.

To My Dearest Bridesmaids,

All these plans for the wedding seem to finally be coming together.  We found a caterer that finally agreed to use the canned cheese instead of that nasty brie gunk…really?  Who eats that stuff!

And YES, they will be hanging mama’s black velvet Elvis behind the minister (who is really going to be Jack’s brother’s girlfriend’s father’s hairdresser’s neighbor….and he found the best wedding words on his COMPUTER!  Can you believe that?), I mean, it can’t be any worse than the moose head sticking out of the wall of the lodge, right?

I am so excited!! It’s going to be the wedding day I’ve dreamed of since I was a little girl.

Just a quick note to let you know that I finally found THE perfect bridesmaids ensembles!  I really wanted something timeless and classic, something that just screams “Wedding of the year”.  Ya’ll are going to look fantastic and I think it’s something that you’ll be able to use again and again…because the magazines say to keep it practical.

Love,

The Blushing Bride

ps…Becky, I think you’re going to like this one…AND you don’t have to worry about that forty pounds you put on..it comes in PLUS sizes.

When I first started taking my family to a support group for pediatric cancer, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into.  I had no idea that within months I was going to feel like this was my second family.  It was a foreign concept to think that we would find ways to laugh and be joyful during our daughter’s cancer.

Somehow, we did.

We did laugh…a lot.

We did cry…a lot.

We found understanding strangers who became friends that evolved into family.

And the family we built has been through some rough times.  Devastating times. We lost six children in the span of six months.  Our family was very much torn apart.

Those family members who no longer have their children were sent off to build a new family…and they SHOULD find a haven with people who truly understand their loss.

But you know what?

It sort of SUCKS.

We were the ones that shared every high and low.  We were the ones who laughed until we cried and cried ourselves back to smiles.  We stood together in solidarity during death after death, comforting each other the best we could.

I miss them.  I miss seeing them. I miss hearing what’s going on in their lives…good or bad…I want to hear it from their lips.

Tonight was a reunion of sorts.

When I walked into family group night so many of them were there and I saw faces there that have been missing.

I hugged a dad whose smile has the ability to brighten up my entire week.

I smiled seeing kids that melted back into play as if they’d never been gone.

I literally attacked a mom I haven’t seen in months.

We celebrated Thanksgiving together and like any good holiday, it brought all the kids home.

It was so good to be together.

***P.S. Because I totally forgot I want to extend the date on the contest giveaway just waiting for you to participate over at my review site. I’ll be pulling a winner on Saturday night at Midnight EST intead.  And seeing as how there are only a couple of people participating, chances are really good you’ll win! Free stuff, people! We are talking a wonderful regifting opportunity for the holidays.

How to be a good blogger.

First, you don’t fill a whole post with nothing but pictures because you just cannot put one more word on the Internet without drinking at least a gallon of coffee and eating a pecan pie…not a piece…the whole thing.

Thus, I give you:

Spaceship…rocket…shiny…fire…boom!

OH! I can’t stand it…she is going to break hearts

Yes, I let her pick out her own outfits. What?! You got a problem with that?

It really sort of sucks to be cold at the beach

But, no matter how much it sucks to be cold at the beach, I WILL FAKE COMPLETE HAPPINESS TO BE EXPERIENCING HYPOTHERMIA

Is it going to be warmer over here?

What have I done to make you hate me so much that you’re making me stand here in the cold?

Secondly, you don’t promise to write something meaningful when you aren’t exactly sure when that “meaningful post” might actually happen. SOOO, I won’t.

Third, you DO NOT post pictures of your sick pet in hopes of pulling sympathy from all your readers.

Mah puppy was sick!

She got an ear infection and needed surgery on her ear

She’s is full of the pitiful

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Don’t forget!

You MUST go to here and read my review of the new Linda Eder CD and check out the many opportunities to win her new CD and T-shirt autographed! (autographed by her, not by me…but we can make that happen if that’s what you really want.)