Thursday

-
My sister's father-in-law passed away unexpectedly Tuesday night, and we all spent yesterday being sad for their loss. I have trouble imagining what that's like. Okay, actually, I avoid imagining what that's like. Camden has been so sweet about it. When I told him, I mentioned that Aunt Liz (who teaches at his school) probably wouldn't be at school, but if she were, he needed to make sure to give her a hug and tell her he loves her. He very seriously told me, "oh, I've already been having a great big conversation with her in my head." When Brian got home from school yesterday and went in to talk to him, Camden said, "I had lots of things to say to Aunt Liz, but she wasn't there so it was all a waste."

I really need to clean this house today, but I think I might just spend some time with this face instead. Well, actually, I still have to clean, but maybe I'll do it during naptime.


Yes, those would be crumbs on her face.
One downside to my new camera - it picks up on the small details you don't want to highlight. LOL

Comments

M :-) said…
Melissa, I'm so sorry to hear that your sister's FIL passed away. My thoughts and prayers are with the family.

Miss Rory - you are just too cute! My boys are in here, and they keep asking when we're going to see you and 'that boy who showed us how to use the slides at McDonald's' (LOL!) again. ;-)
8:59 AM
Becky said…
Melissa, that is what photoshop is for!! sweet pictures and I love what a sweet young man Camden is growing into.

PS, maybe it has been this way for a while, but love your new blog look!
9:05 AM
Christine @ 12,450miles said…
And now you know why I love the "healing" brush in PS... or whatever it's called! Sorry to hear about your sister's FIL, but so happy to hear about how mature Camden was. What a sweetheart!
2:15 PM
Elizabeth Frick said…
I am so sorry for the loss in your family, but that Camden is such a sweetheart! My goodness, so sensitive! And beautiful shots of Rory! What lovely kids you have :)
3:34 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Scoop

-
Our meeting with Dr. W today was fine. Not encouraging, but fine. I don't know why I expected better news, but I think it's hard not to hope that the bad news you hear is somehow wrong; that they've somehow made a mistake. Basically, the cancer is still the same as prior to chemo. Possibly a little larger, but he said it was hard to tell. He was glad that it had not returned to my bowel or colon (because that was a large part of my initial surgery), and my chest and lungs are still clear (apparently, this is the next place the cancer would go). It does not change my stage of cancer (still 3c), and remission is still a possibility, but he said that it would be very tough to get there.  There are several more drugs that we can try, which is good, but unfortunately they each have a success rate of only 25%. It's a little too early to be considering clinical trials because hospitals who hold the trials like for the patients to have tried the more main-stream drugs firs
Read more

Late Night Ramblings

-
Image
1. Thanks to Andrea for driving me to chemo today. I'm always a little anxious on the way in and the very few times I've had to drive myself, it's been a little lonely coming home. But not today. 2. A fellow chemo patient today thought I was in my 20's. Score.  ("score" would be a term I'm borrowing from Becky ) 3. I did not wear a scarf today to chemo, and all the nurses and doctors did a double take since they didn't recognize me. So wierd. I recognize me with hair, bald, and with a little puppy fluff. 4. Dr. W. is adding Avastin , a new drug which will help prevent cancer cells from growing, to my current Gemzar routine. Good news is that it won't make me feel any worse. Bad news is that in a small percentage of patients it causes severe side effects involving blood clots, kidney failure, ulcers, and holes in your bowel. Good times. 5. I've been instructed to head directly to my primary care doctor for blood pressure medic
Read more

Scenes from the Soccer Field

-
Image
So I may not have apologized yesterday about the number of pictures, but I am definitely going to today. Because  coughcough thirty coughcough just might be excessive. And probably my family will be the only ones who look at all of them. But I don't care. :) By the way, we completely lost and did not even score a goal yet again. Rory tried really, really hard. This team was head and shoulders bigger than we are, way more coordinated than 4 year olds should be and their coach kept their A team in the entire game. Even after scoring some 15 goals. Oh, well. Rory still enjoyed herself. Which way is the goal again? Notice her position in this picture. Notice how she passed the girl next to her? No, I am not competitive at all. Not sure where the other team is. Oh, wait. There they are. See how much bigger they are? You'll notice she almost always runs with her mouth open. Either that or her tongue hang
Read more