Merry Merry Happy Happy

First I want to wish each and everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Shelby and me.
Once again, the snow has us snow bound. In a couple hours, I will dig out to my car.
I have to keep a path dug out for Shelby. Snow seems to fall before I can keep the stairs and a potty path completely clear.
Hope you and the snow are fairing ok.

Went to Matthew's on the 8th and stayed for a few days to help out Angie. She had her other foot operated on. They had to remove some dead bone; fuse some other bone; and break and repair the break in other places. She won't be Walking or putting any pressure on it at all for at least 8 weeks.

Kymberly takes good care of Mommy making sure she has her pillows to prop her foot on.Angie said that when she was born both of her feet were twisted to one side so she has had foot problems all of her life. I hope they are fixed.

As you can see, we celebrated Christmas. Glad we could cause no way could I get there now. Here are a few Christmas photos.



Last year Kymberly was too little to understand. This year she gets it. Presents!

I also made Sugar Cookies with the kids. Matthew wanted to put some on the Christmas Tree. I used Spelt flour and Egg Replacer. They turned out pretty good and didn't taste bad either.

They sure had fun.
Both Marquis and Daniel did a wonderful job of decorating. My boys loved decorating.

Kymberly also had a great time.

Though she would rather eat the frosting than put it on the cookies.

She had so much fun that day that she didn't take a nap. She was playing and just toppled over sound asleep about 4 pm.

On the 12th, it snowed. Matthew and his children went outside and moved snow to make a snow fort. They hadn't finished it when I left. They were just in the process of moving the snow and piling it.




Even Kymberly tried her hand at digging.

Then figured they were doing a good enough job that they didn't need her help after all.


If the boys are going to do something, she is not going to be left out.

She has finally come to know who I am and gives me hugs and kisses and comes to me to be held.

All in all I had a very pleasant visit and was glad I could give Angie a hand. She needed the help.
Matthew is home more now that he is no longer working for Schwan. He is working at Chewelah Peaks Learning Center as an instructor. Right now there is not much going on up there. More skiing next door at 49 North than children coming to the Center. So he can be home more and help her. He is glad to be able to be home and be with his family. Before, he hardly saw them, especially, his children.

Well, for Christmas, if I can get there, I am going to my Brother's, Billy, in Union Town and spend the day and maybe longer with him, Debbie, Travis, Erica and MORGAN. Bill's other children and their families are supposed to be there. That will be Kirk and Laura with Wyatt and Meghan--Brian and Molly with baby Mason--and Jamie and Chris with baby Madison. Good thing they have a big house.

Hope you all have the very best and enjoy your Christmas.

Life is good

Can you believe all this snow. Of course, it was due. Poor little Shelby.


Prayers help. Tanna and Kevin have had good news. The medication she is on is helping. Her white blood count has gone down. The CML was caught in its very earliest stages. The ATF is still looking at her and Kevin's prospective job is holding the position open. So thanks one and all.
Thank you all. I hope these happy faces stay this way.

Last month was my Morgan's birthday. What a wonderful day it was. Can't beleive it has been a month. Wyatt and Meghan came and Jamie brought little baby Madison.


Yeah for Spiderman!

Meggie had a lot of fun. Hard to beleive we almost lost this precious little girl. She was born with her intestines outside her body. Now at 5 she is thriving and growing. Such a happy child.




I gave him a Spiderman place setting. Here his mommie watches and Wyatt helps Morgan. His Birthday cake, of course, was Spiderman.



Yeah, for 4th Birthdays and Spiderman, Me!

Always the Spiderman. Great Grandpa, my Dad, also came. Here he is watching Morgan enjoying unwrapping a gift.
Jamie hands Madison to her loving Grandpa. He sure enjoys his little ones. Both Wyatt and Madison were born on his Birthday.

Madison has sure grown. She is cheerful and bright.

I just love this picture. This is my sweet neice, Erica, taking a nap with Madison. Such a beautiful girl. However, she is a teenage best seen sleeping though she is sweet she is still a teenage girl.

After the birthday, the adults played some poker. It is fun to play with the family. We give each other a hard time. We each put in $5 and just have fun.


After Morgan's birthday came Thanksgiving. Kirk and Laura always make sure I am not alone. It is fun to go to their house. I had pictures but for the life of me I can't find them. It was a very pleasant day. Laura is a wonderful cook.

Now we await Christmas.

Good Day

Life has a way of sliding sideways sometimes and the last little while has been just such a time for me.
This is not a pitty party. It is just why I have not communicated lately.
1. I was under going my some medical needs. I have hurt a lot lately and found out that it is Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis. Treatment and appointments continue. It is just one more corner I must round and not an impediment to my life.

2. My Aunt Joan died of cancer. After 13 plus years of remission of Breast Cancer, cancer returned only this time in her bones. She lived for only a week and half after diagnosis. She is my Father's Brother, David's, wife.

3. The news that slide my world most sideways and for awhile off track all together was the news that my Daughter in Law, Tanna--Kevin's wife, has Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML).
She and Kevin had just put in their paper work for discharge from the Airforce. Tanna was undergoing routine medical examination so she could take a job with the ATF. This CML raised its ugly head.
Apparently she can not be covered by any insurance Kevin may get with any company he might go to work for outside the Air force. Doesn't make sense to me. I thought as long as you were covered by insurance without a break in coverage then you were covered by any other insurance. He has had to turn down a comparable job outside the Air Force with the one he is currently doing because of this insurance problem. Tanna may be medically discharged. All this is speculative and holds get concern.
The only cure is a bone marrow transplant. Kevin is checking into this as we speak.
Prayers are greatly appreciated.

As if this were not enough, as I was talking to my sister last night, she said, "Guess I can tell you now. " Tell me what! It turns out that at the time her daughter knew and she knew that the baby Alicia was carrying was not going to survive--Derrik, Cammie's husband, found out that his cancer had returned. He didn't even tell her for some time. Guess he has been undergoing Chemo since May. What?!
She says Chemo is through and that he appears cancer free once again.
You know a person should really share these things. It eases the burden and gives people the opportunity to pray. I just don't get it.

Good things did happen lately also. Morgan had a 4th Birthday and we had Thanksgivings. More on these in a different post a little later.

For now, I am headed up to Paper Pals and get my mind off the fact that today is my dear husband's, Marvin, Birthday. He would have been 63 today. Oh how I miss him.