Well I should be asleep right now. I have a sinus infection, went to the doctor and got two shots, took my medicine, and I'm wide awake....but very medicated! :) Dave had the same thing earlier, well I guess it was last week. He is doing better now. All the coughing and sneezing was tough on his incision. He still has some pain from the surgery. He has been back at work for almost two weeks. We are still very busy. I keep telling myself if I can make it 4 more weeks that some of our activities will be over. Yesterday I took Abby on a field trip to the American Village. It poured down rain so we got to see the program, just not as we would have if it would have been pretty outside. The program was on The Constitution. It was very good. We got back to town just in time to get Samuel to football practice. While we were driving to practice Samuel was asking a million questions as usual. He wanted me to name all the football teams in the SEC. So I started naming them and then he wanted to know where some of Alabama's star players from last year were playing this year in the NFL. As I was naming all of the teams and telling him what teams all the guys were playing for I thought....why do I know all of this? I guess since Samo is interested in it, I have become more interested than I realized. So if you need to know what NFL team somebody is on...just ask me :) So after football we hurriedly ran through a drive thru for a very unhealthy supper for me, Erin, and Samuel and then took Samuel to karate. We got home at 8:30. Dave and Abby went to the Campus Outreach meeting at JSU and got home about the same time. SOOOOO....... I have become what I never thought I would. I spend all my time running kids to activities and get home late every night of the week. How did I do this? I think I was trying to make up for our year in Houston when the kids didn't get to do any of these activities. NO MORE!! Next semester will be different. I asked the kids the other day if they could drop something, what would it be? Hands down they said SCHOOL.....so we won't be dropping anything right now.
Please continue to pray for our family. I think the pressure of the last year is catching up with me. I know alot of people have told me they always feel the stress after the trial is over. I think I'm feeling some of that. I always wonder what effect it will have on the kids. So far they seem good...but I'm watching carefully. Dave's next scan is Dec. 6th. My goal for our family is for us to LIVE. Enjoy life. Try not to live from scan to scan. Try not to think of cancer everyday. I have developed some close relationships with other sarcoma wives. I think of them often and pray for them often. It is hard not to live in sarcoma world anymore. That may not make any sense. I guess there has to be a way to be connected to these people who I have grown to love without letting it depress me. I want us to be an encouragement to others. I want others to find hope. Not just hope in the great doctors or the great Sarcoma Centers, but Hope in Jesus Christ. Really that is our only hope in cancer.
Tomorrow is my shop day at Kids Market. I love this day. I get to spend the day with friends....shopping is involved....and I get super duper great deals on clothes for my kids. What could be better? This is my 12th year to sell and shop Kids Market. If you have little ones and live anywhere near Birmingham, you should check it out here. So goodnight!!
