My blogs have been few and far between lately.  We have been busy with school.  The kids took SAT's a couple of weeks ago.  We are 4 weeks away from completing this school year.  I am always burned out by this time of year.  I cannot trust my emotions the last couple of months of school.  I usually am ready to give up and enroll everyone in a school somewhere by this time of year.  But....we will make it...only 21 more days :)


We have also been busy with Relay for Life. That is the big fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.   We have a huge Relay in our county. Last year while we were in Texas our church started a team. They worked so hard last year and raised over $6000.  This year I am the team leader.   Our big fundraiser this year has been a cookbook.  It turned out really well.  If you would like to buy one just comment on this post and I would be glad to get you one.  They are $12.  The actual Relay for Life event is May 11th and 12th at the soccer fields on McClellan.  If you live in our area please come out and be involved.


Dave has his next scan on May 29th which is also Abby's 12th birthday.  He will also be having surgery to fix his incisional hernia while we are there.   Dave has been setting up these appointments and it has caused him to have a bit of scanxiety a little early.  Not bad.....but just having to think about all that is a little much.  I don't know if I have gone one day since he was diagnosed without thinking about cancer.  I know there are days I don't think about it as much, but it is always there.  Dave was telling me he looks at this blog from time to time just reading back to what we were doing  last year. Everyone who lives around here remembers what they were doing this time last year.  April 27th was a day of terrible tornadoes in Alabama.  Many people were killed statewide.  We were home from Houston on that day.  We all got in our basement bathroom and rode out the storms that passed through our area. We had no damage, but some our neighbors just miles north lost everything.  People are still rebuilding.  We left and flew back Houston on the 28th.  You could see the devastation from the sky.  Just another reminder of how fleeting life is.