So far this week

it's been great. Angel day game with my friend Karen on Tuesday, just the ladies. Angels won so I will be invited back. Bunco that night came in second in scoring in case someone is keeping track. Love my bunco sisters we've been together along time at least 1o years or more. A couple of good walks with the hubby around beautiful Woodbridge. Yesterday was the two year anniversary of my friend Kristen's passing... MISS HER so much still. She will always have an impact on my life, I learned so much in such a short time from her. Working on my own PHOTOGRAPHS mini album. Played tennis twice and playing again tomorrow (yeah, my bones hurt) and the best news of all.... BLUE CROSS gave us the approval for hubby's cancer treatment today. So next week the process begins. It is such a relief to have that approval and know we don't have to mortgage the house to pay the estimated $70,000. We do live in one of the best places with the best doctors in the world. Praise God. xoxo

Love

They are so in love and so much fun! I love them both so much it was so great to spend time with them this weekend. Time! There is never enough in a life time a day an hour a second. Time is something we pray Meghan will have a life time of to live, love, marry, travel, work. All the things we take for granted. She is so beautiful at 25 and so very ill. Everyone prayed that after her 10 hour liver surgery last fall the colon cancer that spread to her liver would be gone and she would have remission. It didn't happen and now her and her doctors are looking for new and different ways to treat these evil cells which invade that beautiful body of hers. She is so darn cute. I have so many emotions about this unjust outcome from her surgery. They are dealing with issues no one their age should be dealing with, her parents too! UGH! I want to fix it but again I can not. I pray lots and I know God is listening but what is the mighty healer doing about her condition? With out a doubt I find it all very confusing. Love, just keeping loving and supporting Meghan, Michael, Meghan's family. I was so happy when they were here and just glad to see them... As always with me a day later the true reality sits in and the emotions are hard to control... Then I get on my pity pot aka: the soap box and start with the why questions... Why does Meghan have cancer? Why does my husband have cancer? Why does Aunt Liz have cancer? All at the same time.... Why did Kristen (39) die of cancer 2 years ago on April 25th..... ENOUGH... I don't want to be sad of depressed I want to be a happy/life is wonderful blogger.... but I know we all have our life issues.... I want to write about nothing but good news... I want to live an always happy endings TV life...

Happiness

There Here! Yes, Michael and Meghan have come down from Santa Cruz for a weekend visit (after an 8 hour drive)... Does not seem like enough time to just be in their presents and enjoy them but we will take it. They both look fabulous. Looks like a good day with lots of sun to just hang out and look at them like they are a piece of rare art on the wall. Well they are rare art to me. Grey's Anatomy quote from the other night it was all about our history. It ended with this one which is as close as I can remember it from Meredith "the most Important history we make is the history we make today"... I love that... needs to be scraped on a page.

This week?

I wonder what this week will hold... things I know that will happen and things I hope happen... I hope my baby (25) Michael and his girlfriend come down this weekend. I have been moping over the fact I have not seen him since December and have not seen sweet Meghan (his girlfriend) since October. Since that time she has under gone a 10 hour surgery on her liver to get rid of the colon cancer that decided to move in there. She is feeling so much better and can travel some again, we offered to pay for the gas and food (offered to fly them down as well) if they would come for a visit. If they don't we will get up to Northern California to see them after Rich has his lymphoma treatments. The picture is of the four of us last April at Chad's weeding where Michael was the Best Man (and what a toast he gave, I hope it is on tape somewhere it was almost biblical) So that is what I hope will happen a visit with the ones I cherish. Things I know will happen - my brother is coming out from Baltimore Maryland to live with my mom for awhile, should arrive tonight.. He has a BAD addiction problem and said if he did not get out of Maryland he was going to die... UGH not good.

Fun Stuff that keeps me sane.... going through LOTS of Scrapbook Oasis (there blog link is in the side bar) page kits I had put together and just had piled up in the scrappy room. Put pictures on at least 10 of the pages and feel some what accomplished and productive. Even put pictures on a couple of pages from classes I took at the Oasis years ago. Tracy Kyle, Teresa Collins and Karen B classes... I must say it felt great to sit back and look at pages that were done. Other fun stuff last two tennis matches for the season a visit tomorrow with a neighbor from the old neighborhood... I think I need to do some scrappy shopping too! that always gives me a temporary high... must be my addiction.

Better

This week feels so much better than last week. Hubby is recovering and getting some strength back. Blood test on Friday to see where he is at and when the BIG treatment will be scheduled. We actually took Gracie and went for a walk around the lake today after he got home from work... What a lovely evening I love that time of day. I ordered more pictures today from Kodak since they are running this Internet special where 4X6 prints are only 10 CENTS... Yes one thin dime. Now if I will keep focused and get them scrapped once they arrive in the mail. I actual finished a scrap page that I started over 4 years ago... that is progress!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter a card I scrap lifted and one I would say is a combination of others I have seen. Yes, I came up with the "chicken" saying on my own but I am sure it has been done before. The EASTER spelled out letter card was a great way to use that box of a million squares I have laying around.... I should have made more of these... Oh well good idea for the next Holiday. Happy Easter and God Bless...

Good News after 4 days they finally have enough of hubby's stem cell's to place in the bank. So he has been unplugged for now and we are off for an over nighter to Big Bear... xoxo

This is Hard

Day one of Rich's harvest is now turning into day 4 tomorrow. They are almost done with harvesting the stem cells but one more long day to go. To say he/we have seen enough of the Hoag Cancer center is an understatement. Wow there are some really sick people that go there for treatment and it does not feel to me that we are sick like they are so my question is what are we doing there? We both need a really good night sleep and it is just about impossible for him to sleep with that catheter in his right shoulder - has to sleep on his back... Can't wait for tomorrow to be over for my wonderful husband, the harvest should be complete and they will pull the catheter. I get the day off and I am already feeling guilty since I am going to play a little tennis and go to lunch with a friend - late birthday gift...We have logged a lot of together hours over the past three days. The day ended great. Mom and I went to David's Salon in Costa Mesa to get our hair tinted, weaved and cut we look beautiful. Early BD gift for mom since her birthday is on Easter Sunday this year....

Tomorrow's Harvest

Monday April 2, 2007. Big day they will be harvesting Rich's bone marrow/stem cells and putting them in the bank in case they are needed in the future. He has an unbelievable doctor who met him at his office in Fashion Island yesterday at 6:30 am for his shots and he met us there again today at 11:15 on a Sunday so Rich could get the next round of shots... We love this guy and know God has put us in good hands to fight and manage this lymphoma. Rich is amazing and handling this all so well, I feel he handles it better than me. Sometimes it all seems so distant and not real but as tomorrow gets closer it gets all to real very fast. My love my inspiration- I think I have a new saying for a scrapbook page "we each have our own wings - but together we can SOAR". We need to soar together right now to lift each other up... trying times again. Counting the blessings - Counting the blessings - Counting the blessings. Time to go finish those Easter cards I need to get mailed off tomorrow... Creativity helps everything as long as you can put one foot in front of the other and avoid the fetal ball position.