The Week of June 10th 2014

This has been a blessed week for me. on Tuesday God blessed me to see my 49th birthday. I started the day thanking Him for another day and another year and for all my blessings. The day was good. I did just what I wanted to do...as little as possible. I spent time on the sofa with a good book I checked out from the library early that morning and later that evening my family and I went out to dinner. I felt like a celebrity because Ramsey kept taking pictures of all of us with his Iphone. He probably has a hundred photos of us on that phone. He takes the good and the bad pics...he just like snapping. He makes us all laugh. It's a joy having him visit us during the summer. Before we even go into the restaurant he takes about five family photo shots of us. And when I check his phone later he has one of the pics of Fred and I as his screensaver. I smiled at that. Okay, so before we go out to eat, Fred, Janee' and I have this discussion about the birthday songs that are sung at the restaurants. Well my darling husband hates all that attention and don't like all that singing and loud noise. So as we finish up dinner and pay for our food and as I am about to get up, here comes the crew with a dessert and a candle. They were clapping and singing loud right over his head. I laughed at him remembering what he had said. He is smiling really big. I had no idea they were gonna do that. Come to find out Asa got up to go the restroom and on her way she told our waiter about my birthday. Then found out Janee' had told him too while she was placing her order. I just missed all that. It really was a surprise to me. And the song they sang wasn't the typical birthday song...it was extra cute. I really enjoyed that evening with them.

So today is Friday and the day started out hectic. First of all I got up too late. I woke up at 8:15 thinking it was 6:00. Did my usual morning cookie baking and burned two batches and had to make some more. All in the midst of baking I am also multitasking by washing clothes, straightening this and that, trying to decide how and when my son is gonna get the other car today, making phone calls, gathering all my ingredients for ice cream sundaes I plan to have at my brother's retirement after party in Jasper, Asa was waiting on me to stop what I was doing so I could do her hair etc.,. etc.,. I then look at my cell phone and my sister text me and ask If I was still going with her at noon. I didn't answer right away because in the back of my mind I'm thinking there is no way I can go with her. Now she told me a week or so ago that she had signed us up to go this event. With my chemo brain I forget things pretty often. This I had forgot about and told her to remind me a few days before. So I got my cookies finished and packed up. By this time it was about 10:30 and I had decided to go. She said she will be at my house by 11:30. I said okay. So I leave the house at 11:00 to go deliver cookies. When I go in to deliver the cookies the people at the front desk wants to chat and I am steady checking the time. I finally leave and then I look at the gas needle and realize I need to put gas in the car for Fred so he won't have to worry about it when he gets the car. So I stop and put gas in the car. By this time it's 11:15. I needed to stop by the bank and make a deposit, but I knew I did not have the time, so I came home. I had on a wrinkled up Tshirt and some tight jeans. Yes I said tight because I have been eating a little too much lately. Oh I forgot to plug in I went for a walk in our new walking park yesterday. I'm going to try to keep that up and maybe my jeans will get loose again. I knew I couldn't wear what I had on because she told me she was wearing a skirt, so I figured I better throw on something a little better than what I had on too. So anyway I ran in the house and as soon as I get to my bedroom I get a text from her that she is outside. I text her back and said "ok" knowing that I was no where near ready. I got ready so fast, because the event started at 12 and I didn't want to make us late. Okay so she had to wait on me for about five minutes, but we made it just in time. We arrived at the place and went right in straight to the food line. On the way there I told her that I hope they had food because I didn't find time to eat that morning. So they did and the food was soooo good. The menu was this delicious pasta dish, lasagna, salad and bread.
The event was for National Cancer Survivors Day to celebrate life and honor cancer survivors of cancer. The event was great! I was so glad I decided to take the time out to go. It was refreshing, inspiring and encouraging. The speaker was a Stage four cancer survivor like myself. He is an eleven year survivor of kidney cancer and he really looks good for a 63 year old man. He is actually a trainer so he must have plenty of energy. After we ate and after the speaker finished we all went outside for a letting hope soar-balloon release. Thank you Shamarion for making sure I got there and for signing us up for this event along with encouraging me to come. That moment was right on time and the right time of day especially after my hectic morning. It just relaxed me to go into my hectic afternoon. Because when I got home my husband had gotten this raggedy trailer from the country to pull my son's car on. All the while I thought he was getting a nice one from Uhaul. But nope...guess he was waiting on me to do it and so I did. That took about an hour, Asa had to leave at 4:00, by the time I got home it was 3:30 just in time to do her hair and send her off. A mommy's job is never done, but I'm so happy to be one. This weekend I am closing my birthday week at home with family celebrating my brother's retirement. Can't wait to get there! Below is a picture of the cancer survivors and caregivers waiting to release our balloons. This was really a touching moment.