Something New!

These are some photos from our recent trip up to North Conway to meet and take a ride with Thomas the Train! The kids were so thrilled with this wonderful adventure that Nannie and GrandDad searched out and treated the whole family to! (I am putting my money on Nannie being the primary researcher of this one!) Thank you Nana and Grandy!!

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Thank you all for your continued prayers. The heat is really doing an number on me, and Jason and I are just doing our darnedest to keep positive and remember that the summer has always been hard, and if it were this hot and humid last year, I would have been hanging out in ICU. Now I am pretty much living a normal life of a mom of 2 with a very busy, extremely loving husband who cares for us all dearly but still has to earn a living! The darn MG has popped it's head out in the last week or so, but things aren't getting significantly worse, so I am just going to hang in there. Dr. Logan will be getting a call, and Exeter Hospital will have a happy little visitor this coming week if things don't improve tomorrow. I have been doing so well, and it is hard to see any backslide, but we need to stay positive. This chemo is going to work. Maybe it will take a little longer. Maybe I just need to be honest about it not giving us a cure, but making me better. I still want it to be a cure. I plan on it being a cure. Why not plan on a future where the hospital and all the drugs don't decide my hairstyle? :)

Chemo Brain

I am not kidding... I had no idea that I hadn't written in so long. I am forgetting everything these days. In fact, I have lost lots of things, the most important of which is my brain. I wake up pretty much every morning and think, "Now what the heck happened last night"? Combine that with the nausea and headache, and I am going through life feeling like I have a constant hangover. Unfortunately, I am not having the fun that usually comes the night BEFORE the hangover! ha.

There are several reasons why I haven't written.
1. I hate to complain.
2. As I have said in the past, when I am feeling sick I don't really feel like spending time on the computer, and when I am feeling well, I want to be going out and doing fun things with my family.
3. We got a new camera, which I love, but I haven't quite mastered downloading the pictures yet, and I hate to post entries without pictures :)
4. July has been a very busy month! I am just going to fill you all in with pictures rather than words.

I am working on setting up a slide show on the blog site itself. I know lots of you just get the emails and don't need to check the site itself, so I am going to try to put a slide show in an entry- not just on the site. Stay tuned for more updates!

Now that is a look!

Daddy's Girl

Mommy's Boy

Lots of love here!!!

Katherine climbed her first tree.

Snuggles after a busy day.

Surrey with a fringe on top.

Fun on the lake at the Cape.

Summer workbook in "Roger" the camper.

Kate's orientation day at SMS.

Father's Day at the Seacoast Science Center.

Lunch with Daddy up at the base.

Our annual family photo at the Cape.

Look, I am a whale!!!