prayer request, celebrations, 1sts, and is it tuesday already?   August 26, 2008

omgosh, i feel so behind, yet school just started! LOL. story of my life. but, we take each day as it comes, take nothing for granted, and count our blessings every time we pray.
if you could please take a moment from your day, as you’re reading this and please pray for my dear friend’s little boy, tanner. i shared last month, how he was diagnosed with Juvenile Xanthrogranuloma (JXG). it’s a skin disease that manifests itself as lesions and can occur on various areas of the body. it is a rare condition, in and of itself, however, tanner’s condition is critical because his granulomas are in his airways, causing his lungs to partially collapse. normally, this condition where the lesions are found on the skin, goes away in 3-5 years on its own. today, i received this email in my inbox from his heartbroken mamma:

Tanner’s big day for surgery is tomorrow, Wed at 4:30pm. He will get a port in his chest, a feeding tube that goes directly into his stomach and a trach. He will then get a CT scan from his head to his hips to make sure there are no other nasty cells hanging around and then a bronchoscopy to make sure his lungs are clear. Poor Tanner is going to wake up sore and scared and probably very confused about the trach for sure. He will need to learn to eat and talk with it. After about 5-7 days of recovery (it may take longer because all the mega does steroids he’s been on inhibit healing), he will start chemo.

please keep him in your prayers. he will surely need as many as he can get!

on a much happier note, we have officially now a *grader* in our home, and the same day she embraced her new role in school, her daddy celebrated his birthday! miss emi and i had gotten big girl haircuts just a few days before, and here’s the photos to prove just how grown up we are! LOL.

here they are… my two puffs on a roller coaster ride called go daddy! he just adores them, and vice versa. we celebrated sunday night, after the girls and i spent the weekend with my parents, so daddy could finish relandscaping the front yard, and do a thorough garage cleaning, along with a honey to do list inside the house. at least he took my advice and got a nap in! we went to our fave restaurant that night, along with my parents and my brother and his gf. and monday, we celebrated just the four of us.
this one was quite the entertainer! this is the face i get when she sees the flash on the camera come out. and the second photo is the face you get right before she decides to spit out her milk and then try to catch it and use it like lotion all over her face. quite special one might say, LOL. that’s our baby for ya!
i literally have to catch my breath, when i look at how grown my baby has become! just cannot stand it sometimes. she was very excited to see all of her classmates, esp the ones we hadn’t had playdates with during the summer. she has her own desk now, and she chose to carry a book bag this year, not a backpack. big decision for my grader girl! of course all of us parents and siblings were crowded around the front door and the kids are like…ok, you can go now. with tears in our eyes and cameras flashing like they are famous, we got our last hugs and kisses in, before we headed out to linger and chit chat in the parking lots. LOL. will we ever grow up?
in other fun news, my fellow DT member over at MLS, miss emily jones was just added to this DT. go emily, you know i love your work, and melody has great taste, too! big hugs and congratulations to you!

my sweet and amazingly talented girl, karla just tagged me with this fun award…

The Rules:
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girl’s you nominated.

so, here are my nominations [drum roll please LOL]…

suzy
rocio
kristin
emily
kerry lynn
gigi
norma
i’m off to work on kitting some ultra yummy goodies for the upcoming garage sale, here this weekend. DO NOT MISS out! from what i hear, there’s tons and i mean tons of goodies we mechanics are saying bye bye to!

happy [omgosh i cannot believe it is] tuesday tuesday!!!