Prayers for Mom

Last week at Mom's second party, she received a letter from the Governor and everything!  We are so proud of her!  Mom was  a working woman before it was THE thing to be!  This is l-r: Me, Mom, Mel

Well, the time has come, mom's surgery is tomorrow.  She retired today.  Kind of hard to celebrate when you aren't allowed to eat anything other than clear liquids and spend the evening cleaning out your body (sorry but it is the truth).  We should be celebrating the fact that she has worked her last day in 32 1/2 years, that day will come.  Right now we need to focus on getting her well and getting the cancer out of her body.  It is so hard to live away, I am going to head up north tomorrow, bless everyone who is taking care of my children in one way or another so I can be with her and my sister.  Another reason we should be celebrating is because today is my sister Melanie's birthday, oh to be 38 again!!!  Instead of eating cake and drinking champagne I am packing, cleaning, donating a closests worth of clothes to charity, dropping my outdated magazines off at the library and my house will hopefully be spotless by the nights end.  I feel the need to get all my ducks in a row so to speak when I know life will be crazy.  I have been down this road so many times with our loved ones it is a shame that  I know so much about how to prepare for it.  Packing a larger purse to have up at the hospital, one that can hold a book and a few magazines along with anything I may need during the day.  Having extra food on hand for my kids to snack on while I am gone, setting outfits out so that my hubby doesn't have to guess at what "goes" together for Myah.  I know that all of this seems pretty trivial but it is what I have to do in order to feel better about everything. 

I pray that mom's cancer will be a part of her past, that we never have to bring it up again.  That she can start enjoying her retirement as soon as possible.  We can hardly wait.  Please pray for my mom Linda, she has never had a surgery of any kind, she is putting on a brave face for us girls but I am sure she is worried too.  The Dr's are removing a portion of her colon tomorrow and also her gall bladder, they found some polyps on that as well.  She feels great now, you would never know that anything is wrong with her, except that she is thin, so we hope that her strength will help in her recovery.  She has some pretty special angels watching over her.  It is expected to be a 4 hour surgery and she could be in the hospital anywhere from 4-7 days.  After that my sister has a gorgeous suite already prepared for mom's recooperation.
We have just gone from one surgery to the next around here, I am in my 5th month of playing nurse.  Dayton is doing much better, ( I know I keep forgetting to update on his condition), his second surgery went very well, the screws and plate are gone, he is starting therapy again and hopefully this was the answer to all of the unusual swelling. 
   I just had to add a few pictures from mom's retirement photos, her office put on two retirement parties for her, this was the last one, Mel and I gave a little speech and a few gifts.  I had to laugh, someone must have grabbed my camera for me (hence the quaility but I don't care!), ok, we are a family of many facial expressions!  If you know me you already know how quirky I can be, but it really shows in this sequence of photos of Me, Mom and my sister Melanie.  Thought you would get a giggle out of these!

 Mom loving the new watch from Mel.

 Not sure what we are laughing about but this is soooo us!!!!  What is up with my cat that swallowed the canary grin?!!!

 Not sure what little ditty about Mom I was dishing about here but Mel must have agreed!

 Aren't we so attractive?!!! ha ha!!! I don't care, we know how to work a room!!! ha ha!! I think after mom retires we could be a traveling side show! We love being on stage!!

 This was at Mom's surprise retirement party, she was very surprised! Her coworkers loved working for her, they said she ruled with an " iron fist inside a velvet glove" I loved that!!!

 Grandma and her granddaughters.

Many friends came to celebrate with mom.

 Mom and her daughters

Mom and her cake, just in case you were wondering who she was standing by!  Ha ha!

Our family, minus Mel's hubby Chris, Dayton had just had his surgery two days before bless his heart he was a trooper to ride in the car for 4 hours!



Sorry this is such a heavy post but I know there is power in prayer, and we need it, all that we can get!!! Thank you so much!!!!