My leukemia's back.

[Suzie]

Um, Sour? Going by some of Suzie's posts in the past, if you do stay with them I suggest bringing take-out meals! <ducking> Sorry Suzie, someone was gonna say it, so I figured it might as well be me.

Ah...so true Blooie! In fact my Husband just staggered out into the kitchen with his empty dinner plate...I am not sure if he ate my burned offerings or if he donated them to the dogs...!

They are all alive as I write this...if any of you need to diet...come and let me cook for you.....!

 

[Bunnylady]

If Sour were to go there, he could do the cooking (green potato salad notwithstanding, I hear he's a good cook). Though I fear if he did, we might never hear from him again.

 

[Suzie]

If Sour were to go there, he could do the cooking (green potato salad notwithstanding, I hear he's a good cook). Though I fear if he did, we might never hear from him again.

OK I hear you! I would never subject Sour to my culinary( un )skills...he would be returned to you all intact...I love him too much to inflict my cooking mishaps on him...honestly!

 

[Bunnylady]

Suzie, I was trying to hint that your husband might be tempted to try to make Sour and the Princess permanent house guests if he thought Sour would do the cooking . . . .

 

[LittleLakePhil]

OK I hear you! I would never subject Sour to my culinary( un )skills...he would be returned to you all intact...I love him too much to inflict my cooking mishaps on him...honestly!

don't you have a pretty rainbow fry pan?

 

[N F C]

Good morning everyone!

 

[Suzie]

Suzie, I was trying to hint that your husband might be tempted to try to make Sour and the Princess permanent house guests if he thought Sour would do the cooking . . . .

don't you have a pretty rainbow fry pan?

So true...to both comments.....!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

So true...to both comments.....!

.... Hi Suzie....going down to traverse city next Friday....see little Alice. I'd post more pics but my son hasn't sent me any.he post stuff on FB but I'm not on FB. I don't want to go on FB I'm already here too much.....

 

[N F C]

I've tried FB a couple of times, never could get the hang of it. And it wasn't like people were really talking to each other very much. I much prefer BYC.

You'll have to take pictures and share them with us Phil, we can wait for yours!

 

[Blooie]

And isn't that funny? I've been on FB for a long time now and I really like it. I reconnected with a very special friend, Jan, and we picked up right where we left off. Our families lived across the street from each other in Tennessee and then we all got transferred to San Diego at the same time. This is a friendship that goes back 41 years. And when my sister got very sick and we almost lost her, I started a family FB page so those of us who live away from Sioux Falls could get regular updates. That way no single person was tasked with having to make phone calls all the time, or we weren't getting multiple calls a day from lots of different family members. As soon as someone back there had a few minutes they posted. Then we all knew what was going on and we could focus on Linda. Same with Ashley's updates.

While Jenny and I were in Denver awaiting Kendra's birth, FB was invaluable for me. I didn't feel like I was in it up to my eyeballs and all alone. As soon as she was born and Kenny was called (and sent a hunnert 'n' eleventy photos of Mom and baby) I was able to let everyone know at one time that she was here and doing well. We got very close to some of the other families living in the Ronald McDonald House and are still in touch regularly. Little Sophia's family (she was the baby born just before Kendra and she was born with half a heart) has become very close to our hearts and we can see her progress just as they see Kendra's.

Another very, very special little boy, Raul, was just 2 when we met. Raul suffers from the "Worse Disease You've Never Heard Of", Epidermolysis Bullosa. It's a hereditary condition where there is no connective tissue in layers of skin. Raul has a particularly horrible form so his mouth fuses, his hands and feet are permanently fused, his esophagus is delicate and blisters and tears if he eats solid food. Right now he is in the Masonic Hospital in Minneapolis, on day 103 of his bone marrow transplant and he's not doing very well. This transplant isn't a cure - there is no cure - but they are hoping that once he starts getting better his condition will improve enough for him to function better. Imagine your child suffering the pain of severe, deep burns, having to bandaged from head to toe every other day (getting morphine and other pain killers and anxiety meds before the bandaging begins) and if you hug him to comfort him you risk his skin blistering and sloughing off from your touch. Yeah, that disease. But thanks to FB we all know what's going on from day to day, and his prayer circle just keeps expanding.

So I'm a FB fan. I'm able to see photos of my grandson and his wife in Chicago and get to "watch" my great grandkids grow. I don't get too much into the bad stuff on there - I can scroll down through the garbage and just follow the folks in my own life. Once I learned to ignore the trash, stay away from political, and focus on friends and family as a connection it's been great for me.