Happy Valentines day! Today is the day! Well, maybe this evening is or maybe tomorrow but I am one step closer to squaring off with one of my unrealistic fears....I am making cut out sugar cookies!!!! I have only made them (or attempted to make them) once in all of my life. It was a disaster!!! As I recall, the making of the dough took way too long and I had a terrible time getting the dough out of the cookie cutter. This year I bought a very pretty, bright red, heart shaped cookie thingy. My life has been a little on the busy side so I did not get the cookies made before Valentines day. I had grandiose plans of gifting my little treasures on this day but obviously I have found other things to do to keep me away from my fear of failure.....like blogging when I have nothing of interest to share :) See how this works....procrastinate long enough and I don't make Valentine cookies until next year. However the dough is made and it was remarkably easy. It is now in the refrigerator for 3 hours as per the recipe. Let's see, that will be after my bedtime which is 10:00 and I still need to roll out the dough AND then cut them out AND bake them! Way too late! I DO need to take care of myself and get a good nights rest. Yes, that excuse is perfect!
HEY! Fruit pizza! I use sugar cookie dough for that! Easy peasy....or.....I could cut out Easter egg cookies :(
Maybe shamrocks for St. Patrick's day....how long does cookie dough last in the frig?
A very peace filled day today. Oh how I wish I could bottle my peace and share it. God has given me another chance at this life and "live it" I must do! So many hurting people and that burden is not for me to carry. I need to lay all of this that scurries around in my head at the foot of the cross. God is the only one that can do ALL things. What a relief that is...
I need to go and ponder what I will do about the cookie dough that is calling out to me from the refrigerator.
Again, Happy Valentines day to you all!
Aug.2012
Mark and I ready for Blades wedding
The first ring
Dec. 7 2011
the bell of Victory!
Reading the plaque
Patients ring this bell on their last treatment.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
What a month this has been! Mark and I have been cleaning out Steve's apt. and putting some of his things in storage so his kids can go through them at a later date.
Steve's funeral service was packed with so many people that he had touched in one way or another. Mark and I were asked to be 2 of the pall bearers. We were honored to help carry his earthly body to its resting place.
It still seems very unreal to me that we will not see him here again.
One morning I woke up with the thought that it is time to move on. I think it was the morning after we had finished cleaning his place and gone out to dinner in his honor. We were all pretty grubby but we did not care because we were finally DONE! We took turns sharing stories of the outrageous stuff that we have experienced at the hands of Steve Seidel ;) Once in a while I would notice that someone would get a little misty eyed but quickly recovered with another belly laugh.
Anyway, the morning after, I felt that it was time to 'look to this day for it is good '.
Tonight Mark and I are playing grandma and grandpa and it will be fun! Life does go on and guess what? So does Love. Our love will go on for Steve even if he is not here with us physically.
Our new digs are coming along nicely and my sister is working on some tile designs for the back splash around my kitchen counter. Sounds very ethnic! I have chosen to throw in a little Mexican flair here and there...surprized? I have absolutely no artistic imagination so I am sort of at her mercy....which I hate. I am the big sister you know.
In a couple of weeks I go in for some blood work to see if all of the cancer cells were killed with the treatments. I am confident that they are dead as dead can be but I guess I will have to go in every 6 months for check ups for a while.
I am not feeling 100% yet but pretty dang close! There are daily reminders that I have been through quite a battle and that I cannot get complacent about my recovery.
Guess I gotta get off of this because I just lost a very witty paragraph and I can't remember what it was. Wonder where it went? I pressed the wrong key maybe.
My grand babies are ALL gorgeous...all five of them!
Good night all!
Steve's funeral service was packed with so many people that he had touched in one way or another. Mark and I were asked to be 2 of the pall bearers. We were honored to help carry his earthly body to its resting place.
It still seems very unreal to me that we will not see him here again.
One morning I woke up with the thought that it is time to move on. I think it was the morning after we had finished cleaning his place and gone out to dinner in his honor. We were all pretty grubby but we did not care because we were finally DONE! We took turns sharing stories of the outrageous stuff that we have experienced at the hands of Steve Seidel ;) Once in a while I would notice that someone would get a little misty eyed but quickly recovered with another belly laugh.
Anyway, the morning after, I felt that it was time to 'look to this day for it is good '.
Tonight Mark and I are playing grandma and grandpa and it will be fun! Life does go on and guess what? So does Love. Our love will go on for Steve even if he is not here with us physically.
Our new digs are coming along nicely and my sister is working on some tile designs for the back splash around my kitchen counter. Sounds very ethnic! I have chosen to throw in a little Mexican flair here and there...surprized? I have absolutely no artistic imagination so I am sort of at her mercy....which I hate. I am the big sister you know.
In a couple of weeks I go in for some blood work to see if all of the cancer cells were killed with the treatments. I am confident that they are dead as dead can be but I guess I will have to go in every 6 months for check ups for a while.
I am not feeling 100% yet but pretty dang close! There are daily reminders that I have been through quite a battle and that I cannot get complacent about my recovery.
Guess I gotta get off of this because I just lost a very witty paragraph and I can't remember what it was. Wonder where it went? I pressed the wrong key maybe.
My grand babies are ALL gorgeous...all five of them!
Good night all!
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