The temp is supposed to get up to 45 today! and over 50 tomorrow! It sure will feel like a heat wave after highs in the teens and 20’s!

Today I’m going to actually hang laundry on the line! It seems like its been so long since I’ve done that. Don’t worry, I haven’t been using the dryer! I’ve been using drying racks in the house.

And after doing the minimum of schoolwork (Bible, Bible Drill and Math) I’m sending Abby and Zach outside to run around. and around and around! It has been so cold, I haven’t let them out side longer than it takes to get in the van to go somewhere. So as you can imagine, they are bouncing off the walls….and the furniture….and each other. lol

I also need to make more bread, even though I just made 2 loaves yesterday. We ate one with supper. lol fresh baked bread doesn’t last very long around here. lol If the turkey is defrosted, I shall bake a turkey. I bought several when they were on sale before Thanksgiving. And I’m sure I’ll have to make some more snacks of some kind for the kids. They think their hungry all the time!

I got the lab results for Hannah yesterday. Everything was negative (arthritis, gout, lupus) She is a little anemic and her monocytes were just a little above normal, so she must be fight off a virus of some kinds. But that doesn’t explain the toe. So must have hit it and just doesn’t remember. But she has to finish the antibiotics as the doc said it was possible that there was an infection going on in the tissue (redness, hotness, etc.) So we’re kind of at a stand still with “Hop a long Hannah”. Just have to wait for her toe to heal. We are thank the LORD that her tests were negative! She in the meantime, has no objections, whatsoever, to sitting on the couch covered in blankets with the heating pad on her toe! lol

Well, I’m off to start some laundry and check on the turkey.

It has been soooo cold here! Like single digit cold! and the ice! and the snow! Well, not a lot of snow, like in Boston! Just enough snow to hid the ice underneath, can you spell dangerous?? I managed to stay upright, put while going up the ramp to the drs office, I started sliding backwards. No, really, I did! “I’m sliding!” I said, (yelled, whatever) and my wonderful husband came to my rescue.

By the time we got out of the drs office, the ice and melted. Our entire road was an ice rink when we left, and when we got back it was just wet. Unbelievable, since the temp was still in the 20’s.

DH stayed home from work this morning to drive us to the drs. I don’t drive on ice. ever. You see, Hannah has been having toe trouble, pain, swelling, bruising, red, hot, etc. etc. with no known injury. So she had to go for an xray. The doc saw a tiny mark that could possibly indicate that something was dropped on the toe. Hannah says no. And that doesn’t explain the other toes. She also had blood drawn to check for arthritis and gout. So we’ll have to wait for those results.

But, as you can tell, she’s making the best of it. Under the blanket she has ice on her toes. Hey, it’s winter, who wants to ice their toes! Notice the chocolate on the desk. lol

And now DH is having to work late because he took the morning off. I understand (that he was to make up the work), and he’s bummed. He really hates having to work late, he likes evenings with his family. 🙁

Well, time to get back to work, ya the usual, dishes, laundry, ironing…the list never ends……….

I just took this picture.

Not good for the old electric bill when the heat goes on every 15-20 minutes. The thermostat is already set on 62, you can’t go much lower than that, and still call it “heat”!

Tonight, I did something that was brutally hard for me.

I went, with the kids, to the viewing of a 12 year old girl that died of leukemia.

The kids have been to lots of viewings and funerals for my family, but this was the first one that we went to for a child. I wasn’t sure how they were going to take it. But they did better than I did, I think.

They had a closed casket. Which is understandable, since she had lost a LOT of weight. I was surprised, but thinking about it, it seems like a good idea. They had LOTS of pink roses on top of the casket, like completely covering it. With pink ribbons that said “Princess Brooklyn” on them.

Statistically speaking, she should still be here. She had the “good kind” of leukemia after all. Seriously, that’s what they (the dr.s) tell you when your child is diagnosed with ALL.

She had the cell lineage with the higher cure rate, and Calen had the cell lineage with the lower cure rate. Yet, she died.

Our God is not a God of statistics. And we have to accept His will, even when we don’t understand it.

Yeah, I know, this post is a mess of jumbled thoughts. But this has affected me deeply. It was all I could do to get out of the funeral home without crying. Yeah, I had tears in my eyes, but I wasn’t sobbing. I thought I was going to cry all the way home. I would have, if it hadn’t been for the kids. I held it together for them. They don’t understand it either.

It really warms my heart to hear them now praying for the Lord to comfort Brooklyns family.

I HATE cancer!!