Hump Day

Wednesday

I've been kind of slacking with my blogging lately. I've had some more issues in dealing with my Mom and her symptoms that have been really bothersome. As it is turning out, she has about 6 or 7 of the 10 or so symptoms for inflammatory breast cancer. This is not the type of breast cancer that gives you a lump in your breast. So it is hard to detect and most doctors do not even know about it.

She is going in for a surgical biopsy next week and then it will probably take another week to get the results back. But she went in and had a nurse at a Breast Cancer Center examine her and told her it did not look good and she definitely needed the biopsy. So, pardon my absence, that has taken a great deal of my time and energy lately.

On Monday I, at the last minute, invited a friend over for lunch. She came over and brought her 2 kids as well as one she was babysitting. We all ate and had great conversation. It was lots of fun.

This particular friend recently found herself divorced, her husband left her for another woman a year or so ago, and so she is dating again. So she told me all about the ups and downs of that. We toured my house and I showed her all that we were working on around here. Anyway, it was just enjoyable to gab and catch up. She and I team teach our Sunbeam class and we seldom get a chance to do any catching up at church.

On Monday late afternoon it started raining.

The rainy day.

It was a downpour from then until sometime in the night last night. It was really a good, soaking rain. We don't get rain like that too often around here and so it was good to get. But since we have nothing but dirt in our yard (on all 4 sides), our yard is now mud!

Rilyn and Tyler looking out the sliding glass door, wishing they could go out.

The birds took up residence on our front porch and I could hear them chirping most of the day yesterday. That was sweet and enjoyable! Because it was rainy and kind of bleak out I made Chili for dinner and homemade bread. As I was taking the bread out of the oven, I kept thinking I should be sharing the bread with someone else too. Then when Laren called on his way home from work it donned on me that I should take it to our elderly neighbor, Wilbur, and his wife since she has been sick with Shingles.

Bread in the making. I forgot to get a picture of the loaves before they were devoured. Now they are all gone!

So Kyle, Alyssa, Rilyn and I set out in the rain with our umbrella's and hot bread to take to the neighbors. It was nice to finally meet Wilbur's wife (even though I have already forgotten her name!). They are a nice couple in their 80's or so. My kids loved them because they had a couple of candy dishes and they were so insistent that my kids have some!

We ended up having Family Home Evening last night since Kayla has running club on Mondays and Kyle has baseball. Laren made some whipping cream for the Angel Food Cake we had bought and I went up to our room to watch some TV so I would not have to be around during the dessert and be tempted! The homemade bread has already blown my calorie budget!!

This morning, after getting the kids off to school, Tyler and I went visiting teaching. The gal I visit is also going to Women's Conference next week, as am I and also my sister. But she is going with a friend and I'm flying over with my sister. It should be a fun weekend.

And yesterday, because it was so rainy I forgot to check my mail. So I went to my mailbox this morning and found this sweet surprise, "just because" from Jenny.

A GOOD MAIL package, "Just Because!" And it couldn't have come on a better day.

Some cute purple ribbon with pink flowers, some K sticky notes, a flower sticky note pad, and a stamp that says,

"of all possessions, a FRIEND is the MOST PRECIOUS."

what a great saying!

Thank you Jenny, I LOVE all of it!! And you really cheered me up on this difficult day!