Oh my.
I can’t tell you what it did to my heart to see Jodi make the suggestion that Smithellaneous readers might want to help out Julia and her son. And then to see another half a dozen of you join in with her and say that you were also on board with it? Well, Steve, Sarah and I are all incredibly touched by your generous, giving hearts. I always knew I had the best readers around!
(Scroll to the end of this post for more info on how you can help.)
Comments and Kristina Creek
Last week as I was glancing through some old posts, I came across this one called, “Introduce Yourself.” This post stood out to me especially because it holds the all time record for the most comments ever collected on a single post–164!
You know, it recently occurred to me that all of you wonderful Smthellaneous friends probably have no earthly idea what I do on my job. (My non-blogging job, that is.) So just for the fun of it, I leafed through a couple of weeks in my Day Timer at work and picked out some activities to list here from that period of time.
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Sarah’s childhood friend, Victoria . . .
just posted this picture of the two of them on Facebook when they were both seven years old. (Sarah would have been about two months past her bone marrow transplant.)
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As promised, here is the recipe for the cake I made for Steve’s birthday. It’s a perfect springtime treat!
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It has been reported in some quarters that southern women don’t sweat, they glisten.
To that little piece of nonsense I say a most emphatic, “Ha.”
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Today Steve celebrates half a century plus half a decade plus one.
For those of you who are not good at math—like me—he turns fifty-six.
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I’ve had a lovely Mother’s Day.
I got a card and corsage from Steve this morning . . .
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Edited to add: Well you can see how much I know about flowers! When Steve first gave me the flowers (mentioned in the post below), I knew they were tulips. But for some reason, I got it in my head as I was writing the post this morning that they were daffodils. It wasn’t until I saw the funny comment he left that I realized my mistake. Oh well. Maybe my “medication brain” is hitting early!
I was talking to a friend a couple of weeks ago about my rheumatologist saying she was about 80% sure I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. He said, “Well, my mom goes to a rheumatologist who told her that if she would have come to him first, she wouldn’t be in the shape she’s in now.”
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On the afternoon of Sarah’s prom, I was up in her room taking a few pictures as she and Taylor finished getting ready. In the midst of our conversation Taylor suddenly said, “Oh, I just remembered! I left my corsage at my house; I’ll have to run back and get it.”
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Before Sarah’s prom last week, her friend Taylor came over to set her hair. When she was done, Sarah unearthed an old bandanna and wore it over the pin curls for several hours.
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