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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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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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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As promised, today’s post features some prom pictures of a certain favorite daughter of ours.
The prom prep started about 3 pm last Saturday with the arrival of Taylor who came early to assist Sarah with hair and make up–since I am not at all gifted in those areas.
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This Saturday is the prom at Sarah’s High School. She hadn’t planned to attend and I really wasn’t all that gung-ho about her going since I’ve heard more than a few wild stories from prom-goers over the years.
Today’s post is a favorite (rewritten and improved) classic from the archives.
November 2008
Yesterday as I was gathering some things to take to a consignment store, I came across some of Sarah’s special dresses–those little velvet, swishy dresses she wore when she was still young enough to be called a little girl.
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Although Sarah doesn’t yet have her driver’s license, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t enjoy perusing cars in the area and thinking about which one she might want to eventually buy.
This car came to her attention a few days ago.
Saturday was such a gorgeous spring day that Steve, Sarah and I decided to hop in the car and go riding. We ended up at Pea Island Wildlife Refuge, which is about 20 minutes from our house.
Tuesday morning, Sarah and I made a last-minute decision to take a spring break road trip to Chesapeake, VA which is our nearest large-ish city. When you live in a small town, it’s always inordinately exciting to go some place that’s bigger.
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Last Tuesday was Bring a Parent To School Day at Manteo High School. I attended in the morning and Steve in the afternoon.
The morning’s line up included Advanced Placement English which made me exceedingly happy since as you probably know by now, I’m a big time word gal. It was fascinating to listen to the teacher talk about all manner of literary devices like anthropomorphism, metonymy, and portmanteau as she prepared the students for their upcoming AP exams. I was in heaven!
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I had a whole memory card full of pictures which I was planning to write a post around. However, when I put the card in my computer, no pictures emerged. Since I had just looked at the pictures (on my camera) before going to bed last night, I figured that some weird thing had happened overnight and they had erased themselves. So I downloaded Recuva which does a good job of recovering photos that you are think are long gone.
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