Thursday is Sarah’s 10th Bone Marrow Transplant Anniversary so I’m going to spend the days leading up  to Thursday featuring lots of Sarah Stuff.   I’ll get started with a Sarah Story that took place a couple of weeks ago.   A few days before Christmas, our church had a candlelight communion service .   We’ve done this service every year since we’ve been here; it’s…

When Snowy died in August,  we had our own little burial service for him; however, Steve, Sarah and I wanted to wait for Nathan to get home to actually install his little grave stone. And so Monday afternoon, right before Nathan and Meagan left to  fly back to Florida, we did our little family ceremony.  (And many thanks to our wonderful daughter-in-law for taking the…

Yesterday was Steve’s and my 31st wedding anniversary.  Although January 2 has been special in our lives for a long time, ten years ago that date came to have an added meaning in our lives because it was the day that Sarah was admitted to the bone marrow transplant floor of Duke University Hospital.  (She was there almost a month.)…

As we do almost every year, we spent Christmas Day with Steve’s parents in Charlotte.  Steve started a tradition last year of bringing along oysters to eat as an appetizer and so the Smith Men ate and the Smith Women watched the Smith Men eat.   (A perfect arrangement, in my opinion.)…