May 22, 2012

A Sarah Video

Last Thursday, I posted that we were commemorating Sarah’s tenth anniversary of surviving Stage IV Neuroblastoma. Since we wanted our church family to be able to participate in our celebration , I started working on a short video of her story to play in Sunday morning’s service.  As the days went by though, it occurred to me that since the story is Sarah’s, and since she…

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May 21, 2012

Bubba In A Bike Basket (Snowy Writes.)

Hi. Snowy here. So here’s the thing. My really cool brother, Nathan, and his really cute wife sent Mom a bike basket for Mother’s Day.…

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May 18, 2012

Wild Anniversary Adventure (Day 3)

First of all, thanks to everyone who stopped by yesterday and joined us in our Sarah Celebration.   It’s hard for me to fathom that it has been ten whole years since our lives were changed so irrevocably.  Eating dinner with her last night and looking across the table to see her sweet, precious face just about brought me to tears. Thankful, indeed. We spent some…

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May 17, 2012

Ten.

TEN YEARS AGO, on May 17, 2002, we heard the words, “Your daughter has cancer. She has a 15% chance of surviving five years.  It’s very, very bad.” TEN MINUTES AGO,  I returned from taking my “probably won’t survive cancer”  daughter to High School, where she is earning straight A’s and doing great.  As I left the school parking lot, I wiped tears from my…

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