pleasant weekend

All in all, I would say it's been a good weekend I got something to wear to Gallery of Hope. We went to a luau. Some friends came with us to visit our church today. It's been good. I have been reminded over the past week that it's so important to live life for each day and stop worrying about the minor stuff. You would think I had that down by now, huh? A sweet girl relapsed with leukemia last week. We love this girl and her family. When I stopped by to see her, she was all smiles. She is Hannah's age and the picture of loveliness. Cancer is such a horrid disease, yet she choses to smile and live each day to the fullest. Amazing. I think it's been a pretty rough week for a lot of us cancer moms. Palmer's relapse, another friend nearing the end of his battle, several newly diagnosed patients. It's just hard. I don't like all the struggles that have come along with all of this. The medical aspect of it all is hard enough - then you get hit with the other stuff.. .The emotional, the spiritual and the daily reminders of the financial. It bites. I told another friend that the OFFICIAL term was "This just sucks". Yep. It sucks.
I am in the process of making a list of all the things that are weighing me down (other than Eli having cancer) and I am trying to eliminate them or deal with them so they won't drive me nuts anymore. I am typically the kind of person who just avoids things and prays they go away.. but they don't. So now they eat me up inside. So.. I am going to try to deal with a few things to eliminate issues. Does that make sense? Oh well.. it does to me.. ha!
Labor day we will be taking Eli to the hospital for chemo - but it wont take long at all. Then Britt and I are going to be organizing some stuff around the house and getting it in presentable shape.. AND.. we are going to make more laundry soap!!! wooo hooo!!!
prayers for today: motivation to get things done in the house, time to do something special with Elijah, and mark one thing off my "get this off my list" list.. ha ha