and the beat goes on..

We have been painting the kitchen. If you have ever been in my house, you know that this kitchen had the ugliest and busiest wallpaper in it. It was awful. We successfully removed most of the wallpaper in the rest of the house (and there was a lot) but the paper in the kitchen was stuck pretty good.. and to unfinished sheetrock. This would have meant a lot of work - and a lot of repair to the walls. To make a long story short, we opted to prime and paint over the wallpaper. It looks fabulous!! I am so proud of Britt and how well this project is going so far! I don't have any "in progress" photos, but do have befores and will hopefully have afters in a few days. We are working really hard on getting our close closer to ready to sell. I pray that we can get it fixed up, relax for a month, and then sell it and move. We shall see how that goes.
Elijah is nearly done with chemo for this go around. Three more days and then we get a week off from the hospital - sort of. We have to go to clinic one day next week for labs and an exam. That will be a cake walk compared to the 5 hours a day we have been spending up there. We go to Philadelphia in three weeks. I pray that things are going in the right direction. I have had to write checks for three funerals for little kids for candlelighters in the past two weeks and have attended one. I can't imagine my life without Elijah. I can't imagine him going through the pain and suffering that some of these other children have endured toward the end of their short lives. I don't know how they do it, honestly - the parents. I guess they just do. I don't think I could get out of bed or speak to anyone for a long time, let alone speak at my own child's life celebration or continue to be an activist. Not for a while anyway. I have an extraordinary little boy. He is my best pal and constant companion. I couldn't breath if he weren't with me. I would die if I never again heard "hey mom!" followed by information on some strange creature he just saw on discovery channel. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't leave the hospital without him.
I wish all of this other "life" stuff would just stop and leave us alone for a while so we can be with Elijah and do fun silly things all day long. I want every birthday to be the "BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!" and for Halloween to be the MOST AMAZING EVER.. and for Christmas to be the MOST MAGICAL EVER! I want this for him and for Hannah always. I want the best of memories for my kids. I don't want any "we never got a chance to" or "we should have made time for that" or "we never got around to it" things lingering around. Those are the kinds of things that will bite you in the rear.
Life. It's today. so all this other crap that HAS to be done.. please go smoothly and quickly so that we may move on to more important things. Thanks. Love ya, Mean it, Buh Bye