Monday, August 3, 2009

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

I know, I should be packing and getting ready for my big trip tomorrow, but after receiving an email from the American Cancer Society today on the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, I put a lot of time and energy into starting a team and getting my "site" up and running.

Soon after my friend, Helle, died several months ago I swore that I'd try to do something to join the fight against breast cancer.

Please join us or if you can't walk, please consider donating to this worthwhile cause.

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=12593530&pg=personal&fr_id=19932&s_src=PPCviewpage

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Just checking in

Friday I packed the girls up and headed for Rowan University in NJ. We took a pretty good route and still ended up getting there in 3 hours 45 min. It "should" take under 3 hours. Of course, Mapquest never factors in traffic! Returning today took even longer. The girls were great and Rich made it really great by getting back first and going to The Little Kitchen for take out and Trader Joe's for some items. We actually had a healthy meal on the tail end of a weekend!

Camp was good. It's always good to reconnect with old friends we've known over our 6 years of being an adoptive family. We saw a family from our first travel group that came all the way from MI! We saw another family from our second group, too. Friends we see at home came with their 2 year old, which was great for Lola. They enjoyed being in the same group.

Grace did a great job sticking to her GF/CF diet. There were a few tense moments, but for the most part she is doing really great. I don't know if I'm seeing any behavioral improvements, though. I'll have to say that since starting this diet, Rich has started his own healthful eating plan, complete with calorie counting app on his iphone and is doing remarkably well. I think it's the fun technology that's keeping him interested. The last I'd heard he'd lost 4 lbs.

Tomorrow is cleaning lady day. That means the cleaning ladies come and I "clean" in front of them so they can actually clean. Then I've got loads of laundry and errands. We're heading out for Keuka on Tuesday morning. We're meeting up with my sister and her partner from CA and my brother, his wife and son from NJ and my parents. Should be a fun week!

I'll also catch up with one of my long-time friends that also lives in CA. We have a day planned for Thursday. Rich will come Friday and Saturday we leave for Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, Canada. While up there we'll visit a friend of his from work that is from Canada and will be home for the weekend and also my aunt and uncle that have a cottage on Lake Erie.

I'm still suffering from the poison whatever that got me. I've been amazed to see it "spread" from one arm to many parts of my body, including my face and eyelids! I've been an itchy mess and wish I had gone to the doctor. I feel like I must be on the mend now and going to the doctor might be pointless. Frankly, I don't have a doctor for myself! I was thinking that if it had been one of my kids that had this kind of rash show up on them that I would have had them at the doctor's office as soon as possible! Sad how moms don't take as good of care of themselves as they do of their kids! With that, I'll give myself the gift of sleep!