It has been a busy week with an eye shot on Tuesday, an appointment with the urologist on Thursday, and a pre-op physical Friday morning. I went right from the physical to the cancer center where I had lab work, an appointment with the oncologist, and two more injections. The doctor noticed more positive changes in the breast! The treatments are working. I will enjoy having the weekend off before surgery prep on Tuesday and surgery on Wed. to remove 3 large stone in my rt kidney. That will require an overnight stay as they go in through my back, placing a tube in my kidney. Then the doctor goes in through the tube to take out the stones. Prayers appreciated.
We have been enjoying some Christmas music and a few Christmas TV shows. It always takes me back to some of our best memories of Christmases in the past. With the weather, decorations, cards arriving in the mail, and the music and TV shows, "It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas........."
The first year we moved to west central Minnesota, my extended family came for Christmas. We moved in November 1989. It was cold and snowy, but everyone came north to join us for the holiday, and everyone stayed at our house. Yep. Around 30 people crowded into our home with their suitcases, presents, and bodies. Most of the kids were younger so that helped. The basement had just been finished so we had spent 6 weeks with church volunteers building, sheet rocking, carpeting, and painting rooms before they came. The heat vents had not been installed correctly so even tho we had the heat blaring, it was dang cold in the basement. My brother told me there was a wind chill in the family room where they guys all watched football, and many people slept. Yikes!
That was the same year that Joel's parents came for Christmas Day dinner and we served them pumpkin pie before they headed home. Later, when the rest of us had pie we were stunned to realize that we had forgotten to put the sugar in the pie! Joel's folks never said a word, just quietly ate their pie and left for home! I would have loved to have been in on their conversation as they headed back to their place. We have laughed over that sugarless pie story for years!
We had moved hours away from our previous call, to "the middle of nowhere" as one family member expressed so eloquently. It was not an easy drive to get to our very small town. But that year everyone packed up and made the trip. It is a Christmas we have never forgotten 30 people crowded into a house with 6 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and made it all work! Oh, and someone had strep throat so many of us ended up sick in bed with it ourselves! It still makes me smile when I think about that Holiday gathering.
I am sure all of you have Christmas stories to share that make you smile or laugh out loud! Stories about family, fellowship, and maybe even a few sugarless pies! Memories held dear. And, hopefully, many more to come!
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