Catching Up

I have been meaning to write a blog for sometime now, but when I sit down to compose my thoughts I haven't been able to write....I somehow think I have nothing to write about and yet I know I do. So, let's start with the fall beauty. I can't remember when I have seen such a beautiful fall. The color in the leaves has just been unbelieveable. I didn't think it would be a pretty fall since it has been so dry, but my goodness was I wrong. I guess the rain and frost came at just the right time and it has been beautiful. I think fall is my favorite season!

There has been so many good things happening. First Fred had his prostate cancer surgery and that went very well and all the test results show that everything is just as predicted before the surgery. The margins are clean and the cancer low grade and confined to the just the prostate. We are truly lucky and thankful. He is recovering very well and I am trying to be a good nurse, but I can tell you this I make a better teacher then a nurse. I went to the doctor with him to have his incision checked, and almost fainted...some nurse I am.

My friend Ann, who is fighting a rare form of lymphnoma and has undergone eight heavy chemo treatments got the good news that she is in remission. Now if she can hold it there for five years she will be declared cancer free. I just hope and pray that things continue to go well for her.

My friend Heather and her husband have a beautiful baby daughter and even though it was a difficult delivery, with Heather ending up with a C section they seem to be doing well and Zora is absolutely beautiful!

I am working on Christmas gifts and making a Christmas Countdown for my granddaugher Olivia. It has been a learning experience since this is somewhat different then what I had made for my own children when they were younger. It looks like it will turn out great and I can get it in the mail to her soon.

I promise I will try to learn how to include pictures on this blog, all my dear friends who blog know how to do that and I don't have anyone to teach me so......Holli, Shana, Heather teach me!

I can hardly believe it is so close to Thanksgiving . Where does the time go? I thought I would have all this extra time now that I am retired, but somehow I don't. I guess it could be that I am finding more and more projects to occupy my time...like my new sewing machine that I am really enjoying. Well I guess I have wandered on enough topics for today and I hear a project calling me before I go to teach my afternoon speech class.

Gotta love the internet

You know what folks, you gotta love the internet. I know it doesn't take the place of face to face communication, or getting a letter by snail mail, but it certainly does have its perks!! For those of you who know me know I was a teacher for 34 years. During those years I taught some really awesome students and so I often think about some of those wonderful people and wonder what on earth happened to them. Well, the internet and facebook have helped me reconnect with some of those folks. It is really great to hear from a student who is living in London and loving life or one who is in NY and is having her play presented in our home town this month. It is so rewarding to here from one who really had a difficult home and is now a successful lawyer in Philly. Yes, you have got to love the internet because it has given me some really great connections with some really great people and that makes me really, really happy!! I really love the word really!! Can you tell... really? Got to get back to my facebook page and see who else from my past has found me!!!

Learning every day.

I just finished reading a friend's blog about how she has learned some things this past week and I can relate to her thoughts. Although she is a young mother of three boys (yes Shanan I do mean you) I know where she is coming from. Every day I learn something about myself. I have learned that I can work as hard as I want for the day and if I finish the project ok and if I don't that too is ok. I have learned that I can handle difficult times and events if I just take a minute to stop and collect myself. I know that life is not always easy, but it isn't always difficult either. Some days I just want to have fun and other days I want to work and that's ok too. So folks, don't ever stop learning about yourself!! It is soooo much fun to discover new and exciting things!!