The Anniversary

Yesterday was Gunner and my 8 year wedding anniversary. We have been together for 19 years but have only been married the last 8.

Mom stopped by to give us a little money for our anniversary on her way home from Chemo and she had some good news. The radiation has gotten rid of the cancer in her lungs and its working its way through the breast cancer. So much so thst last Friday she had some dead tumors removed so that way they can do some more intensive radiation. She still has the cancer up her back bone but they are thinking that the chemo that she is on now while giving her skin time to heal from radiation burns may actually take care of that. So Mom might actually go into remission in 6-8 months. That would be so great! That would mean she would have gone from stage 4 cancer that they told us that she would not have more then 18 months - 2 years to a year later possably going into remission. That would be so great! So that was pretty much the best anniversary gift I could have gotten. I am continuing to pray that God will take care of this. He has gotten our family through so many hard times. I don'ot see why he couldn't get us through this one too.

Tomorrow, since it's Yom Kippur public school is off but Rando has school. So I am going to get KJ up and ready like i would any other day but I will just not drop him off at school. I like when we have a set rutine and on school nights we keep to it. When KJ knows we have no school he stays up late and steals snacks from the treat bin in the middle of the night. If I dont say anything to him until I pass by his school then that will be a super big surprise for him.

I have a super duper crafty friend who does her own maintaince on her house and can pick up an old piece of free furniture off the side of the road and make 2-3 pieces of awesome crafty furniture or decorative stuff. She has a very small kitchen just like I do and has very little counter space. Well, she made sink and stove covers that just go right over the sink and stove so she can have a little extra  counter space. I thought was total cool and I mentioned that I hated how poorly lit my kitchen was and the only place that got any light was the kitchen sink where the big window was. So she made me a sink cover and I have to say it is AWESOME! Its like a movable kitchen desk top. I keep it over the sink to work on projects and things like during the day and after lunch and dinner I move it onto the stove with all the stuff exactly where it is still on it. Then I can wash dishes and clean off the table and when i am all done, I move it back onto the sink and its as if it was always there. I LOVE IT! I wish I could be as crafty as her but God did not bless me with crafty or artsy skills. 

We had a back yard camp out this weekend. It went very well and the boys had a great time. Rando woke up around 3:30am and crawled into my sleeping back with me which forced me to sleep on my side the rest of the night but it was worth the aching back in the morning just getting that extra time to snuggle my big BIG boy.