Week in Review

The week started out kinda crappy as my uncle passed away suddenly on Monday. He left behind a wife, three grown kids, four grandkids, and a lot of heartache. It was my dad’s youngest brother and it’s been really hard on him. I feel horrible because my poor sister is the one there to try to deal with everything my parents go through. Its times like this that I thank God my sister is such a strong person and handles things so well and it’s also times like this that I hate being so far away. Death is such a hard thing to suffer through and it sucks not being able to be there for the ones I love most during it.

At work I am also dealing with an unfortunate situation. A co-worker, a very good friend was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year at the ripe age of 27. Initially her prognosis was good and she was expected to make a complete recovery after a few rounds of chemo and radiation. Not the case at all. Each and every visit seemed to bring her more bad news and these past two weeks have been complete downhill. On Monday she was placed on hospice and her days/weeks are limited. Each of us at work is struggling with this one. Although I completely believe in a higher power and believe that she’s the lucky one, she’s completed her earthly journey, and gets to go to a better place, pain free. It still sucks. It still seems so unfair. She is just so young.
I got this quote from one of the books I reread often…"You will never be completely happy on earth simply because you were not made for earth. Oh, you will have moments of joy. You will catch glimpses of light. You will know moments or even days of peace. But they simply do not compare with the happiness that lies ahead." Max Lucado
It doesn’t make the heartache go away, it won’t keep the tears from flowing, but it makes me know without hope what would we have.

On a lighter note, I got to visit with a good friend that I hadn’t seen in almost 2 years on Thursday. A friend from Amery (where we used to live) and her boys came and spent the day with us Thursday. It was so nice to sit and chat nonstop (we are both such talkers!) with her and catch up. It helped that all the boys were so good and played outside for pretty much the entire day. Thanks Peggy for making the effort to get here to see us. It’s our turn now so we will be road tripping your way soon…..and nope we aren’t going to wait 2 years to do it!!

Friday night Jason treated me and a few of my friends to his excellent eggrolls. It really doesn’t help any diet plan when your husband is such a good cook and that he really enjoys doing it. He also experimented with crab Rangoon. They all thought it turned out good. I am not a fan of crab Rangoon in the first place.
Today we took Kamden, Kahne and Kamdens friend from school Bryce to Chuck E Cheeses in Burnsville, MN. We had so much fun and the boys were all so well behaved. Chuck E Cheeses is definitely geared towards the younger age, which was great as all the boys could pretty much do all the games. It’s actually quite cheap there too as every game only took one token. It was nice to not have to be putting multiple tokens in a machine to play.

Been up way too late way too many nights in a row lately…I best get myself all tucked in!!

Hopefully some pictures next week!