I’ve had so much to blog about lately, but no time to sit down and write! This week, hockey started for Son 1, the in-laws are in town, thankfully my husband is in town as well, the Michigan Breast Cancer 3-Day starts this Friday and I’m down to the wire to finish a photo book for my dad. To make matters worse, I came down with a stomach bug this past Thursday and couldn’t keep anything down for two days. Not what I needed to deal with right now. My body has definetely been screaming at me to “slow down” , but unfortunately it will have to wait until next week!
Son 1 is finally back from camp – yay! We picked him up this weekend, driving up on Saturday to watch his musical theater performance, staying in a local hotel and then back to camp on Sunday for his choir performances and the drive home. He had a great time and I am so glad he enjoyed himself but I am also very happy to have him back home. Ten days without hearing his voice or seeing his face was quite rough on me but I made it through. We are truly enjoying all of his stories and experiences he’s shared with us about his time at camp.
As I previously mentioned, I am walking this week in the Michigan Breast Cancer 3-Day. This is the third year I will be doing the walk and I have lots of wonderful stories to share, but they’ll have to wait for another time. The Breast Cancer 3-Day, which is held in various cities throughout the year, is a 60 mile walk over 3 days to raise funds and awareness in the fight against breast cancer. Each walker must raise $2300 in order to walk. The Michigan 3-Day starts this Friday and unlike the rest of this wonderfully cool summer, it will be hot on Friday and Saturday and Sunday – not fun! My husband, family and friends will be setting up their own cheering station again this year to pass out refreshments to the walkers. Last year, they cut up and passed out 14 watermelons, 12 pounds of grapes and about 2 dozen cases of water and gatorade. Also, last year I was honored to be chosen to carry the “Myself” flag in the opening and closing ceremonies.
The last thing I have on my plate this week is to finish up a bound Creative Memories Storybook I am making for my dad for his 70th birthday. His birthday, along with the surprise party, is on August 29th and CM needs 7-10 business days to print and bind the book so it needs to be done before the walk this Friday. I have had a lot of fun going through our family’s old pictures and putting the book together – too much fun and that’s why it’s not done yet. The most time consuming part has been choosing and then scanning up all of the old family photos but I know it will be something he loves as well as a cherished family heirloom. I am doing the book digitally and then uploading it to have it printed and bound. On that note, here are some pics of my brothers and I from the 1970′s that made it into my dad’s book.
Have a great rest of the week and weekend. I’ll be blogging next week about this year’s 3-Day and a great chicken soup recipe I got from a good friend and now ex-neighbor. She always brought it over to me the day before each of my chemo treatments and so it’s lovingly called “Friday Chemo Chicken Noodle Soup.” I made it again last week while I was sick and wanted to post it, but unfortunately, I ran out of time!
