Thank You Ats

So, yesterday morning, my sister, Ate Grace, aka Ats, went back home to California. We have been blessed to have her here with us for 2 weeks. She was our personal nurse and cook and housekeeper when I got home from the hospital. We don't know what we would have done without her.THANK YOU SO VERY, Ats, from the bottom of our hearts. We are so blessed by your generosity and giving ways.  Don't even know how to thank you for all that you've done. thank you too, to Ross, Lauren and Mom because they also had to re-arrange their schedules and lives while Ats was here... I hope that Lauren will have some normalcy in her schedule now, since her Mommy's finally home. And I know Ats has friends in Stockton/Lodi who also helped out with picking up Lauren and taking her to school and to her many different lessons after school and then taking her home.. so thank you also, our dear friends...  may God bless you abundantly as you have blessed us.

So, it's now only my M'urse Frendell and I :-)  here... so far, he's done very well and is very calm and collected. I am so impressed with him... as much as he's said he feels like fainting, he hasn't yet :-)  I am so blessed in so many ways.. and if you're following this blog, you know what I'm talking about and you know that so many of you are part of my blessings.  

Tomorrow, Frank, Candy and the kids are coming. We're very excited and looking forward to having them here for a few days. It is times like these that make me long for heaven, so we can all be together in one place... it's very hard to be separated from the rest of our families for thousands of miles.. we are so grateful, though, that God has sent Froy here and so very many special friends who have become our family here too... the selfish part of me wishes we could all live close to each other... but the rational part of me knows that God has placed all of us in different places for a reason...   when I feel like whining and complaining, I blame it on the pain meds.. Frendell, my M'urse, calls it my morphine moments... and when the moment passes, I am thankful that God has invited us all to join Him in doing so many things in the areas where we live... I hope you all enjoy the sunshine today.. it's beautiful here in chicago.  I'll try to post more pictures soon :-)