PRESENT

Mike was released from the hospital. He actually looked better and felt better. I was feeling pretty good. I think that maybe we were able to go out to dinner once and maybe to see a movie before he started failing again.Honestly I don't think he was out of the hospital for a week before he was admitted back into the hospital. The test the guessing the not knowing. This really brings us to present day. I already told you how they thought it was an infection, then it was a fungus. Then they did the biopsy, only to find out the cancer had spread to the lungs. In all he was in the hospital 17 days in the past month. Now he is home and just trying to regain his strength. We hope that he will be feeling better in the next couple of weeks. I had a long talk with Alex today. She has grown up so beautifully. I feel her maturity level has grown so much. She will think it over and decide wether or not she will come home and go to school here or commute back and forth to St. Louis. I miss her and we have a different appreciation for each other. Jenni will return back to New York next week to be with Jeff until the end of his season, there is a game tonight to determine wether they are still in the playoffs. I wish Jeff's team the best.

PAST

Working for Calimigos Ranch brought me a lot of experience and a lot more friends. We were having so much fun. My next door neighbor had a little girl Bobby's age Chloe. She was so cute and her and Bobby played so well together. Then 2 doors down my friend Karen had 2 boys one Alex's age and one Bobby's age. I was a Brownie mom and Mike was a T-ball dad. Jenni had her best friend Jessica right around the corner. My friends of 13 years Donna, Mimi, Toni, and Arthur would join us or meet for dinner often. My sister Janet would get a whim and fly us all on a trip in a moments notice. Life was like it was suppose to be FUN. We established a relationship with Jessica's parents Rick and Sylvia and became close to there family. People enter your life for a reason and for us it was always for good reasons. To this day we still have these relationships, maybe not as often but just as tight. There are times I wish I could go back and relive them.