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More Scans

January 16, 2012 Uncategorized

We’re at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. Ian’s back getting his next follow-up series of MRI scans – brain and full spine, and I’m here chasing a baby around the waiting area, while trying to convince a couple more girls to do some more of the phonics & math sheets we brought with, while attempting to [...]

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I’ll Never Get Used To It

January 10, 2012 Uncategorized

“Okay. Yep. Sounds good. Thanks.” It all seemed so casual, so matter-of-fact. Discharge from the rehab facility on Wednesday More Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, & Physical Therapy evaluations at another out-patient rehab place on Friday More full spine & brain MRIs on Monday Another lumbar puncture & appointment with oncologist to go over all of [...]

Tagged as: chemotherapy, Ian

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Joy to the World! {A Sunday Song}

December 25, 2011 Sunday Hymn

Joy to the world! The Lord has come! Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n, and heav’n and nature sing. Joy to the world! The Savior reigns! let men their songs emply; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and [...]

Tagged as: Sunday Hymn

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I Keep Starting Posts

December 10, 2011 Uncategorized

I sit down, stare blankly, think of something to write about, come up with a title, stare blankly some more… And then I do it again the next day, and later again that afternoon… It’s becoming a habit. I had wanted to post all kinds of fabulous pictures from all of our fun fall field [...]

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He Is Faithful

November 28, 2011 Uncategorized

“HE is faithful, even when we simply do not understand!” part of a comment, left by bonny, on my last post… Such truth. He IS faithful, always has been, always will be. It’s just true. It’s one of those things about Him, one of those true, good, perfect, and unchanging things about Him that make [...]

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It Was a Different Kind of Sunday

November 21, 2011 Uncategorized

“It’s basically excruciating…” He was referring to the pain in his feet, nerve pain, one of the unpleasant side-effects of the “low-dose” chemotherapy drug Vincristine. And this was supposed to be the easy stuff. Ian received 6 doses of Vincristine, one each week while he was undergoing Proton Therapy. It was the chemo part of [...]

Tagged as: cancer, chemotherapy, side-effects, Vincristine

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All Is Quiet On My Western Front

November 4, 2011 Uncategorized

Out my back door… There is a bit of a lull* these days, and yes, I’m loving it. I drove myself and all 8 kids home to east central Minnesota from Bloomington, IN, across 4 lovely states, with many bathroom and breastfeeding stops along the way, in just under 15 hrs, 2 weeks ago today. [...]

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We’re Back!

October 24, 2011 Uncategorized

I woke up at 5, nursed the baby, put her in a fresh diaper, then proceeded to wake the rest of the children, one by one, sending them to use the restroom, putting their shoes and sweatshirts on (we all slept in our travel clothes, oh yes we did, don’t judge me), and then we [...]

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