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A good Saturday

This morning, we headed out to Oconomowoc Lake to spend a few hours at our friend, Becky’s parents’ house. Another friend of ours, Doug, is house/dog-sitting while Becky’s parents are in Tahoe for Becky’s brother’s wedding. We swam for a bit, and Noah is getting quite brave in the water. Caden, not so much. But […]

“Home run”

These are the words the neurosurgeon used regarding Elijah’s surgery today.

Liz called me tonight to let me know that the surgery was a great success today, they got “all” of the tumor (from what they can tell), and they believe it was a papilloma, the benign form of the tumor.

So far, Elijah […]

Moving ahead

Yesterday, Elijah had a successful embolectomy to block off the main blood source to the tumor. At this moment (7:13 am central time/8:13 eastern time) Elijah is in surgery to have the tumor removed. He’s in an “MR-OR” which has an MRI machine in the operating room so they can stop, take some images, and […]

Prayers for Elijah

My dear friend, Liz (“my friend from church”), has suddenly found herself in a place no parent ever wishes to be. Physically, she’s spending the weekend at Children’s Hospital Boston. Emotionally, she’s terrified over the new diagnosis of a brain tumor in her 3 1/2-month-old son, Elijah.

The other day, she noticed Elijah’s head seemed […]

Movie marathon

Well, not a marathon in the sense that it is normally used. But for a mom with young kids, 3 movies in 4 days is my version of a marathon!*

Technically, I only saw 2 movies in 4 days, but I went to the theater 3 times in 4 days, as I saw one of […]

The perfect ending…

…to a not-so-perfect day.

I just got back from dinner at North Star American Bistro with a crew of friends from high school. Yes, I’m still very good friends with a decent number of people from high school. It probably helps that a bunch of us married “incestuously” by marrying people from high school, myself […]

Yum!

I had my Wildtree party tonight, and there were 7 people that attended (including the Wildtree rep, my friend, Jamie). Not a big showing, but nice. And very tasty. Here’s what we had to eat:

Beer bread Garlic & Herb Blend (mixed with cream cheese) with pretzels Carol’s Cranberry Horseradish Blend (mixed with cream cheese) […]

Welcome, little Elijah!

My good friend, Liz, is a mommy for the third time! I actually called her this morning because I was thinking about her, not realizing that she was getting prepped for a second external version (that silly baby was butt down!), with the potential for a c-section. She didn’t answer, and I was a little […]