I will not be moved, Part 2

Hey, hey everybody. First, thank you to everybody who left comments on my last blog, it really brought me a lot of joy! Second, thank you for your prayers, it means more us than you will ever know.

Wow, the weather has been FANTASTIC lately! I wish it could be FALL year round! I just look around and see God's beauty, the way He intended His creation to be from the very beginning. God is truly Glorious! The heavens tell of His Glory!

I am looking semi-forward to a weekend at home this week. We will not be traveling to my parents house this weekend. However, we plan to meet up in E-town Sunday evening for dinner. I just don't like going a whole week and weekend without seeing them. I look forward to sleeping in my own bed, having the dogs here where we can leave them outside and not have to worry about them crossing the boundary line, like they try to do at Grandma and Grandpa's.

Mom looked good this last weekend, except for Sunday. When I arrived Saturday afternoon, she wanted to go shopping and we were off. I was so excited about this. We had a good time and found some cute clothes especially some cute underwear! I was totally jealous of the underwear. We had a good dinner as a family and the evening was good. The next morning we were going to attend my Aunt's church. I needed to take a shower, so dad relieved me from watching the dogs outside. I went into my parents bathroom to get a maxi-pad and mom was hunched over the toilet. She was throwing up. Mind you, the chemo is out of her system now. I just rubbed her back for a minute or so and then I got dad. We don't know what caused her to throw up, but it rueined the rest of the day for her. Dad and I attended Jen's church and then we went home. Mom was very tired and nauseated. Most of the day she spent sleeping. That evening I had a really good talk with her, one I needed to have for a while and it went splendiforous. Out of it, we decided to have 'Porch Time' every weekend. This consits of sometime during the weekend, her and I go to the porch and just talk, be silent, cry, enjoy nature, etc. She was very honest though, she made sure to assure me that there will come times when 'Porch Time' might not happen due to the cancer. Surprisingly, I was okay with that, becuase I know there will come a day when the cancer will do things to her that I can't even fathom.

Dad and I had a good time too. I notice that we are talking more, just about stuff. And I am really enjoying that! Dad is loving on the dogs and that just warms my heart. I think he's getting a little soft spot for them in his heart, even for Crazy Maya!

I was very encouraged to see that it seemed her retaining of water had gone down a lot! I figured when I got there on Saturday, she would need to be drained again. But, she said she was doing okay with that. And it was not until I left on Monday that she felt she was starting to feel a little pressure again. Wow, that was a whole week without being drained! I think the chemo in her body had revved up that process for some reason and now that the chemo was out of her system, it was not retaining as fast! I also, believe a lot of prayers have granted this great miracled also! Keep up the prayers!

Michael and I doing well. He did not get to go with me this last weekend and we greatly missed each other.

Life is keeping us busy and I am really looking forward to our vacation in November to St. George Island!

Here are some of our prayers requests:
1. Our vacation begins Nov. 8th, please pray mightily that mom will be well enough to go. That is why we are taking this trip, is to spend a meaningful time with family. Pray especially, that she will not retain water quickly, that all forms of throwing up would diminish and that no disease against her would prosper during that time.

2. Pray for my mind, that I would let it and my heart be protected by the armor of Almighty God.

How can we be praying for you, list your requests with your comments.

Love to you all, and thank you so much for being such faithful readers!

NChrist,
Susan