The 4th of July weekend

Well we had a nice weekend! Now at first mom was sleeping a lot but on Saturday we had plans for Brian/Paula and the kids to come over to swim and watch the Grove City Fireworks. Well, mom was dragging and down but we got her up and moving (it took a bit but we did it). She ended up hanging out all day or most of the day by the pool then her and Brian went to get flowers for these big pots at the end of our pool. The flowers look great but ah just something else for me to water lol.

You know the nurse said she needs to make sure she get her exercise so I wonder if I DONT go out and water will that spur her on to doing it herself? Hmmm have to think about that one :)

Well like I said we had a good weekend and she enjoyed Brians' being around. Now the baby in the picture is Keegan, no he is not mine dont worry haha. It is our neighbors (Jan and Keith) grandson (parents are Steve and Sasha) He is only like 2 months and he is just a doll! Steve and Sasha you take good care of him and I am here when you want to go out to eat with Keith and Jan and not take the baby!!!!!

All of us ended up watching the fireworks and Natalie and her man Jess came too. It was all very nice. After the fireworks our other neighbor Mona had some other friends over and they all, Jean-Mona-Kathy-Wil-Betsy came over to say hi to mom and that really made mom happy. She really did enjoy all the people.

Now for the next day, that was a different story. Of course dad was up early as usual but Paige and I slept until noon and I dont think mom got out of bed until 2ish. She stayed up for a couple hours but then went back to lay down around 4 ish got up again and then eventually to bed for the night. She manage to go out back and water her "new" plants but as for the rest no water!

Sunday was very much a "rest" day. Paige and I watched a ton of movies and just chilled. Dad did whatever and mom slept most of the day. I think that day of rest was good for ALL of us, because Monday we were ALL up early and hung outside ALL day.

I was bound and determined not to let mom sleep all day and she didnt she actually got up around 9 and was up for the entire day. Mom, Paige and I just hung out back, watered the flowers, trimmed and cut the flowers, swam, sat in the sun and just chilled again. It was another, very good day for ALL.

Tomorrow mom has her PET Scan in the afternoon and then hair cut on Wednesday and first Chemo on Thursday. We are all prepared for the Chemo with medicines and such that they suggest and so forth.

However, the prayer we/mom needs is for strength for the Chemo. We need prayer for her mindset. We need her to be strong and rebuke any and all side effects from the treatment except for the good stuff like lessen her pain and STOP/RETARD the spread of the cancer cells. We need her to have a positive attitude and not believe that it will take her down. I hope you all know what I am saying. Mom is a strong person, and some of you really know that about her, so now she needs to focus that strength and conviction on this chemo!!! She also needs the strength to do what she is told to go to help this process ie like not sleep, eat, drink lots of water and get some exercise. It must be hard to push yourself for this stuff but she really does have a good TEAM behind. I think Tracy calls it "Team Connie".

So send her encouraging texts, voice mails, emails whatever just send them to her lets bombard her with positive thoughts and words! I think that will help greatly.