Akathistos

I wanted to let everyone know that I have been updating my other blog: Our Little Monkeys.
I can’t keep up both right now.  I can barely keep up the one.
Thank you for everyone who has transitioned over to my other blog.

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As you know, my mom was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in a contained area in her acetabulum (hip bone).  With this diagnosis, she should be very sick, but miraculously, it has been contained and has not spread through her body.
However, since the prognosis is bad and there is a possibility that it could spread, it [...]

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Today my mom saw her oncologist, and he did another biopsy in her right hip bone.  He was able to retrieve bone, bone marrow and blood samples.  He said that the blood looked good.  If she were in an acute stage of leukemia, her blood would be thick and hard to remove, but hers looked [...]

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I first saw this meme on Mimi’s blog, but lots of other people have played along as well. The way to play along is by opening the fourth folder in your photo file and post the fourth picture in there.
I was pleasantly surprised by what I found: 12 weeks pregnant with my little man-

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Here are some details about what happened today with my mom’s procedure:

My mom was prepped and ready for the procedure when she noticed that the IV administering the numbing medication was leaving.  She told the resident; and that person fixed that problem.
She was awake the for entire procedure and was aware of everything that was [...]

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I had a horrible dream last night.
My whole family (grandparents included) were at the beach and my mom was having her biopsy done in the water.  It was terrible.  She was screaming and there was nothing that would could do.  I woke up feeling distraught and helpless.
Matthew 6:34 says, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, [...]

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I was so excited when Christina posted about this today!
I have been upset for months about the number of phone books that we receive.  We don’t even use them- I use the internet to look up everything.
Now you can go HERE and opt-out to stop receiving phone books.  Please consider doing this!  It just takes [...]

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My Uncle Bob is doing a little bit better!  He is still in ICU, but he is breathing much better and more aware than he was a few days ago. Thank you for your prayers.
My mom has already had a bone scan, chest xray and CAT scan.  The technician who did the bone scan told [...]

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I had never heard of a Jesse Tree until today, and now I am seeing it all over the place.
Deb posted about the project that she is a part of.
You can go to Festal Celebrations to view the project.
I thought about trying to do it for this year, but that isn’t going to happen.  I [...]

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We recently acquired a few small icons for the kids’ room.  I decided that I wanted to have a little icon corner to put them in.  Here is how I made the little display case:

I took the bottom part of a shoe box and cut it into two sections: one about 2/3 of the box [...]

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