Owen Greene

I finally heard from the coordinator at Tim's school. Here is a link to the Greene family blog if you'd like to read about Owen and follow his progress. He does have neuroblastoma and just completed his 3rd round of chemo. Please add him and the Greene family to your prayers.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/owengreene


It's following the courageous stuggle of families like Owen's and Leslie's...their strength in the face of adversity is so incredibly inspirational. It humbles me and has put our recent family situation in perspective. We have so much to be thankful for. We're healthy our kids are healthy...the rest will work itself out.

Cameron's first beach trip

The Beach in Bullets...

• Tim decided (on Wednesday night) that he would be finished up with work and wanted to leave on Thursday instead of Friday
• THURSDAY:
• Spent all day packing like a fiend
• 1:30-left to hit the road and get Abbie from school
• 1:45-McDonald's drive thru
• 2:00-returned home to get my clothes that I left hanging on the doorknob, and Oh would you look at that, there's my bathroom/toiletry bag on the bed. Whew, close one.
• Arrived 5 hours later at Oak Island only to find the bridge next to the beach house closed so we had to drive back to the other end of the island and go the long way.
• FRIDAY:
• Awake to cell phone ringing at 7:30-ish I think. Forgot to tell mom we were leaving early. She can't find us and she wants to make sure we made it through the tornadoes that hit near our house!! Our neighborhood was spared but just a few miles away, one road of homes was devastated. Thank God we were safe.
• Stormy morning at the beach. Afternoon cleared and we headed out.
• SOOOO windy we did not even sit down. Cameron couldn't even stand up.
• SATURDAY:
• Beautiful day. Headed to the beach. Breezy but tolerable, compared to yesterday.
• Headed back to the house for late lunch, showers and naps.
• Drove 1 1/2 hours south to Myrtle Beach.
• Arrived at Myrtle Beach greeted by "Welcome to Bike Week". Harley Davidson motorcycle kind of bike week. The boys loved it. I was just glad that it wasn't the other bike week. The crotch-rocket, street-racer, laws-don't-apply-to-me bike week. Did I mention that SC is a Helmet-optional state?
• Had a great time at Broadway at the Beach . Not sure how this place relates at all to Broadway, however.
• 9:30- head back towards Oak Island.
• 10:15- Tim asks me where the beach house key went.
• 10:15:05-my heart sinks into my stomach and I begin to pray frivolously that Tim just accidentally left the key in the door.
• LONG DRIVE BACK TO THE ISLAND
• No key in the door. Rip the car apart. No key anywhere.
• 11:20- Call Bill. Leave message and ask if there is another key somewhere.
• Look for a hidden key
• 11:30- Try Bill again, find a key!!!
• 12:00- in bed!!!
• SUNDAY
• Wake to the house shaking from severe thunder and lightning storm. Retrieve beach umbrellas, towels and bathing suits from around the yard.
• Pack quickly to get the heck home.
• Get to the bridge to leave the island, forgot Grandma's diamond ring and other jewelry on the bathroom counter.
• Go back and get jewelry
• GET OFF THIS ISLAND!!!!!!!!

I'm Back...

I'm trying to get back in the blogging mood. I want to update on our "vacation". I hope to get to that this week. But for now I'm trying to get my calendar updated for the last 3 weeks of school. So many things to do...testing, parties, graduation, etc.

These are the weekly quotes on my calendar for the next 2 weeks:

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." -Hodding Carter

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
-Buckminster Fuller