The Primrose Princesses

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Excuses?!??!

OK...so no real excuse for not posting from November to June except that I was busy busy busy with Mae in K5. Plus, I took 2 AMAZING trips! Not vacations but mission trips! One to Ecuador and one to Haiti - post earthquake! More on those later.

I had full intentions of catching up this summer along with painting my house until June 8, 2010. Tripp, the bestest hubs and dad, a wife and mother could ask for was diagnosed with colon cancer. Stage 4 - all over his liver and possibly a few places in his lungs. Ummm... yeah, he turned 40 in March. And unlike in my 20s when I thought 40 was so old, it is SO NOT. Forty is the new twenty! Too young. So this summer has been spent at the hospital and keeping a "normal" routine for the princesses. I will slowly update the princesses because this is their scrapbook.

For now we need prayers!

Love to the 1 or 3 of you out there who still check in on a whim!

Jules

Monday, August 9, 2010

Slipping through my fingers....

Mary Austin started first grade today. It seems like just yesterday that we were here..

She was so tiny. Just 12 pounds at 7 months. I remember being terrified that I would not know what to do.

Now I feel like this..

She will be 7 in just a few months. So grown up but still needing me and I plan to cherish every moment. I have learned so much since Tripp was diagnosed in June. I used to go through each day on autopilot and not savoring each and every minute. Now that has all changed. We have not asked about a prognosis because stats are just that stats. I have seen them and I refuse to believe the numbers however I now seize every moment with my family to make a memory.