Helping Out

On Sunday evening, Maddie, Eli and I packed up and went to see Pap and Grandma (my parents). Mom's 6th treatment was Monday morning and I took her. Dad is finishing up his finals for IWU and then he will be done for the summer. He is also on a scheduled sabbatical as of Saturday. (the Sabbatical was scheduled before mom found out she had cancer - isn't it Amazing how God works).

So, I was looking forward to going to treatment with mom. I hadn't been and I was anxious to see how it all worked. I had heard about Ryan's (Ron's brother), but never actually went with him either.

Part of me wanted to take a picture of mom sitting in the chair receiving the medication (just to document this journey), but I wasn't quite sure if that was appropriate. It was interesting to me though and I found myself wondering about all the other people receiving treatment. Again I was thankful that we are going down this road with Jesus by our side.

Monday morning before we left I cleared Eli to go see Grandma in her room. I knew she would be finishing up getting ready (make-up and such), but I didn't even think about the fact that her wig wouldn't be on yet. He was slightly taken back, but simply exclaimed, "you look like a boy". Once she covered her head he felt better about it. They even looked at the wigs! So here is what Eli would look like as a girl. We were always told when our boys were little that they were too cute to be boys - well, I'm not sure about that, but I do think he looks a little like his Adkins cousins! Doesn't mom look great!?!

While I took mom to treatment, Eli and Maddie got to stay with some friends of ours. Ms. Connie and Anna. Anna is about 5 months older than Maddie and Eli absolutely adores her. He was so excited to go and play at Anna's house.

We are thankful that Connie was willing and available to keep the kids. They all seemed to have a great time. Thanks again, Connie and Anna.

We also stayed Monday night and did a little cleaning on Tuesday before coming home. We had a good time with Grandma and we are so thankful for how well she is doing.

Thank you Jesus that Mom is doing so well. Thank you that we know you as our Personal Savior and we don't have to go down this road of cancer and treatment alone. Thank you!