Life In The Fast Lane

Not much going on here these days. The kids are in school and winding down the year with science fair projects and end of the year musical and juggling performances. Tyler has become quite the unicyclist and Rachel is doing very well her first year in the juggling class. Liam finally got his hair cut off and is donating it to Locks of Love. He looks so different with his short haircut. It took a few days to get used to seeing him with short hair. I'll post some pictures of him so everyone can see.

My old friend Darin had to re-launch his blog due to the size it has become. Apparently is was larger than Blogger could handle. He has some very cool new posts on the new site. You can check that out at Interactive Sermon.

An update on my friend Kellie. She is doing better since her car accident. She is home and the long road to recovery is under way. I got this email from her a couple of days ago.

Mark,

I am doing much better! I spent the first week after the crash in the hospital (Monday to Saturday). I made it home and developed an infection. Never had that before, thought I was going to die. I had severe fevers 103 and up for one week. Brian's stress level was at it's peak. I made two trips back to the ER. Finally, on the Saturday following my return home, the fever broke. It took me a couple of days to build my strength back up but it is getting better everyday. I saw the Dr on Thursday of this past week. He x ray ed everything again and said all is well. He expects that in 3 weeks I should be able to begin bearing weight on my leg. That will be 5 weeks post surgery. He originally told me that it would be 6-8 weeks. So things are healing well. I will be walking with a walker then with a cane. My physical therapist is about to kill me but says I will be ready to walk in three weeks. I am looking forward to things getting back to normal.

Thanks for checking on me!
Kellie


It sucks how something so destructive can happen so fast--a matter of seconds--yet take 5 times as much time or longer to recover from. There's a life lesson for you...... the choices we make in life have a very long and lingering effect on our lives. Kellie didn't choose for this to happen I know but just think about choices you've made in your own life that have not turned out the way you had hoped they would. Do they still affect you today? Are you reaping the benefit or are you paying the piper?


Sylvia is doing pretty good. She gets tired very easily. The B and prenatal vitamins are helping and she is not as nauseous as she was. Today she is officially 12 weeks along. The kids are still very excited and Sylvia and I are starting to catch up to them. It is still a bit of a shock though.

I guess that's about it for now. I will very shortly post some pictures of Liam's new haircut.