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Who's Helping You?

A couple of weeks ago, while at David's parents, I offered to watch David's nieces while Lisa was in town helping her parents with some business matters. Lisa responded that she didn't want me to "feel stuck" while she did more important things. I appreciated her consideration and I've thought a lot about our conversation. There are many people in each of our lives who enable us to do what we do. When I worked as a nurse, I was sincerely thankful for each of the nursing assistants that worked on my shift because they made my job so much easier. Later as an administrator of a cancer center, I simply couldn't have run it without a physician, office manager, or techs. And the physicist, who rarely made his presence known, was vital to the accurate treatment of radiation. And how about the janitor? In fact, looking back, while I was the "face," so to speak, I was really the most dispensable. Fast forward over a decade. My life has changed drastica...

Home Again, Home Again

Well, we are home at last with fond memories tucked away for years to come. We have been crazy-busy doing 5 weeks of well, everything, that has been "waiting" on us! And to top it off, teachers return on Monday, so David is REALLY busy. We logged about 5000 miles this summer and shared a lot of those miles with David's parents...and we're all alive to tell the story! I have lots of pictures to share. Coming soon (relatively speaking!).