cancer Survivor's Day

UPDATE: Here are the girls at the water fountain, one of Rebekah's favorite places in the hospital. She can find it from ANYWHERE on the hospital grounds! Don't know what that face is on Rebekah????


Wow, 77,000 visitors in just over a year. You all continue to bless us abundantly and even though we don't post every day are are still inspired by your faithfulness.

Yesterday, Sunday, was cancer Survivor's Day. The hospital has an annual afternoon with booths, entertainment, food etc. Last year it was just after diagnosis and we were in for treatment. We remember because Rebekah won youngest survivor and the Polaroid that we took straight out to the trailer sitting in the parking lot stayed there for the last year.

Again, Rebekah was the youngest Survivor there with friend Warren a close second. Rebekah had the choice of gifts from a fully loaded Wagon and she choose a basketball saying "Ball ball ball ball" over and over again. She had to have it opened and started to roll it around all over the hospital. It was kind of a chagrin to some of the older kiddos who came behind her, especially the boys, and had their choice barbies and other baby dolls... oops.

We had gotten to the hospital a little early and went upstairs to visit the nurses. It was nice to see Betsy, Elizabeth, Tory, Lisa and some others that we don't know as well. Rebekah walked all around dragging Sarah by the hand and pointing to different things. She was very much showing Sarah around; it was cute.

One question that got asked a lot by the nurses and even by some of the other Survivor's downstairs was "what is it like coming back here?". There is no way that we can put the true feeling into words but can only say that it is weird. In some ways we feel like we are comming "home". We don't WANT to be there but it is comfortable. We obviously don't want to STAY there but yet when we are there that is what seems right. We have spent so much of our life there in the last year that we just feel like we should be there. Daddy says it is like coming back to work after a long vacation and mommy says it is like going to grandma's house or a second home even though this one is not good. It must have some effect on us because it has even gotten daddy back in a posting mood.