A September Gathering of Friends

As we merrily roll along on this adventure, we have had such an incredible inpouring (if that is a word) of company, food, and lots of laughs. Gord and I have had our hearts filled with gratitude with all the wonderful events that have happened in the past few weeks. All of the pieces of the puzzle are slowly falling into place and as Gord's walking improves, prospects of things we can do - like travel - introduce themselves to us. I will give details in a later blog when I know what is firmed up.

This past week our friends from California, Prince George and Priddis stayed for 3 days and we truly missed our Seattle friends who could not make it at the last moment. We were surrounded by such love. Thank you Carol, Harris, Carol (Red), Tom,Laura and neighbours Mike and Linda for such a great visit. On Wednesday Tom and Harris drove Gord to Ponoka to walk through a day of Gord's therapy and I am hoping Tom will give us all a blog spot on his impressions of the treatment Gord is getting.

Thank you to Ralph for his baked apple dish (thanks Deepak for the apples- you have lots on your tree!).

Thank you Lisa and Sarah for the wonderful bread and chile dish you cooked so lovingly and delivered.

Thank you Ken in Maui for the amazing job you are doing on our unit.

Thank you Leni and Sandy for helping Ken....enjoy your stay in Maui!!

Gord is in good spirits and asking lots of questions now about the future of his right arm and his eyesight. I keep telling him they are both brain functions that will come back if we really give it a good try. I believe he is willing to continue this fight. The roller coaster stills exists though so I am always watching and listening carefully.

My little issue has turned into a spinal misalignment and today I am heading into town for another looksee at what is going on. I am not very comfortable in my chest area still so finishing the deck painting and loading the lumber on the truck will have to wait a while. I really do not like being crippled. Hello.....Sheila....guess how Gord feels!!!! This is a real eye opener for me. I have been going for 9 months marvelling at how I can do all these things and never get sick or hurt. Well I guess it has all caught up with me. 9 months...hmmmm that reminds me that we have an announcement.

We are expecting grandchild #5 in March 2010. Our daughter Andrea , husband Mike and son Declan are the first of the 5 children to start the family expansion. Congratulations Parte family!

This is kind of a mixed up blog but I have not written for so long and it is kind of a diary for me to look back on in the future.

I did not get many pictures of the visit but here is what I managed to find on my camera.

Lots of love to all

Sheila