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I am going to head to the bookstore and buy my kids each a special book! We love to read as well.

Sorry to hear about your mouth, blech. I am cheering you on and chanting "kick some ass, kick some ass." Stay warm and cuddle that girl =)

My kids and I read every night too. My 5yr son loves the book, Are You Sleepy Petey? If you haven't read it check it out. I'm sure Zoe will love it!! Hang in there girl!!!!

You are beautiful. And soon you'll be mascara-ing and checking for wayward brow hairs.

God be with you. That's a dumb thing to say. God IS with you :)

Book recommendation: When the Wind Bears Go Dancing, by Phoebe Stone. It explains storms to children and to adults like me who prefer to think that storms are wild, woolly wind bears dancing in trees.

Debuma,
I could say a million things to you at the moment
but I won't. Please take a stuffed animal with you
to the Ritz aka the hospital, they work wonders.
My kids when they get nervous about something.
I always tell them-hug me-and we play this game.
They hug me and after the hug-we make believe
the hug is going in a special container in
their heart. This game works for big people too.

All of our hearts have special containers filled
with hugs. You pull that out when you can't have
the physcial hug. Trust me it does work.

Every single person in my family, all my sister's,
all the hubbies, all the kids, Nikki the whole
clam damn (figure that out). We make up a whole
village almost-we are here, we are not going
anywhere, and neither are you.

Today the one's that live "here" including
Nikki will be going to the temple. Kids and
hubbies included. We will pray for you, your
family, your doctors.

After we leave the temple, we will visit Nikki's
church and say a prayer. Then we will celebrate
and eat. We celebrate when we know God hears
our prayers.

Sarah is with you if you have on your IPOD
Simply the Best by Tina Turner-she will channel
those M@M's your way-and you know she has your
back covered.

As Sarah said
L'Chaim (to life)

Shoshie

OY VEY
As usual I have one more thing. Eyebrows
and eye lashes, they are way overrated :)

Zoe-hug her from all of us.

Take a peek at your email later today.
Nikki sent something your from us

Dreck-I have all these kids in my office saying
cmon we are going and Mom (me) did not even
look at what she typed-hence the grammatical
fiasco.

Going to read a few chapters now. Since it was an "assignment".

I have one for you as well, get better! K?

Take care of yourself and Zoe!

Hi Deb, you will be fine. Just you wait and see. Faith can move mountains. Love, Dr. Ethel

Reading comes naturally for me. I have more books than our town library.

I know that I don't know you well, but I have to say that I admire you for being a single mom AND kicking the crap out of this cancer. You're my hero and my whole family is praying for you.

Love,
Jess

I met my very best friend during her chemo -
so I never knew her WITH brows and lashes...
when she got well, I felt like I didn't know her!

I think of you often.
Stay on target.

I read to my kids all the time. My little one
(chubs) the one Nikki is holding on our site-
she love Goodnight Moon

Shoshie put out the call and we went to the
Temple. I don't live in the same city with
THEM. (boo-hoo) However my family went,
we said our prayers.

You are beautiful inside and out. Your daughter
was right "you will get better".

Rachel

My all time favorite books, besides all the Dr. Seuss, are the Junie B. Jones series that I started reading to Lauren when she was Zoe's age. You will just love them! You've got to give them a try. If you need some, let me know, I've got several, several! But, both you and Zoe will crack up at Junie B.

Sorry to hear about your mouth. The weather is so sucky right now, staying in and being warm, reading, is really a grand idea. My daughter thinks it's a good day to go ride her skateboard! She's got visions of herself doing the downhill snowboard races, I think. She said she loved that Olympic sport (she's only been on skis once).

We love you, kick that c's a! You're doing such a terrific job.....heck, if it wasn't for those missin' face hairs, we'd all be thinkin' you were makin' this all up!

Had an embarrassing moment today: my baby sister told me to go get my grays covered! She said I should do the white-blonde thing like Paula Deen. You've seen me, what do you think?

Denise :)

Deb,
I think Maya Angelou wrote this for you.

PHENOMENAL WOMAN

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care.
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Go get me girlfriend

Love
Nikki

Well that last line should have read

GO GET THEM GIRLFRIEND.

NOW I HAVE A REALLY RED RED RED FACE

SARAH WOULD BE FALLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING
I AM NOT

My face is still red. But I thought I should
suck it up and give you Sarah's favorite poem
in the world. She was a poetry freak. Without
further ado....

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

It could take days for the blush to leave
my face.

And to think your family reads your blog.
God help me!

Buy yourself some Jodi Picoult novels - truly fabulous writer. Lots of twists and turns to keep you tuned in to what you are reading, and tuned out of anything that is going on around you :-)

and buy some fake eyelashes. as a retired college cheerleader, I fully endorse them. and know they would look fabulous on you!

Zoe just sounds so precious. It's so great for you to have her around. My son is too old for reading to now, but we will sometimes spend time together, each of us reading our own book. He loves to share the funny parts of what he reads; for instance some of the insults in the Star Wars novel he's reading now. Part of me would love to go back to more cuddly days, but I also appreciate how things are now. Thanks for the easy assignment today. Look after yourself. Remember, Zoe needs you.

I was going to share The Road Not Taken with you, but someone else already did. I'll come back with something to read to you later. *grin*

Deb, I love your picture. :)

I'm going to go read to my kids now.

The Blondie song was too funny. Kids are the greatest!!!