Monday, May 18, 2009

The Personal Stuff......

I have just been in a whirlwind of activity these past few weeks, and having so much fun! First thing that happened......on Mother's Day morning, I get a call at 9:15 am and see by the caller ID that its from Lindsay, who lives in Las Vegas. My first reaction to seeing the number was "ut oh" because of our time difference. I knew it was just 6:15 AM in Vegas, and that means for her to call me that early, well, something's just not right, or she hasn't been to bed yet!! So I answer the phone and she explains that she sent me flowers for Mother's Day and the flower guy was standing outside by the garage door, as he needed a signature to leave the flowers. So I was like "awwwwwww", let me get off and open the garage door, get the flowers and I'll call you later. So I hop out of bed (was doing my drink morning coffee, reading the paper routine) and I opened the garage door and there is Linz standing in the driveway! I was stunned! I never dreamed that she was here.....everyone kept the secret.....so I just grabbed her, held on, and started to cry as I was so happy. Happy Happy tears. I haven't seen her since Christmas, so it had been 4 months since I had seen my baby girl, and that's just too long in my Mommy Book. Linz and I talk almost everyday, but that's just not the same thing as seeing her. Kevin had also come up to stay here for the weekend to celebrate the Mother's Day weekend with me as well as to spend as much time as he could with the girls too, so he was standing there as well. What a surprise and THE BEST Mother's Day present I could ever dream of getting! So we hung out here for awhile and then went to pick up my other daughter Ashley and then went to the Flea and Farmer's Market in Daytona ( gosh, I hadn't been there in like forever!) and walked around and shopped for a while, went to lunch, and then to this specialty chocolate candy store for some goodies, and then came home. The next Day was Sunday, Mother's Day and I had made plans with my mom as she said she wanted to go to breakfast for her "present" so we got up and got to the restaurant around 10:00 am and had a great breakfast at a restaurant owned by a friend of mine. It was me, my mom, Linz, Van and Kevin at breakfast. Kevin left for West Palm Beach after breakfast as it's a 3 hour drive and he needed to get home to do something with his mom on Mother's Day. We all had a great time. Linz then took my car and headed over to Daytona to visit with her sister who lives in Daytona right now, so they visited for awhile and then when Linz came home we went over to her boyfriend's parents house to say "hi" while she was in town and to see his new little nephew who was born while they were in Vegas, so her and Anthony hadn't seen him yet. We stayed for an hour or so, took some photos of the baby for her to take back and then came home to spend the rest of our time together as she was leaving to go back to Vegas early Monday afternoon. On Monday before she left for Vegas, we went to spend some time at my Mom's house as I wanted to give Mom her Mother's Day gift (I got her one of those digital photo frames and had loaded over 400 pictures on it!) and we wanted to play with her new puppy Abby too. So me, Linz and her oldest and dearest friend Melissa went to Mom's for a few hours and then Liss took Linz to the airport. A wonderful present for my Mother's Day, just too short of time :( THEN......
As I wrote on my entry dated May 15th, that day was the 1st Anniversary of my New Birthday.....making it ONE YEAR since having had my Bone Marrow Transplant. About 5:00 pm, I heard the garage door go up and thought it was my brother (who's staying here for 10 days before going back to Colorado).....and the next thing I see is MY SISTER (and Mom) standing in my kitchen holding a dozen roses! AGAIN.....another surprise! She said there was no way she was going to let such an important day go by without being here with me. Who has a better sister than me? NO ONE! She said she came up to spend the weekend together and take me out to my favorite, cook- at- the- table Japanese Restaurant for a celebration dinner, so go get dressed! What fun! We had a great time all weekend, just being together, and looking back over this past year, and all that we have been through. We laughed, we cried, and just thinking where I was a year ago compared to today, is just a blip on the radar screen of life, and yet so significant and many memories were made during the time of my transplant. We were all together for 7 weeks going through this bone marrow transplant process, and the operative word is "all together". I've said it many times and will probably say it a million more.....I COULD NOT have done this without their support. There is just no way. They made it tolerable, fun, less painful, and more laughter. We have a good time just being together anyway, so when you throw in a bone marrow transplant, it just makes it that much more to go through and tell stories about and reminisce. We laughed all over again, about my original Birthday Party, the day of the transplant, when I wore a Birthday Princess Foam crown, Groucho Marx Glasses so I would have eyebrows when I lost my hair (yeah...the hair went but never the eyebrows or eyelashes, thank goodness!).....all the funny cards they bought.....and other goofy presents we just had a ball with. I truly have the best supportive family and sister in the whole world, and give thanks everyday, that she's mine. :) So again, another great weekend of surprise for me from people who love me and want to be with me to celebrate. I am soooooooo lucky. We all spent the weekend together, ( Ashley was with us on Saturday too) grabbed some Mexican food on Saturday night and then Kate had to get going on Sunday and head back home. That's 2 weekends in a row I have had surprises! I'll be bored to tears this coming weekend, when no one surprises me! LOL Anybody up for a road trip to come see me? LOL I've uploaded some photos taken over Mother's Day and my sissie's visit so be sure to take a look. Till later......

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG my eyes are as dry as cotton reading that...evidently I didn't blink the whole time reading! I'm sooo happy that you had such a wonderful weekend! Good mamas deserve good laughs and good foods with all their peeps on Mother's Day weekend! Appy-hay Irthday-Bay! How great it is to be a year old! You're only 9 mo older than your grand-niece (?!), how often does that happen? =)
xoxo Love ya,
pepper

Susan said...

Wow you did have a whirlwind of excitement happening...thanks for sharing...