This blog gives me a space to record my adventures, my successes and failures, my thoughts, and all things pertaining to my family and my extended family.
My amazing and wonderful mother-in-law, Coy Harmon, passed away last Monday, May 8th at 6:20 p.m. She was blessed with 90 years of love and legacy that she left behind. Link to the audio recording of her funeral: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1_bgcEkd4E8Wt9xhpE1F_4p_aq2zPi1zG She had been having some health issues in recent months, especially with her heart, and went in on April 20th to get a CT scan. The results showed that her entire liver was engulfed in tumors, and there were signs that tumors were elsewhere, too. She was sent to the cancer specialist the very next morning to discuss what to do. The diagnosis was late-stage liver cancer, and the prognosis was bleak. There would be no surgery to remove the tumors, because they would have to remove the entire liver and get a transplant. Not something viable for a 90 year old woman . . . There would be no chemotherapy, either. Instead, she was told to line up some hospice care and that when the time came, the ...
How am I going to find the words to describe how life-changing it was to be a part of my very first Women's Wellness Retreat?? I will do my best . . . Last fall, my friend here in Vicenza - Emily Thompson - looped me in regarding a retreat she was planning for the spring. There were several things on the list of activities that I was unfamiliar with, compared to the few things I was maybe 1% familiar with. But the whole idea called to me nonetheless. First, I had to convince Scott to let me go, since the price tag was a little out of our comfort zone. Over the course of several days, we finally found a compromise which involved me giving up the opportunity to visit him in Morocco around the same time. It needed to be one or the other, and I chose the retreat. The location was magical, remote, peaceful, and exquisitely picturesque . . . (Photo credit: Emily Werner) (Photo credit: Emily Werner) (Photo credit: Mikaela Russell-Zacharias) Wednesday, April 8th: Situated on a mountain r...
To start off the week strong, I worked hard to clean up and re-organize my food storage room. Scott and I have purchased many #10 cans of various dehydrated foods over the years, starting when we were somewhat newly married. We purchased a year's worth of food storage from a company and have hauled it all around with us for about 25 years. (We've been married for 28) As we have purchased more and more #10 cans in recent years, it has caused us to wonder about the freshness and safety of some of the older cans. So, we decided to try a couple of experiments this week by cracking open some cans and sampling the contents. We had to be very brave. First Experiment: Powdered Milk Abby was a little bored, so I offered to pay her if she would work hard and help me with the cans of powdered milk. She helped haul the cans up one at a time from the storage room to the kitchen, lugging about 9 cans in all. (I had counted 11 earlier, but couldn't find the other 2. Eventually I found the...
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