tuesday

People keep telling me that I’m amazing because of everything I’ve gone through. Well, if people would stop dying, I would totally be ok with being less amazing.

I’m kind of serious here. I lost Mark Klinepeter last week, on Sunday a friend called to tell me her mother died and in the same phone call I had to tell her that my sister had died at pretty much the same time of day. (Talk about an awkward conversation subject change. I felt like I was trying to one-up her or something.) Last night I heard a distant relative died as well. All of these funerals are either on the same day or within 24 ours of each other not to mention different cities.

To put it mildy, yesterday really sucked. However, my awesome friend Erin totally came and rescued me from my stomach’s eating strike with a yummy dinner. I had been going non-stop since 4 PM on Sunday, running around taking care of details, dealing with complicated family crapola and taking and making about 987 phone calls. (Nothing like death to help me brush up on my multi-tasking and peacemaker skills.) Anyway, I was really starting to feel super yucky around 6 last night and Erin came in with her meal and some goodies from our friend Kristin, cheery smile and warm hug and it was just the medicine we needed. She really lifted our spirits and then we proceeded to wolf down our meals while zoning out to a really good Scrubs episode. I actually felt really good for like four hours. THANK YOU ERIN & KRISTIN!!!!!

Then night hit and John forced me to go to bed where I lay there letting my mind race. (Though I read a bit of The Onion and that helped get my mind off of things for a little bit.) I got a few hours sleep before I woke up early this morning to do more work on my sister’s memorial video.

It’s really helping me to blog, so I’m going to add some photos of our little guy playing in the snow last week. I hope they bring a smile to us all and help us focus on the LIFE we have in our lives and not focus on the sadness.

No, I didn’t just pummel Miles with a snowball. He put his face straight in the snow and started eating it. We got to give him his first valuable life lesson. Avoid the yellow snow.

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Anybody having any difficulty spotting John’s super sonic smile? I love his big happy smile. I always say his face is “red white and blue.” Red for his lips (I would love to have his natural lip color), blue for his eyes and white for his teeth.

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Look at our little super star Stamp taking off in a sprint. She looks like she is off to save the world. If I ever had the time for an obscure hobby, I would totally do agility training with Stamp. She would LOVE it and totally kick booty doing it. (yes, it’s ok if you think that is a weird fantasy hobby.)

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I gotta get rolling on my day as Miles should be wanting up pretty soon. Thank you to everybody for all of your beautiful messages, thoughts and prayers. John and I are so humbled by the outpouring of love for our family.

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  • holliJanuary 29, 2008 - 6:49 pm

    Hey honey! Just thinking about you constantly. I’m glad you could check out for at least a couple hours last night. Sending you lots of (((((HUGS)))))!

  • LindsayJanuary 29, 2008 - 6:54 pm

    Still thinking of you Bets!!! Like you always tell me, “I am sending you love and peace tonight.” =)

  • mike krisherJanuary 29, 2008 - 10:21 pm

    “People keep telling me that I’m amazing because of everything I’ve gone through. Well, if people would stop dying, I would totally be ok with being less amazing.”

    that is the best paragraph on your blog so far! so awesome! keep blogging!