TGIF!

Can I get an AMEN???? What a week!! This week has been horrible, with the death toll & homeless rate continuing to rise from China's devastating earthquake... then with yesterday's heartbreaking news about Maria Sue. I can only tell you that this Memorial Day weekend never looked sweeter. I look forward to spending as much quality time with Danny & my sweet Lillibug as I can... hugging on them til' they refuse anymore of my sugar!!

Danny, Lilli & I will be traveling to Virginia Beach this evening, to my Grandmother's estate for a little R&R time. This will be the first time Miss Lilli has had to opportunity of going to our family's bay home... "Birdneck". When my Grandmother passed away about 15 years ago and my Mother and Father decided to keep the home as a get-a-way. It's such a special place to our family, with so many memories trapped inside. We hope that Lilli will grow to love it and have special memories there too! We always look forward to spending time there. My parents will be there, as well as my brother, his wife and kids. My sister Amy lives in VB, so I look forward to spending as much time with her as I can, although she has to work this weekend. She passed her Massage Therapy Exam & she is an official "MT" now. The exam is VERY difficult and she has worked so hard to achieve this goal!! We are so proud of her!!

Lilli is doing MUCH better now... thanks to prayers, awesome antibiotics and ibuprofen. She's actually back to her old cutie-patootie self... hamming it up for everyone she meets.

On the other hand, I am a whole different story... I will be having surgery next Friday to have my gallbladder removed. The surgeon is hoping to be able to remove it laproscopically, but fears that he won't be able, due to all the scar tissue I have in my abdomen from my partial colectomy 4 years ago. His words: "your scar tissue is a 'bugga'!"...whatever that means? The recooperation time will be much shorter if they are able to use the lasers (1 week out of work, 2 weeks total time to recover) versus if I have to have an incision, it will be about 6-8 weeks before I can come back to work... and I will have to be hospitalized. Either way, I won't be able to pick up Lilli for what will feel like an eternity!!! Why am I not surprised that this is happening to me, yet again??? My crazy body... my crazy digestive tract... my crazy life!!!! I am so thankful that I didn't have this attack while we were in China. I can not begin to imagine going thru this there. It hasn't been fun!!!

Please continue keep the Chapman Family in your prayers, they need healing that only God can deliver right now... http://chapmanchannel.typepad.com/inmemoryofmaria/

Please keep the Sichuan Province in China in your prayers - so much suffering and despair in that area of China right now... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24789413

Additionally, please keep my precious, little family in your prayers over the next few weeks... as I mentally prepare myself for surgery... and during the recovery process, for Lilli to be understanding when Mommy can't pick her up or get down on the floor and play with her... Her Daddy is going to do everything possible to make her happy, but she's very much a Mommy's girl right now. It'll be difficult on everyone!!

His,
Jen