Christmas and mixed emotions

I LOVE Christmas!! However for our household it comes with many mixed emotions, love and happyness of being together and the missing of Doug's mom and the reminder of Christmas of 2006, when Audrey was fighting for her life in the PICU of Children's hospital.


For those of you who have come into our life since then. Audrey was admitted into Children's on Dec 19th (her 2 month birthday) with a 103 fever and a white cell count of over 20,000. With in 48 hours she was went into respitority distress and was rushed into PICU where she was sedated and put on life support for 10 days. She was dianosed with RSV, which was very uncommon for a healthy full term baby to become as sick as she did, most extreme RSV cases like her's were results of preterm births, the drs called her the sickest RSV healthy baby they had seen. She fought with all she had and we got to bring her home on News Years Day 07.

I am forever greatful to have her home however more so around the holidays. Even if her fighting demenior drives me crazy sometimes LOL!!

This year has been really hard on Doug and I without Priscilla around, I know she is watching over us but I would much rather have her here with us. I hoping spending Christmas at the cabin this year with help lift and brighten our spirits this year.

Rain Rain,

Stay as long as you want we need it LOL. The girls had a blast playing in the rain over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

My First Thanksgiving

ok so it was not my first Thanksgiving, but it was my first Thanksgiving cooking the entire meal. Doug and I were in the Kitchen on and off through out the day, it was a long process but it turned out great!!! We had Turkey, Stuffing, Yams, Green bean casserole, and Rolls.

A Christmas for Noah

This is Noah, he is 5 and he has been fighting Nueroblastomia (the same cancer Madeleine's has). Unfortunately he is loosing his 2.5 year battle and the Doctors have told his parents that they only have a couple of weeks left with him. They are celebrating Christmas early next week and all he has asked for is Christmas cards. We are trying to get him as many Christmas cards as possible from all over the country. Please send him a card if you can here is his information:

Noah Biorkman

1141 Fountain View Circle

South Lyon MI 48178.

Kassidy is growing up

Kassidy is offically enrolled in "Big Kid School". I turned in her paperwork today for EAK (Early Admissions Kindergarten). EAK was formed for those students who just miss the cut off date for that years Kindergarten, Dec 15-March 15, who are ready to start a modified K schedule (only 3.5 hours) instead of staying in a Preschool setting. She will be starting in Jan.

I didn't think it would effect me to much since she is in preschool, however it is weird to think of her in a school setting.

Trick-or-treat

We were super busy this year for Halloween. Madi had her 2nd Birthday (her first one since chemo) The kids wore their costumes, the girls had a wonderful time playing with their friends and it was great to see Madi's extended family on happy terms not in a hospital.




Then it was home to rest and get ready for trick or treating:

Audrey's Birthday

Wow it has been a crazy October around here, sorry for the lack of posting :(

Audrey turned 3 on the 19th, I CONNOT believe my baby is 3!!!

She had many friends over for her party and Tinkerbell made an appearance too!! (a friend from HS does parties and singing telegrams). She was a huge hit, she did fairy dust, face painting, tinkerbell says and sang happy birthday.