It's been a long time, I know since I posted. I was really enjoying showing you old pictures and introducing you to my ancestors. I'll have to see if I can find some more.
Judy,
http://judeself.blogspot.com/
at "Onward and Upward--Ever Forward", does the most delightful ancestry books for people. I want to get one done for my son as soon as the extra money comes to me. I want very much to have pictures of it, but I realized the other month or so, that I don't have very many pictures of the grandparents, etc., on his father's side, and I don't know where to get any. People are dying as we get older, and I don't know where their pictures are getting to.
I have more of my family---but I haven't been able to find enough to really get a good book together. I think it would be a much better book on your ancestors if there were at least some pictures. You can go to her website, and I think her blog has something on the sidebar about her works on ancestry books on families. They are so very well researched, and done very well in a bound book. So again, it's here :
Done so nicely with a beautiful cover and a "family tree" on the front. It has heavy paper, she goes and has it all bound together, and spends a lot of her own money for the places you go to search, and that costs her money every month. Please go and have a look for yourself, her prices are very reasonable and she even gives you a payment plan! I wish I remembered how to link to blogs with just putting it under 'here', and the link is there.
Oh, my poor mind! Will someone refresh my memory on this?
Have a good weekend, and when I have something awesome to say--I promise I'll get off my fingers and type!
Oh--by the way, my grandson, who has Crohn's, just turned 13. We were up there for 4 days for his birthday. The doctors have him on meds for the disease, and they have him on a mild dose of an antidepressant, and also a mild sleeping pill.
Yes, it does bother me to think of him having to have those, but they have tried to take him off it, and he did very poorly without it. You know, he's like all of us and can look on Google and read all about how it is. Crohn's is horrible disease and it makes you fear even going out to dinner someplace, because of stomach cramps and diarrhea. He didn't even go out for his birthday but stayed home and they brought him something. There are so many things he is finding he can't eat.
That deprivation is hard on all people---whether you live to eat or eat to live. I can't even explain to you what this is doing to him, and all of us.
Please pray for our boy, David, who is turning into a teenager, but hasn't caught up with others that age. Oh, he's very smart, he's always made straight A's, but the disease is one that keeps you from reaching puberty at the usual age if it comes on early. And we don't even know how long he's had it--perhaps he was born with it.
It's so hard. And we love him with all our hearts.
the wanderer
Praying for David.
ReplyDeleteHugs and love,♡
Love you, sweet friend! ❤
DeleteMany, many prayers for David! I know how very devastating that disease is. So, so bad.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter showed signs of it when she was young, and then eventually they diagnosed her with irritable bowel disease. They removed her large intestine; it was a long time before she could be without the "bag" but finally they built a J Pouch inside. There were a lot of surgeries, and of course everything she eats or drinks goes right through her.
That which she has? At least they could help more than like David with Crohn's. I'm so sorry. :(
xoxo
Oh Sally, I am so sorry your daughter has IBD! Do you know old she was when she got her diagnosis? I know, from reading, you lost a grandchild--I lost a child, too. Sherry was 31 when she died in her sleep on August 20th, 1998. Honey---we a lot of unfortunate things in common! We're just still trying to take it one day at a time! All we can do! 💓
DeleteWeird, I was thinking about you AND David last night as I said my prayers. Wondering if he was on Humara--I think that's what it's called.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the free advertising. One of these days we ARE going to get yours done!!!
I hope we will one done, Judy. Thanks for thinking of us at prayer time!
DeleteI certainly will be praying for David, I can't even begin to imagine just how hard this is for him. I know you must all hurt so much for him. May he find ways of living richly and fully within the limitations that come with this condition. And God bless him!
ReplyDeleteThank you Dewena! Although he's sick nearly everyday, I feel he has a good attitude One day while Facetiming, out of the blue he said, "You know MiMi, any of us could die in a car accident, or something freaky any day!" I said, "Yes Sweetie, the Bible says "Tomorrow is promised to no man." David said, "That's right, it doesn't matter what disease we have, God might want us tomorrow. And I'm ready when he calls me---but
DeleteI really hope HE has fishing in Heaven!"
I told David HE probably did, but maybe there was something even better! David said, "But MiMi! There's nothing better than fishing, so fishing is Heaven to me!"
We both had to agree with that! I thank God for every moment we have with one another. I love him so much.