Just a couple things...

Lila, the one year old I am taking care of for a while, is preoccupied so I thought I'd take a minute to ask for your prayers.

1. My great-aunt (Ain't Arlene as we call her) has been diagnosed w/ lung and brain cancer. She's a smoker and the lung cancer, while difficult to find, tends to spread quickly. It completely covers one lung, half of the other, and enough of her brain to be incredibly serious and inoperable. The specialists at Erlanger in Chattanooga have said she may have as little as 2 months and as long as 5 years.

2. My step-mom's sister, Debbie, had a stroke a couple weeks ago. She has lost 1/4 of her brain functioning. It's the reasoning, sequencing, mature part which may or may not be compensated for w/ proper therapy. Dede is taking care of her (plus their mother and aunt, who has epilepsy) and really needs to take it easy. Dede was recently diagnosed w/ fibromyalgia (sp?) and the more stress she has, the worse she feels.

Just a few things we could really use your prayers on. Other than that all is well. Hadlee is growing at the speed of light and taking up more than her fair share of tummy space! :) We absolutely LOVE being at home and are taking full advantage of seeing family on a near daily basis. Lila isn't so preoccupied anymore and I think it's nearly her morning nap time... ahh, nap time...