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Today will be nine seconds longer

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Today will be five seconds longer

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:37:00 +0000

Today will be 0m 2s longer.

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Winter Solstice. Monday, Dec. 21, 2009, 12:47 PM EST

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:47:00 +0000

And so, the light returns.

Again.

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:34:00 +0000

Sunday, December 20, 2009 6:38 PM, EST

We had a super fun weekend.

On Saturday morning we ventured out with Ally to do some groceries and Christmas shopping. (Very nice, since she has not been able to be in public since chemo.) On Saturday night we saw many friends at a housewarming party! Ally got to meet 2 dogs. She loved playing with them, and rearranging all the little things she could reach around the house.
Today we went to Vermont and visited with Daddy's side of the family. It was actually the first time many of the Vermont relatives have met Ally. (Her first Christmas she was very sick with ear infections, and last Christmas she was in quarantine.) Everyone was very excited to see her! She met a cousin about her age, that she had a lot of fun playing with. Ally did very well at both parties. She actually spoke to some people and gave high 5s to some!
Check out our flickr site for pictures.

We are looking forward to a nice week ahead (hopefully it will move along quickly...last week was the first week in a while were Daddy and Mommy had to work ALL FIVE DAYS!!! We were exhausted by the end of the week...but also happy we were able to work 5 days in a row, as that meant Ally was NOT in the hospital!). Daddy and Mommy have to work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but we both have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off. This year we are hosting Christmas at our house! We are very excited to not have to split our day between both sides of the family.

Ally has a blood draw this week (probably Wednesday), and we expect her counts to continue to go up. It looks like she is going to be all ready for NYC.

We have a busy week, with getting ready for Christmas and all; I will try to update Christmas night or the following day with pictures of Ally.

Merry Christmas!

Ally Note:

Ally calls Mommy "Honey", not Mommy.

Lookin' out my back window

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:56:00 +0000

Accouterments of country living. . . .

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:39:00 +0000

News From The City. . . .

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noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:18:00 +0000

And it did snow. And the snow was good.

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:34:00 +0000

This is on a *covered* porch. . . .

Let it snow. . . .

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:42:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:59:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:37:00 +0000

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:29 PM, EST

Ally had blood drawn this morning. Her counts are going up. Her white cells (which were 0.1 and keeping us in the hospital) are up to 2.6 (a normal person's would be around 6). Yippie! Her red cells are moving up as well, which means we should not need anymore transfusions before we go to New York for her surgery.

Ally has been having fun moving the ornaments around on the Christmas Tree. She has yet to notice the 2 gifts underneath it (shhhhh, don't tell her!)

Her energy has picked up, and her eating has even picked up a little bit.

We have a busy weekend ahead, full of parties and friends.

Ally Quote:
Mommy: "Ally do you want to wear your purple jammies tonight?"
Ally: "Heck Ya!"

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:59:00 +0000

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12/16/09. Sagittarius New Moon 7:02 am EST

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:02:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:57:00 +0000

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Beautiful day here! The north sky steel gray and stormy looking, the center full of light, igniting the white bark of the sycamores. Just lovely!! AND. . . .

My spring water is running again, if only for the day. Filling buckets as we speak. . . .

Being awash in water, what can I do but wash? The cups and bowls and pans that were exiled to the sun porch at the beginning of summer in name of redoing the kitchen, are being dragged back in and scrubbed up in today's unexpected blessing of water. Also doing a load of clothes.

Life is good.

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:59:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:58:00 +0000

by chesteronriver

Sharing Christmas with family.

If the stars were nearer we would fly there

or flow in the river

to the ocean

the argument made in Judea

of One Body One Blood

the holy answer found as I enter

your world

you and your sacrament of creation

childbirth body and blood

sharing stars and oceans

and all other brothers and sisters born of clay and ash

the love flowing in and out around

and Creation is the question

and the answer

Salvation the sharing

of gifts of thanks.

By Phil Specht

noreply@blogger.com (puddle) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:02:00 +0000

Ally Quote:
"Ally going to sleep under Christmas Tree tonight."

Friday, December 11, 2009 6:32 PM, EST

Ally had some blood work done yesterday. We got word that her red blood counts are going up on thier own; hopefully this will mean no more transfusions. Her white cells hit the magic number where we can stop giving her the injections in her legs and we were able to take her off the antibiotics! This is very good news in the diaper area.

We have been enjoying our time at home. A teacher friend of Mommy's brought us the most beautiful tree last night! It is the perfect shape, size and smell! Last night we got the lights on, and tonight we finished with the ornaments. Ally had so much fun putting the ornaments on. (Several of them are laid on the branches, rather than hung, but that is the way Ally works.)
We are looking forward to a nice weekend. A couple of Aunties, an Uncle and a set of Grandparents are scheduled to visit; and Mommy and Daddy will get to go out and shop and be together, just the two of them.....ahhhhh, very nice.