Healing Hearts Weekend

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Well, I finally made it to the Healing Hearts Weekend sponsored by Courageous Kids. This is a weekend for Mom’s that have lost a child from cancer. This is not a club I wanted to be in or any of us wanted to be in. However, we are and we come together and support Mom’s that have a recent lost in the past year. I am now considered an ole’ timer, because I have been going to this weekend retreat for the past 7 years. I missed last year because of work obligations, but I was determined this year that I was going to come.

It was suppose to be raining really bad tonight and James did not want me to be driving here in my little Ford Escort. So I went and got him with the Durango and he brought me to the house where the ladies are staying.

We arrived at this one house, thinking it was the right one, but there were no cars around at all. James was like WOW this is cool, I gotta get a picture of this house. Then I noticed that it was the wrong house! Lol That cracked me up, and of course James had to get a picture of me cracking up. Hehe

I brought my laptop in hopes that I would find a wireless connection. NO such luck! SO I am here all weekend without the internet or my internet buddies. Have you ever been in a crowd of people and suddenly feel really alone? Well, after a couple hours of us talking and cropping (scrapbooking). I went and sat down by the dog. Debby, the founder of Courageous Kids always brings her dog, Murray. I then decided after about 20 min. that I just wanted to be by myself instead of doing the small talk thing.

Most of the ladies at the retreat this weekend are women that have lost their child within the past 3 to 4 years. One lost her daughter not even 6 months ago, where it is so very fresh still.

I am sitting here, blogging into a word document, since I have no wireless and watching CSI Miami.

Before I came to the retreat I had to take Justin to get his permanent cast. He will get it checked in three weeks from now to see how it is healing. He got his cast in red. It use to be when you broke something and had to get a cast, you got a white cast and that was it. Not anymore! Now you can get it all sorts of colors. The guy next to Justin, got a Neon orange color for his cast. It was his second cast. The first one was a bright neon green. Anyway James got me a 1 gig card for my camera phone so I could take more pictures. I took a picture of Justin and his x-rays. As soon as I figure out how to upload the pictures to my laptop, then I will send them to my blog.

Well guess that is it for now.

Saturday, March 8th

I woke up at 5:30 this morning but was determined that I was not going to get up that early. I would be the only one up at that time because that is what usually has happened in years past. SO this time around I just stayed in bed until about 6:30 and then took my shower and went upstairs. This house has three levels. Each level has a deck that has chairs and a swing. My room has a sliding glass door that leads to one of the covered porches. However, it is so windy outside that I could hardly stand it. Supposedly there is wireless here, if I go outside on the porch. Maybe later I will be able to handle being outside and see if I can get wireless.

This morning I have talked to several mom’s individually and have gotten to know them better. One Mom is coming on the 1st anniversary of her daughter’s death and had a video that she showed me this morning. She had a portable DVD player. It was a sweet type of memorial about her daughter. It made me want to do something like that of Jessica. We have lots of pictures of her and lots of video that James shot on VHS but we have yet to convert it to DVD.

Anyway, We had a wonderful breakfast at about 10am. One dish was a type of quiche that had fresh asparagus. There also was a breakfast pizza that had egg and sausage and onions in it. It was good. I kept thinking how I would love to make unusual stuff at home but my kids are so picky that they would not eat anything fancy. Kristina doesn’t like sausage.

We spent most of the day painting memory boxes and then painting on glass. I did the memory box and then I went and took a nap for about 2 hours. I then got up and worked on my glass container. At about 7 pm some belly dancers came to teach us how to belly dance. I just could not get into it. So I stepped back and took pictures instead. Then about 8:00 I was talking to James on IM and decided I wanted to come home. So he came and got me!

We went to Longhorn Steak house for dinner and went home and crashed and burned.

This next weekend James and I get to go to the Renaissance Weekend at Myrtle Beach. We are taking Friday off and will do our errands (pay bills) and then head out to Myrtle Beach to have a fun weekend without the kids! WOO HOO!!

We also ordered some new wedding rings for our 18th anniversary! I am so excited. We will be taking pictures and putting it on our blog I am sure.

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