home made chicken noodle soup cravings

What a delight today was that my boy's vomiting eased in the afternoon and he was 'craving' different foods, searching for the right one to please his palette. Suddenly he remembered!! "Mom, you just have to make your home made chicken noodle soup! That would really make my stomach happy." Music to a mama's ears. He requested the right veggies and to pick out the noodles and even peeled the one potato, adding the carrots and goodies himself. Oh, how I have missed the joy of my little cooking helper boy. All the kids gobbled it up with gusto.

Look how perky he looks tonight after eating three helpings! What a contrast to how he looked earlier this week. Mmmm...Mmmm...good.

pumpkin patch

Recently we spent the day together at Bloomsbury Farm in Iowa. There is a charity organization at the children's hosptal called Dance Marathon that many of the medical students belong to and every year they have a 24 hour dance marathon, hence the name, where they dance for 24 hours and raise money to help out the cancer kids there. Well, they use the money for many good works including financial donations, medicine assistance and material needs in the hospital like tv's and DVD players etc. One of the fun things they do is volunteer to play with the kids in the activity rooms and they invited and paid for any families that were interested go to this farm and provided lunch there as well. It was really fun to just get away and spend the day together as a family! Bryce was between phases of chemo and was looking and feeling pretty good. We were very thankful for this special day/memories.

They even had a 40 acre maze to navigate that required some maps and finding hints. It was really fun. Dylan went through it all by himself ahead of us and it took him awhile. Dad is the team leader here, directing his squad for the corn maze mission!

he's my son

I am working on a video of B's fight with cancer, I am very excited. In the meantime since I am very slow in the video fun dept., am homeschooling and going through all this with B, (even with my highschoolers help time can be hard to find) I am going to post this beautiful song written by MARK SCHULTZ and a tear jerker u-tube video about a boy and his fight with cancer. Get the tissues out.




I'm down on my knees again tonight
I'm hoping this prayer will turn out right
See there is a boy that needs Your help
I've done all that I can do myself
His mother is tired
I'm sure You can understand
Each night as he sleeps She goes in to hold his hand
And she tries not to cry
As the tears fill her eyes

CHORUS: Can You hear me? Am I getting through tonight? Can You see him? Can You make him feel all right? If You can hear me Let me take his place somehow See, he's not just anyone He's my son

Sometimes late at night I watch him sleep
I dream of the boy he'd like to be
I try to be strong and see him through
But God who he needs right now is You
Let him grow old
Live life without this fear
What would I be Living without him here
He's so tired and he's scared Let him know that You're there

CHORUS
Can You hear me? Can You see him? Please don't leave him He's my son

mini field trip to farm

Recently we went on a small scale field trip to a farm in Iowa. It was nice to get out of the house, into the country and get all that fresh air.

We saw chickens.

Abby helped squish real apples for apple cider we all enjoyed drinking it at the end. What a beautiful day!

apple time

Here is my sweet girl helping me make apple crisp...no pie crusts for me right now!! It was soooo yummy! We did read the book HOW TO BAKE AN APPLE PIE AND SEE THE WORLD!! So cute. I am glad my friend reminded me to read that to the kids again. Sorry friend, can't get that 'stuff' out of the background due to 12 inches of counter space...:) (I will get around to that island someday)HEE. Enjoy!

Here is my little helper!


Ready to bake

All done...can't you just smell it?

Ice cream just makes it better

entomology

Here is Bryce with his garden friend the Praying Mantis. I still have to figure out how to get my camera to take better pics close up...I'll get there!!

light the night

LIGHT THE NIGHT was a wonderful success!!





Thanks to all of you who came, donated or bought shirts!