Weekends Are For Kids

Joshua and I were watching the football game together when we saw a recruiting commercial for the US military. The video showed a helicopter piloting its way into enemy territory, flying down low, and soldiers jumping out with night vision goggles on. They found their fellow soldiers who had apparently been trapped and got them [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

We went to the emergency room last night, maybe for the last time. Joshua got a fever, so off we went. Everyone there was growing snouts and expressed an overwhelming desire for truffles. So we instructed Joshua to not touch anything.
Anything.
So he got checked out; counts were good; we were released about 8:30 to come [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

Tomorrow, October 18th, is the 3 year anniversary of Joshua’s diagnosis with acute lymphocytic leukemia. That also means that as of today, he has been undergoing chemotherapy for 2 years, 363 days.
Hard to believe it’s been 3 years. We just wanted to reflect a little with a few pictures, starting just before he was diagnosed, [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

Andi has won my heart. I mean, come on – look at her.

One problem in life right now, though – Andi does not like to be dropped off places. She cries when she goes to Sunday School. She cries when she goes to school. She cries even when she has to go upstairs to the [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

Another post from the baseball world from Joshua. At our last practice, we went for almost 2 hours.
Wow. The last thing of the night was a base running contest. So the coach put all the boys in a line, spreading out the faster and slower ones. Joshua was positioned last. The context was this: he [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

I’ll be honest – Thursday was a tough day. Not only did Joshua have his dose of chemo on Wednesday, but Thursday was the first day of baseball practice. And we found ourselves moving into a new world of sports.
Our neighborhood league evidently has a long and illustrious history of many championships of something or [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

(Today’s post done by guest blogger, Joshua Kelley, who has elected to express his thoughts in story form)
“Once upon a time, there was a man that liked to go in caves. And then when he went into that cave, he always found precious jewels. Suddenly there was a dinosaur!
The man said, “What are you doing [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

Band-aids. I can’t remember if it was like this when I was a kid, but we go through band-aids by the stinkin’ gross at our house.
Apparently, both our children are under the delusion that a band-aid makes it feel better.
I swear last week Joshua looked like he was being held together with the stupid things.
As [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

Dear Joshua:
As of Thursday, you are a big, bad, 5-year-old boy, and though you have said in the last couple of days that you don’t feel like you’re 5, you can’t possibly have that feeling as much as I do. The truth is that your 5 years have been some of the greatest – but [...]

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Weekends Are For Kids

There are a few things that Joshua hates. One is sitting in his room with the door shut.
Another is squash, or any other gourd-like vegetable.
We had a horrible time this week convincing Joshua that the bread he was scarfing down this sweet bread that it made out of zuccini. It was an absolute impossibility to [...]

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