Happy Holidays
As many of you know - Tom has been suffering. He started with some radiation to hopefully rid himself of three small brain tumors and then he got hydrocephalus which has turned into a bigger nightmare then the tumors in the first place. In the last few months he has had 3 surgeries to fix it, but he is still not fixed. He is in a lot of pain (headaches) and suffers from lack of his ability to be his normal self. Hence it has been a rough Holiday and end of the year. However, we still try to count our blessings and we still have many.
We are very grateful to our family and friends who have been so supportive and kind. That is truly the silver lining. Tom has been able to be home and that has allowed extra time with the kids and he has enjoyed that. Here is one of the many towers he and Gabe have built.
My mom moved closer to us in the last year, just one town over - and we are so lucky. She has been able to spend lots of time with the kids as we have gone back and forth to the docs and spend long hours away. She can also come last minute most of the time when things have run long. It has been good for her and given her joy and has been a lifesaver to us. Here the girls are - we went with the Daisies to the Nutcracker and it was great.
It was sort of a rough Christmas as Tom had his 3rd surgery a couple days before hand. We were lucky to have his Dad and ACey come out to help us make it happen and to bring some happy Holiday spirit into the house. I think the kids enjoyed themselves. We did all get matching family pajamas this year - the kids are in theirs below.
Here is the clan getting our tree. We were able to pull off both sides of our families together in a very nice and fantastic way. Another silver lining. Oh yes, you might see my boot - fracture. Not fun. But not a big deal with what Tom is dealing with. Really pisses me off that he steals all my sympathy.
Hope you are having a wonderful Holiday season. This year, we didn't do cards and we didn't get to host our friends over here like we like - but we did enjoy all of your cards and loved to see the friends that we did. Many of whom have been so kind as to stop by with kind words or food. We are hanging in there and are trying to count our many blessings while we continue to hope that soon Tom will be back to his old self.
posted by YF @ 3:43 PM
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4 Comments:
C, What wonderful pics. I know it has been hard this year but i also know in the near future tom will be on the way to total recovery and of course,you will be without a boot!!! The reason is you two have more prayers and support than you can imagine..even though we are far away!xoxo
finally figured out (okay, Andrew did) why I couldn't post comments.
I'm baaaaaack! ;)
Wow...heavy holidays.
I am going to be in better touch in 2012.
xo
CA Fam- We're reading up on the news and praying hoping for T's quick recovery and drs soon to figure out what the scoop is and fix it. 2012 will improve. I wish we could do something for you (in practicality/daily life) from here. I hear you're a warrior mom/wife, not in the least surprised, and kids going about their biz as kids do best, and should be. Reach out if you think of anything that the VA cousins can do.. sign us up!
Love C,J,L,& A
Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to Tom... we hope the specialists can finally get to the bottom of this as we all know the YFs deserve better than this crap. We love and miss you guys.
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