We're Baaaackkk...

Supposedly our computer is now healthy. I'm still waiting to see how long it lasts...my hopes aren't that high. I figured I should take the time to update all of the loyal readers who are still checking and reading. Thanks Mom. Not too much is going on here. We had a lovely weekend just kind of sticking around the house and enjoying our little family. We went to some Parade of Homes...by the way, it is so fun! I used to think that Brad and I were weird because we enjoyed looking at other people's homes. Come to find out, lots of people do so they created a Parade of Homes so all of these people could satisfy their curiosity without being weird. It was just a nice laid-back kind of weekend.

Big news on Phoebe: Last night she rolled from front to back! Now comes the time when she'll just start rolling around on the floor. She was practicing her skills last night as I was folding laundry. Her goal was to get to my stack of laundry so she could grab it and pull over a stack of freshly folded laundry onto her head. It made her laugh, but it was a little frustrating for me since I had to refold all the clothes. Of course, her determination and self-satisfied giggles made it all better!

Eli is just Eli.

I'm feeling pretty good. Most days don't have too many side-effects from the Gleevec. The strangest one is that it makes my eyes swell every morning. So, every morning it looks like I've had a bad night, but it goes away after 30 or 45 minutes. Nothing a good cup of coffee won't fix. Some days my liver of spleen seems to ache, but then the next day it will be gone. I'm hanging in there. After looking on some Gleevec/cancer websites, I realize that my side effects are pretty mild. Some people report having to stay in bed all day because of pain or nausea or whatever. I am so thankful that most days I can just live my life and enjoy my family.

I do have a few requests. When our computer crashed the first time, I lost all of my email addresses. The only person I can email right now is ebay. If all of the people who love will email me (it doesn't even have to be very long), I can get your email addresses back and be able to write you when I think about you. My email is jordanjmccall@nts-online.net. Also, since we lost most of our pictures, would you mind going through yours and just saving all the ones of my Brad, me, Eli, Phoebe to a CD and just send them to us. I know we can get a lot of our pictures back that way because we usually make our memories with other people! :) Don't feel like you have to do it today or even this week. Just next time you have a little time. I would be so grateful.

Hope everyone has a great day!