Memorial Day 2012

There's nothing like a long weekend to help rejuvenate the body. And by that I mean the extra day of sleep. Nothing does me more good than getting to sleep late. Usually it's just on Saturdays that I get those extra hours or half hours, but I also got it today! Joe and I spent the morning watching last nights shows that we recorded. As with every other day this weekend, we went to bed early. With Joe's sleeping problems following his chemo, we have tried to turn in early in an effort for him to squeeze out a little extra sleep time.

Today's Memorial Day celebration will be a "cook-in" of hamburgers, baked beans, and fries (vegi-burgers & sweet potato fries). For dessert, "pig-pickin" cake or as some call it, "punch bowl" cake. A true All American feast!  The weekend has been pretty quiet, relaxing but enjoyable. Saturday was a day of mostly resting; Sunday was church followed by lunch at The Cheesecake Factory - always a treat; and today other than the cook-in we plan to go buy some flowers to get in the planters in the front and backyards. Hopefully tonight it will not be oppresively hot & humid outside and we can sit outback and maybe even light the fire pit. Too bad medications prevent a glass of wine or it would be nearly perfect. But we are together, so regardless, we will have a good time.

This coming week should have a little slower pace for Joe. He will have his usual long chorus rehearsal tomorrow night, choir practics on Wednesday night, a free Thursday and Friday night. Sprinkled in during the day time will be a few piano students and of course, Thursday morning he has his chemo infusion at the Duke Cancer Center. All in all, a quieter than usual week for him. My week will be more of the same, with work from 8-5 although at least it will be only a 4 day week!!!

One other thing we did this weekend was make our summer vacation plans. We've put this off due to the impending move of my office to a new location but that seems to be dragging on forever so finally I just had to take the bull by the horns and schedule a vacation week. If it happens to fall during the move, I guess they will have the pleasure of moving without me. Can't say I'd be very upset if that were to happen. The thought of moving to a new location is not nearly as enticing as laying on the beach for a week. We've scheduled our week in July at our favorite beach house, "Pirate's Pride" at Holden Beach. We've been to it many times before and love it's location and amenities.  Let's just hope this year there isn't a repeat of last years "Joe fever day" where I packed up everything at 5am to leave and then spent the day with him in bed and me pacing. The rest of the time there we lived out of the suitcases and bags since I wouldn't allow him to unpack, just in case. Only 6 weeks until vacation! Whoo Hoo!!

We hope everyone has had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and will have an enjoyable week ahead.  Thank you for your prayers and support!
We love all of you!