Then I Thought of Home

I'm tired today. I've had it with Retroperitoneal Fibrosis. I'm ready for it to pack up and get out of here. When I was first diagnosed I didn't feel bad. I wouldn't have really know anything was wrong. Once I started getting treatment everything changed. I know that's common with several different types of illness's and treatments. There is a group of people who have this disease and they have a page you can follow. They all tell about what they are experiencing. I don't like the page. I looked at it and everyone went on and on. It seemed like a down place to me and besides that I wasn't having any of the things they were complaining about. Several of them talked of pain. They talked about having a hard time coming off the medications. Well now I know. Now I could post on that page. I have gone from no pain to pain. I have gone from a high dose to a low does and it's hard to adjust to. I swell like crazy. M...

You know how they say gossip grows when it hits the ears of a fool and stops when it hits the ears of the wise? Well that is true.  I have been the fool at times and at times I've been wise. I was thinking this morning that fb sharing is a lot like gossip. Something comes up on our newsfeed. We don't know if it's true or if it's false. But we hit share. For all we know someone sat down to their kitchen table and make the whole thing up then hit publish and the whole world starts sharing it. This even happens with missing children stories. Then we share them and eventually people become immune to them. We need to know what we are sharing before we share. The same is true with politics. Know it's true before you share it or again there will be so much stuff out there no one will pay attention to what you are trying to say and you will again be a part of keeping something going that you think you want to stop. In a nutshell we need to be caref...

Well after a year it's finally here, the cookbook is done and ready to order. It was a lot slower process than we anticipated. Lots of starts and stops. Sometimes I wondered if we would ever get here. I hope you will enjoy the book. It's very simple, and it's small. I pretty much sat down with my cookbook the one I have handwritten all of my favorite recipes in, the one I use all the time. My girls say it is the only thing they will fight over when I'm gone but to avoid that problem I plan to make them all a handwritten one and even though he didn't say he wanted one I'm going to make one for Lucas too. Anyway, I copied several of the recipes in this  cookbook right out of my handwritten book. With some of them I'v included a story about the recipe. I've tried to make the book be more about the time spent around the table than about what's on the table. I want you to be as inspired to make memories as you are to make food. The b...