Two of our children came out to the lake for a visit. So that made for a really full weekend for us. Our oldest daughter Tracy Elisabeth and our oldest son Jim spent the weekend with us. It was a little windy and cool on Friday night, but we huddled around the campfire and had a great visit anyway.
Elizabeth has been diagnosed with stage 3-4 Ovarian Cancer and is still in the investigation stage with a CT scan planned for Monday and surgery planned for the following week, so she was in charge of what she wanted to do, and this was the first thing on her bucket list. " I want to sit around a campfire out at the lake". She was hoping for a swim this weekend because once she has her surgery she will not be allowed in the lake for weeks and weeks. It was much too cold for that.
But they did get to go for a long walk and wonder the beach and talk and talk. We Bar-B-Qed Steaks on Saturday night and drank and talked and talked well into the night.
We all have some serious stuff to go through in the next little while, and we are going to have to gather around and help each other through it and acquiesce to Tracy's wishes.
Sunday was a little bit cooler, so it was another day of having a few drinks, listening to some tunes and sitting around and talking and talking, but this time it was done indoors.
And look what I got. My son Jim, brought me this very unique birdhouse for my new deck. Isn't it cute? I just love it.
After a nice dinner, it was time for them to pack up and head home. All in all, it was a really nice weekend although the sad news is never far from our minds.
I think we all felt a bonding and supportive attitude that we can lean on. So that was our Sad/Happy weekend.
