Friday Night

Well in a rare instance the flu or a similar acting virus knocked both myself and Abbey out of the game. Abbey doesn't like to sit around, so when she is fatigued and wraps herself up and lies on the couch you begin to think she is sick. It helped that I was going through the same thing, I had about a one day jump on Abbey so when they called the next day from school and she had a fever I knew it had to be related. Victoria kept her healthy streak going and never slowed down, while the two of us were just feeling awful. I am grateful to Abbey for being such a good patient. Whether it be medicine for her fever, or her cough which took a lot of work to suppress... she might make a face at how bad it tasted, but never refused it. In fact, I think she felt so bad, she welcomed the attempts to make her more comfortable. Today was hard because she is almost over it, despite a 'wet' cough that concerned me and she most definitely had cabin fever and wanted to get back to her routine. But we are almost over it all and I am grateful. As a rule, these girls just don't get sick very often. So hopefully it will be a long while before that happens again.

The girls are doing well and we are quickly heading into the thick of the holidays. Abbey's birthday is the 23rd, which all too often gets squeezed in there with Thanksgiving. Susie didn't write a lot of things in her notes that she left, but one piece of legal pad paper had a list of different little things. Among that was her desire that this house still be the home base and place for Thanksgiving. She wanted the family all here, together. She didn't want it to splinter, where part of the family would go one place and the other part go somewhere else. It is a sweet reminder of her love of family; and her strong sentiment that we all stick together. It will be sad in ways, but this was Susie's favorite holiday. I hope everyone realizes coming together was important to her. There was not one day in which Susie let you cry or get down around her. She had a really solid perspective that did not change. It was important to her that the cousins always have times together and know one another. I'm still in awe of how strong her faith was as well as how strong she was personally.

I would write more but Abbey is doing something very funny. She for some reason wants me off this computer. She asked me to go and get her some paper for which to draw on, and while I was doing that task she came in here and turned off the computer! Funny girl. She has been sweet to me as we both have fought this virus, and I'm grateful to her. Victoria, as always, has helped us and managed to not get sick. She is at the game, and she stays busy just like someone else I know. I'd better go before Abbey comes back to check on me! Please take care and have a great weekend. Despite the bad news about the Vols today, lets hope we win big down at Ole Miss. wooop here comes abbey.... Paul