Dear Kids,
Thanks for the wonderful Fathers Day presents you gave Dad. Thanks especially to all of you who went in on the self-propelled lawn mower. It’s really fast! Dad has to run along behind it, and he finishes the lawn in record time. It’s probably good exercise for him, too. What he’s lost in pushing (the old one) he more than makes up in running after the new one. Thanks again! And thanks to everybody who went in on the tablet, too. Dad really likes the bigger screen, and he uses more apps now. Gospel Library didn’t even run on his old one, or at least it didn’t use all its capabilities. Hooray for technology for studying the Gospel!
Most of you know that Chad Van Leuven is getting married next month. Donna and Anna and I got to meet his fiancee at a shower at Bonnie’s yesterday afternoon. We’re all delighted with her! Her name is Sarah Schwartz, and I think there are pictures of her on facebook. She’s really nice looking without being glamorous. She and Chad are getting married in the Medford Oregon temple. Barbara admitted she had totally given up on Chad ever getting married, so this is wonderful for her.
After the shower, Donna and Anna and I went food shopping at the Orem Winco. Donna’s not quite the shopping tornado that John is, but she filled two carts! I planned to help her, but I had to go to the ladies room first. One of the stalls was locked with nobody inside it, and there was a lineup of ladies, so I crawled under the door to unlock it. I came up fine on the inside, but I had cut open my wrist on something, and it bled and bled. So instead of helping Donna, I was clutching a piece of toilet tissue over my wrist to stop the bleeding. When Donna found out, she gave me a bandaid. She always carries them in her purse. With children like hers, she says, you just naturally carry bandaids.
I’ve been working really hard in our yard, digging and hauling rocks and doing sprinklers. My leg still hurts a lot, but I have plenty of energy, which I’m really grateful for. There’s a spot of something in my lung, and I have another appointment with my oncologist on July 11. If he decides it needs treatment, I might have to have chemo or radiation, which could lay me up for a while. So I’m doing all the outside work I can right now (and lovin’ it). Hopefully the spot will turn out to be nothing at all.
I’m having trouble typing this because Scout keeps walking on the computer keys. He’s head-butting me, too. Last Monday while I was giving Anna her piano lesson, Scout jumped up on the piano keys and walked back and forth on them. Anna said, “He just wants attention!” Don’t we all!
Lots of love, Mom
