Thursday, December 27, 2007

Merry Christmas!


Merry Christmas everyone! Big Mama had a good trip home for Christmas. We picked her up Sunday (23th) afternoon. When we got ready to leave Timber Ridge she cried a little because she said she was going to miss all her friends she has made. She had to give everyone hugs before we left. She has truly made an impression on lots of the clients (patients) and staff members at Timber Ridge. Everything went well while she was home. Big Mama & Papa O had Christmas lunch at Teresa & Freddy's house then we had Christmas dinner (pizza, we were all sick of turkey & dressing!!) at their house. The kids had a ball opening their gifts and playing with Big Mama. She enjoyed watching them open the gifts. She even said Papa O did a good job picking out the kids presents, except the purple lap desk thingy that he wrapped & put Asher's name on and it was suppose to be Andrea's, Asher's was the black one!! lol Some of the rest of the family came over also that evening. Including the newest addition to our family...Bryson Tyler...As noted by the picture I think that was actually her favorite part of her trip home!!! She did well going back on Wednesday. But as soon as she arrived back at Timber Ridge she was already counting down the days until she gets to come home again! We will pick Big Mama up again on Sunday December 30th early in the morning, she should be home by noon or so. And she will get to stay until the early morning of Wednesday Jan. 1st. If anyone would like to go visit her I'm sure she would love it. Papa O (Owen) just asks that you call first in case they go out to eat or something, that way they don't miss you. We should be getting the results of her MRI & Cerebral Arteriogram sometime within the next week or so. I will update again when we get those results and also again after New Years. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support. We love you all!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Christmas Cantata


Big Mama got to come home for the first time in 3 months!! Papa O picked her up from Timber Ridge on Sunday afternoon. She got to attend the Community Choir practice and then come home for some good 'ole Pizza Depot pizza!! Monday, Big Mama had lots of visitors throughout the day from her fellow school teachers. She enjoyed every bit of it. Monday evening was the Community Choir Christmas Cantata. She had to wear her tennis shoes because she has a brace that she has to wear on her right ankle and she didn't have any other shoes that had a back on them. Even though she was wearing white tennis shoes with her black outfit she still insisted on wearing black socks. But for some strange reason we could not find any of her black socks so in the end Teresa letting Big Mama wear her black socks and Teresa wore a pair of white socks with her black outfit. Thank goodness she had on boots and you couldn't see them!! lol Big Mama did fairly well at the cantata. She did begin to tear up when she first got on stage, but that didn't last long. When she practiced with the CD's Mrs. Gibson had given her, she knew almost all the words to all the songs. But for some reason she didn't sing very much, she kept looking through her music book. Come to find out the book that they had given her didn't have the pages in the right order. But she couldn't have seen them very well anyway. Her eyesight is getting better but she still has problems seeing little words (and music). After the cantata we had to take Big Mama into a separate room because she was getting very overwhelmed. She got to see lots of people that she hasn't seen since her injury and she really didn't want to leave but we had to make her. Papa O had to take her back this morning (Tuesday). He said she whined a little about having to go back but when they got there she was fine because she knew she was going to get to come back at Christmas. Overall things went well and we were all sooooo glad she got to come home for a bit. Thank you to everyone who came to see her or called. She enjoyed it so very much.


PS. Please continue praying for Big Mama. She is having another procedure on December 11th. to look at the vessels and arteries in her brain to see if there is any further damage or anything else that might cause more damage.