Free Wendy's Burgers in Orlando!

You all know my secret - we eat a lot of fast food at our house. I grew up eating at Wendy's, and it is still a favorite of mine, so I was excited to hear that Wendy's is traveling across America with a new cheeseburger.

On Monday the Tour of America will be in Orlando giving away free Dave's Hot 'N Juicy Cheeseburgers and Frosty desserts.

40% thicker beef, fresh toppings, a buttered and toasted bun...

You know you want one!

Location: Cranes Roost Park (274 Cranes Roost Blvd, Altamonte Springs, FL 32701)

Time: Monday, Oct. 31, 4pm – 9pm. 

There will be trick or treating and costume contests at the park that evening, so bring your appetite for a good burger and a bucket to collect candy! If you arrive between 4 and 5:30, you will get to meet Wendy - not someone dressed up in a Wendy costume, the real Wendy Thomas! I will be there too, so stop by and say hi. 

If you are feeling left out because you aren't in Orlando, and you want a cheeseburger, check out the Tour of America schedule and see if they are coming to a city near you. 

Legal Stuff: I am being compensated for my time by Wendy's and The Motherhood, but the opinions and love for a good cheeseburger and Frosty are all mine! 

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Happiness Is A Big Bubble

Katarina has discovered the secret of making big soap bubbles.

(Does this make you think of Glinda the Good Witch flying into Oz?)

Happiness is a giant bubble.
And if it pops? You can always make another one!

What is making you happy today?

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Words Find Light

The pain is too much.

The hurt too deep.

The questions too many, and the answers too few. 

It becomes too hard to put on a smile and show the world that everything is fine, when it so obviously is not fine. 

The words hide deep within.

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I am convinced the stress of the last month has driven the words right out of me. I sit, staring at the blinking cursor, and can't type. I hold my journal and pen, and can't write.

It is a dark place when words fail you.

Today Katarina had words. A poem. A story. She wrote and typed and emailed. I sneaked a look at her, and saw the pencil tap tap tapping on her pad. She erased furiously, then wrote more.

After she fell asleep, I help her pad in my hand and felt the weight of her words. The lightness. The hope.

I opened my email and read her story beginning. Not deterred by a blinking cursor, she had typed sentence after sentence, ended it with a big I LOVE YOU! and signed it with her full name.

The passion and excitement radiated off the screen, and I felt it shine within me. For just a second, in the darkness, I felt hope break through. And I caught a glimpse of my words. Still there. Waiting.

This was a five minute stream of consciousness. 
If you want to participate - write for five minutes and visit Fadra. 

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*Updated* Asking For Prayers

Earlier this month my mother-in-law, Judy, shared her story of being diagnosed with breast cancer. A lot has happened since then, and I have gotten so many kind messages and emails inquiring about her and asking for an update.

After further scanning and tests the doctors are concerned that the tumor in her breast is close to rupturing. Because of that, she will be going in at 9:30cst Tuesday morning to have a mastectomy.

During the surgery they will also put a port in her chest to give her a hormonal treatment that should slow the growth of the tumors, and possibly shrink them.

She will also be getting a special shot, because the cancer has spread through her blood and into her bones, to strengthen and slow down bone breakage. Especially in her spine where she already has fractures in her vertebrae.

After recovery time from the surgery, she will have the radiation they previously planned, on the large tumor in her lower back. We now know it is the size of a grapefruit, and growing. It is causing her extreme pain, and interfering with her mobility. The radiation should shrink it, which will ease some of her pain.

The doctors have not yet addressed what will be done about the two smaller tumors further up her spine, or the suspicious spot they found on her thyroid (although they did say that the spot on her thyroid might just be a cyst), but we are hoping the hormone treatment will shrink them.

The doctor stressed that none of this is a cure, but it will give her more time, and he wants to give her every chance.

Surgery is always a scary thing, but we are holding on to the positive thoughts that taking out the tumor in her breast will help her to be able to better fight the other tumors.

My family has felt so overwhelmed and grateful for your support and prayers since she shared her story here. So I am coming to you again, my blog family, to ask you to pray for her today as she has her surgery.



We believe that prayer and is powerful and miracles do happen. Thank you.

**Update**
I spoke with Jim on the phone. She is out of surgery and doing well. The surgeon thinks that he was able to get the entire tumor. He found a lymph node that looked suspicious, and took it as well to biopsy. The port is in place. 


She will stay at the hospital tonight and should be going home tomorrow. 


Thank you so much for all your prayers today. I know it made a difference. 

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We All Live In A Yellow Submarine

Yellow is my joy color. Last week I had a particularly yellowy day. 

Thomas brought home branches full of little yellow flowers. 

I found these in the store (on sale, even!) and had to have them...
because we ALL live in a yellow submarine. 

A lollipop full of yellow, lemony goodness. 

Tart and sweet at the same time, a lot like life. 

Finding yellow all around, joy in the simple things, and letting the sun shine in...
that makes me happy!

What is making you happy today?

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