I know I promised CHA updates "later in the week," but life got in the way. Let me 'splain. No there is too much. Let me sum up.
Tuesday: We had a baby shower for our own Carolyn Jolley, who is due in May, and we were busy checking press proofs for our last special issue Scrapbook Play with Photos, a very bittersweet experience, as you can imagine. But the issue is fantastic! Watch for it in March.
Wednesday: I got rear-ended in the morning (no injuries, just slight vehicle damage) on my way to spend the day offering moral support to my sister-in-law, Becky, who's been in the hospital since last Friday battling an infection related to her portacath (a device implanted beneath her skin that is used for her chemotherapy treatments).
Thursday: Becky's entire family has been exposed to the stomach flu, and I'm the only one healthy enough to go to the hospital. So I happily spend another day there, watching chick movies on a portable DVD player with Becky, who is remaining incredibly positive throughout her ordeal. (We watched The Holiday and Bend it Like Beckham. Awesome.)
Friday: I take another day off work to watch Becky's two little kids (ages 4 and 2), who are handling everything amazingly well, despite having their mother in the hospital for a solid week, and being passed from relative to relative.
Saturday: I come down with the stomach flu myself while driving to my grandmother's 80th birthday party, 80 miles away. We gave her an adorable scrapbook that I now wish I had photographed so I could share it with you, but I was in no mind to take pictures.
So my CHA updates will surely be old news by the time I get around to posting them, but you won't care, right? I didn't think so.
Oh no, what an ordeal the past few days have been! I hope the fact you're blogging means you're feeling better from that stomach flu. And I hope your grandmother enjoyed the beautiful scrapbook you gave her. :)
Can't wait to see the special issue. Yes, it'll be bittersweet to flip through it. It's already feeling strange, flipping through my old issues of Simple, thinking the end of an era will soon be upon us. And it feels even stranger, flipping through my latest CK, knowing it'll be the closest to the real thing in a few short months. *sigh*
CHA updates... bring 'em on! New news, old news... it's all good.
Posted by: Barb | February 08, 2009 at 05:45 PM
Oh my Gosh! You've had quite a week! I hope everyone, including Becky, get better real soon!
Posted by: Nicky H | February 08, 2009 at 05:48 PM
There's nothing more important than what you did this week. Thanks for sharing it...makes me a little whiney (for a little while at least).
Posted by: Deirdre Keating | February 08, 2009 at 06:27 PM
Feel better soon!
Posted by: young c-m | February 08, 2009 at 07:45 PM
Ugh. What a week. You're a sweetie to take good care of your sister in law! Hope this week is better!
Posted by: Candice | February 09, 2009 at 07:03 AM
Oh UGH! What a week. Hoping that Becky, you, and the rest of the fam get to feeling better soon!
XOXOXO!
Posted by: Linda Barber | February 09, 2009 at 08:56 AM
hope everyone gets better soon. glad you can be there to help out your sil. =)
Posted by: Aly D | February 09, 2009 at 02:20 PM