Great Easter

We moved Mandy into her new house in Wilmington. We really like her roommate. Thanks to Josh for coming and helping. I just don't like to carry heavy things. Muffin had her first hotel stay. The Choice Hotels is a pet-friendly hotel. She was great and enjoyed seeing Fendi.

Mama goes tomorrow - March 26 for her report on the bone marrow biopsy. She should start her chemo very soon...maybe even this week.

Easter was great. It is one of my favorite holidays. And Steve was home for 4 straight days!

Love - Beth

UVA, Here We Come!

So my advisor has decided to move to UVA. Our group will be moving sometime early to mid 2009. I have a lot of questions to be answered between now and then. I'll post again when I have more info.

An update from the Joyces

Mrs. Joyce had her one month checkup today following her shunt placement and is now able to drive again. She continues to see improvements, and the doctor considers her surgery a success!

Speaking of surgery, please pray for Sam tomorrow. He will have outpatient surgery on his nose to try to stop his recurrent nosebleeds. He arrives at the surgery center at 9:15 AM. Hopefully this will be a more permanent fix. He also will be getting a referral to Duke or Chapel Hill to see a hematologist in the near future. He will have a blood study done to see if he has the clotting factor disorder that Billy and I have.

Chuck and Kelli went to Grace Community to help feed the homeless tonight. Our church sponsors the meal every third Wednesday. Tonight they feed approximately 160 people in Greensboro. It's a very humbling experience to see so many homeless people in our city and to realize how appreciative they are for a hot meal.

I hope we can all get together soon. Any chance we can meet in Wake Co. sometime?

I'm adding a picture I love...

Love, Caroline

A place for our story...

One of the things I think will be neat with our Blog is it will be a place for the story of our family. Sapping - probably - but that is what happens when another April is almost ready to roll around another year. Steve is gone again :( But will have off Good Friday. We will be moving Mandy to a different place this weekend. She is really excited. It is a house with a fenced in backyard and a wonderful mature roommate. We still need to figure out what we want to do for Mama's 70th birthday.

Love - Beth

Changes

I made a few changes to the blog layout...blue in honor of Mama's favorite color. Let me know if you liked the other one better. Kelli was able to get the picture to show up. I'll try to add more pictures when I have more time.
I sign Kelli up for driver's ed today...hard for me to believe!
Caroline

Hello, from the Padgette's

I am challenged so don't expect lots from this end. I am trying. We are fine. Staying busy. I am in Atlanta this week for a conference. Ronnie is doing therapy on his hand and staying busy with photography and basketball games. Bryan is working hard and staying busy. Ashley is working hard at school and staying busy as a bee. Boy do I remember those days, Youthink they will never end.
Thanks Beth for going tomorrow. Please call Ronnie or I when you have some news. I don't know if I will be able to get on line tomorrow.
Love you guys and thanks for doing this Caroline.

Thank you to Caroline

I wanted to thank Caroline for taking time to set this up. I think this will be a really great way for everyone to keep in touch.
I plan on going with Mama tomorrow for her visit with Dr. Crews.

News from the Gurkin Household

So, if you haven't already heard, Sharon and I may be moving. I hope we don't have to, but it is a possibility. My research advisor told us last Thursday that he has two offers from other universities to move his research. One option is UVA; the other is Iowa State. I'll find out if he's accepted either offer or NCSU's counter-offer in the middle of next week. We'll then have to make a decision on where to move (either move ourselves or me move to a new research group). Due to the unique nature of the research, it would be difficult to switch groups and not lose (or at least partially lose) the ~2 years of research I have done. My advisor is very kind and gracious. He understands the difficulty that this is to all the group members, especially to Sharon and me. I told him that Sharon needed one more year of ILT teaching to have her full NC teaching license and he thought that maybe he could leave us behind for a year and then move!! His willingness to work with people is one of the qualities I especially admire about him. Please be in prayer for us as we go through this process during the next few weeks. I'll let you know when something is official.

That's all for now...

We have a blog!

I have created a blog for our family. I will send you instructions for getting on to add a post if you'd like to add anything. Caroline