Sunday, May 17, 2009

Good Week for us so Far

I had my first minor surgery on Thursday in Soldotna. We were very impressed with the doctors and the nurses and the other staff we had contact with. Very on the ball and willing to listen to you and make you as comfortable as possible. Brian was able to take 2 sick days off from school to take care of me so Brian and Alicia tag-teamed me for the last 3 days. I'm still a little sore if I get up too quick, but that is all.

We had Negative results on the ovarian cancer markers so that is really exciting. The test should have been done a year ago, but somehow was overlooked so we have been worrying about ovarian cancer for a year longer than we needed to.

We should have the rest of the results of the by-bi-ba -bopsies on Wednesday and we can figure out where to go from there.

The kids finally had a really good day at the boat launch. The Clarks have never seen a good charter fishing day so were very surprised when so many boats showed up today. We know how many boats should be there every day - the question this year is definitely the tourist economy. And yes, Sandy, Alicia does know exactly how many boats they have to have a day to make money; how much to eek out their payments; how much to be able to eat this week..... Thus the ulcer and the vomiting blood. But today, they made money ! ! ! YAY.

I think Brian welded every night this week. He had done like 3 projects all winter and we didn't know how the economy would affect his business. He has 3 to 5 days of school left so it is very comforting to know that the guys will be bringing him their boats. One scenario we have been hoping for is that because money is so tight, people will be wanting to fix things instead of buy new - and if that is the case, we should do okay this summer.

Heavenly Father answers prayers. He really does. We had lots of prayers answered this week.

There was a really bad wildfire out East End Road. We have many, many church friends who live out there and the area was blocked off, so no one knew which houses burned and which didn't. We have a really close family that just paid off their house 6 months ago. they are living in Anchor Point for the summer, so were not in the house when the fire came.

They said the fire burned right up to the house on one side and someone had dug around the rest of the house with a bulldozer and had saved it. We are all so glad. These are humble people who could not afford to lose their home. Prayers answered.

Anyway, I just watched this strange movie : Children of Heaven. Very strange, indeed. Not to mention it was not in English. Strange.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Can you imagine if they weren't living in the inn? Then the mom would have been stucked out in the woods and trying to get two babies out by herself, and they don't currently have a three or four wheeler running- so it would have been bad news. It is a blessing that they live at the inn.