Greetings family and friends!
This has been a roller-coaster year! We were blessed with so many celebratory moments! In February, Mallory and Eric were engaged!! Erin graduated, with her MBA, from Pitt, in April. Michael and Erin became engaged in May!! In July, we welcomed a new addition…a Soft-Coated Wheaten named Rosie Mae. We were able to vacation at Bethany Beach, as a family, before I went back to work and classes resumed! Megan had a very successful 1st year, as a State Farm Insurance agent, in McMurray and earned a trip to Las Vegas and was one of twenty new agents who were invited to the corporate office,! We started a new tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving, on the Sunday before, so that we can all be together! Christmas is right around the corner and we are feeling the spirit!
Among all of our blessed moments to celebrate, we, also, had a few medical misfortunes. In June, my brother had an unexpected double by-pass…the day before, one of my mother’s varicose veins, in her ankle, burst…a week later, Bob’s daughter, Britney, had an emergency appendectomy!! Things come in threes…right? Well, we like sets of three, I suppose…3 more family members needed to some attention. In August, I started the ball rolling by having a mammary duct removed after some bleeding…high risk lesion. October came and my sister-in-law, Judy, had back surgery. Lastly, Ralph’s Myeloma became more aggressive. We knew this would happen one day…just not yet, I guess. He has finished 2 of 4 rounds of chemo and will have a second stem cell transplant in March. http://ralphchicone.blogspot.com/
After March, we feel that we can only heal and recover, because we have a lot on our agenda and much to celebrate! Luckily, to distract us, we are enjoying all the planning and fuss that goes along with wedding planning! Mallory will graduate, from Pitt Grad School, in May! We have to be on the dance floors for our children’s weddings, in June and September! Along with the American Cancer Society, we plan to celebrate more birthdays, as well!
As always, we wish you and yours well! May 2012 bring you everything that makes you happiest!!
Peace and Blessings!