The Low Family - Please Read & Help If You Can

Several months ago, I started following the Low family blog. The wife, Leslie, is the sister of a great girl who once took my kids' pictures (she's married to a guy/friend I went to church with growing up). When I started reading the blog, Leslie and her husband had recently found out that they were expecting triplet boys (no invitro or fertility treatments). These darling boys were born in December and in late February, the triplets were all diagnosed with Retinoblastoma, a rare childhood eye cancer. Within days the parents and infant boys (they have another son who is 2 or 3) flew to Toronto where the triplets have already undergone various treatments and one of them has had an eye removed. It is a remarkable, heartbreaking, and faith-promoting story. If you'd like to read more about it, here's the link to their blog:

 

Low Family Blog

 

Every once in a while, something that someone is going through hits close to home, and having some sort of a connection (by whatever degree) makes it that much more real. What the Low family is experiencing right now hits close to home for me. I hurt for the parents and get emotional thinking about what they must be feeling. I worry about the babies and what they're experiencing and I think about their older brother, how his world has changed with everything that is going on. I am reminded of what a blessing good health his and I am grateful that my children are healthy. I wish I had a magic wand that I could wave to cure the boys and make everything better but there is no such thing.

 

Emily, the sister that I know, set up a site for fundraising to help the family.  All funds received will be used for expenses as they have to travel for the boys' treatments and pay for food, lodging, airfare, etc. and anything else that comes their way as they care for all four of their boys. If you'd like to help out financially, you can click below:

 

Low Triplets Fundraising Site

 

If nothing else, please pray for this family and keep them in your thoughts. They need every ounce of support they can get whether it be spiritual, emotional, financial or otherwise. Everyone has an hour or time of need...this is theirs.

 

 

Happy March...1st Post of 2014!

Happy New Year, Happy Valentine's Day, and Happy St. Patrick's Day (tomorrow)! I seriously cannot believe that I haven't posted since November and that this is my first post of the year.  Okay, with my amazing procrastination skills, it's totally believable. But when I last wrote, I sure didn't think that it'd take until now for me to post again. Here I am, though, and I'm hoping (for the billionth time) to be back in the swing of things.

 

Right now I'm just knocking this out really fast before I get on to bigger and better things. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be cranking out posts for things we did at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. I wouldn't mind getting back to some actual writing/musing like the lists I used to write and such. We'll see what my sometimes-functioning brain comes up with.

 

That being said, I already know that tomorrow's post is the most important one that I will write this week (possibly this month, this year, etc.).  Today's writing is really just what I hope will be an attention getter for people to come back tomorrow.  Please tune in and read...

Opinion: Blogger's New Template Designer

A few days ago the fonts on my blog started to look wrong.  In trying to fix it, I learned the following:

• I think this new template designer that Blogger has put out rather stinketh.
• The minima template is no longer an option and I don't like the way the other templates jive (or don't jive) with the fun and cute backgrounds I want to use.
• I tried to go back to their "classic option" and got really scared because I didn't understand what exactly I was getting myself into and said option didn't seem to be what I really wanted anyway.
• I played with the template options, colors, widths, layouts, etc. and never really got what I wanted.
• Some of the new font options they have are cool...but I'm still mad.
• I guess what I've done to my blog tonight is just going to have to do for now.
• Pooh, pooh on Blogger.
• Unless they take my blog away from me for saying that...ugh.

If one of my bloggy friends out there knows what to do, will you please let me know?  Thanks...

RECIPE TO FOLLOW...

So you know how I mentioned in my Watt's Crockpot Beef Stew posting that I had lost a recipe I wanted to share and the girl who gave it to me had failed me in sending it to me again? Well, I suppose that my losing it wasn't really her fault. And I understand we all forget to e-mail people or do other things we said we'd do. Besides, none of that matters anymore. I un-lost the recipe over the weekend. Found it in a pile of papers that have absolutely NOTHING to do with baking or cooking. I have to leave it a minute so I don't have time to type it up this morning, but it will follow soon...