Fast....and Slow

To all my blog visitors...welcome. To bring everyone up to speed on my current status, you must be told that last week was the chemo pill ingestion, while week this is the return to normal. For the week of ingestion, Thurs, Fri, and Sat begins to really grow the nausea and general poor feelings. Then as I get off the pills, the return to normal starts slowly on Mon and Tues so that I'm feeling pretty good by the end of the week. So things are doing pretty good as the end of that week is right around the corner.
As I am trying to get through this month of June it was really interesting what I was able to observe. I'm sure that most others are enjoying the flury of items and events that are scheduled to occur over June because there is so much found on the calendar. A total family overload goes on, meaning that almost every second is accounted for until you pass out to go to sleep. To demonstrate what I'm talking about let see the Botkins. First there is the child. Hunter finished school, had his first communion, enjoyed some other family events, went camping with the boyscouts and loved that his baseball team went to the final playoff game with three games in the week. Hallie, on the other hand, had her special education students at the prom, working hard to get everyone out as a graduate (and trying to keep her emotions at bay since she is losing 7 students), and had to enjoy meetings and starting the papers for all those incoming next year. Of course there is me, with all my chores and watching over MY puppy so that she does not get into trouble (Hallie's puppy is always an Angel) HA HA! Other than that things are so easy. While this totally crazy scheduling can hit all families over this two week period, it is important to still invest your time and energy into your family relationships. Give up that needed TV for 15 minutes to share feelings and love with your family members. It is so amazing how giving up just 10 - 15 minutes to sit and share moments, thoughts, and time with a family member help to reinforce the relationship. It makes it very easy for all family members to see that while life pulls so hard at your time and focus, disconnecting to reconnect with a loved one will have a huge filling of your hearts.

As the end of the school year is here and the beginning of summer is upon us I just remind everyone to be safe, have fun and make memories!