Finally Summer ENDS!

Whew! What an unbelievable summer that has been truly enjoyed by the entire Botkin family this year. Now it is finally over! Thank goodness we can get back to normal! We spent the whole summer focusing on having complete family moments through unbelievable events and escapades. I am so happy to have had so many special memories with Hallie and Hunter. We got to enjoy things that we had never enjoyed before. The result was great laughs, awesome pictures and simply unbelievable memories. I also wanted to take a little moment and give a wonderful thank you to those specific individuals who helped our dream of family memories become a reality, and to know that they too became a part of those fantastic memories that will forever be a part of our lives. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Next, today was another one of those continuing MRI assessment of that little thing located in the safety of my skull. My doctor was busy consulting with several other people to try and get the true meaning of that little growing white spot and the official conclusion is we don't know yet. Brilliant! I'm, sorry for my silliness, but I seem to believe even more than before, that every moment of my time left here on the planet is totally controlled by God. I am here to complete that thing and will enjoy life for five minutes of fifty years. Only God has this strange thing totally under control. I am happy to wake each day and enjoy that I have been given another wonderful breath of loving and fantastic life.

As this unknown thing still continues over every thirty day window I have taken a moment to think about many things. I was having a conversation with a girl starting her new classes. She was telling me all about the new changes with having to change classrooms, having many different teachers and difficult class locations. Interesting, I thought to myself. She had stated that there were many different problems that she had never before had to fix or avoid. As we sat I was thinking that so many people of all ages can see their difficult moment as either a problem or a challenge. It is very simple that every one of the unwanted and unforeseen events can be a problem to some and a challenge to others. Many look at their problems as that moment which forever negativly changes their future and creates a new outlook for them, while others see that as a challenge which is simple a bump in the road. The challenge is nothing more than that thing which makes the individual concentrate, focus and create a new way of thinking and feeling. Such hard work helps you to realize that there is truly nothing waiting to stop you in your tracks, just something to allow yourself to adapt. Funny how such a simple thing can be so difficult.