Harper Leigh, Cali and Craft Goodies...

  I am so happy and excited to share a new picture of Harper Leigh who is now one month old.  Time is flying by and she is growing so fast.  Many of her sweet little newborn outfits are already too small.

   I really missed her while I was in Cali, but I also had a great trip and had a lot of fun with Brian. The weather was wonderful and it was so nice to be out in the warm sunshine.  Of course, I flew home the night before the "Blizzard", which thankfully was pretty much a bust.   I also was wiped out for a few days and am now just getting back to feeling okay.

   This precious baby makes me so happy and I'm totally in love with her.  Being a Mom has always been so special to me, now being a Grand Mom is even better!!   Pure LOVE!

   Not much new -- One of these days I need to figure out a good and easy way to try and sell the rest of my craft supplies.  It has now been months since I have created and I no longer have the energy or time.   I just also don't know how to easily do this?   I guess maybe go back to packing up the Priority Mail packages?  If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, PLEASE let me know.  And if there are ANY craft supplies, machines, IKEA furniture etc., that you are looking for -- I'm sure I might have it and will be happy to sell it for very reasonable prices.

  We are thinking (hoping) to put our house on the market sometime in the next couple of months, so I really need to finally purge this all!!    I still have one full room of stuff, not to mention all the things packed in closets -- oh my!  It's a pretty overwhelming job, but something I must do.

   As for my cancer battle  --  it seems almost impossible to believe that it will be two years this coming Monday (March 27th) since the dreadful day I learned that I had a brain tumor, which was ultimately a metastasis from Stage IV Lung Cancer.  I'm a very lucky to still be fighting and taking each day as they come.   I don't fell at that well most days and the hardest part is the relentless fatigue and a general feeling of being sick.  It's not fun -- and not easy!   But, I'm still trying hard to remain positive -- I adore Harper and want to be in her life as long as I possible can.   Next week, I'll be back at the hospital for my new round of labs and also Head to Toe CT Scans and at this point the "Scanxiety" is setting in.  I hope and pray that the scans will be okay?   

   Wishing you all a wonderful Spring and hope you are all enjoying LIFE!   Treasure and cherish every moment!!

   XOXO,

     Lisa

Happiness is a Grandbaby....

.....And I am delighted to let you all know that my sweet Grand-daughter made her arrival on February 21st a few days after her original due date.  She's a healthly happy baby and weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz. at birth.   Mom had a very long and hard labor and after almost 32 hours, Harper was safely and happily delivered by C-Section.   Needless to say, none of us had much sleep that Monday night and we all expected her to be born on Monday, but she just was too big and not ready to come out on her own!    We are all so thankful that she was never under and stress and was born perfectly healthy the following morning.  It was not so easy on her Mom, but's she is healing well from the procedure.   The kids are in LOVE with their little girl and they are both wonderful new parents, it all seems very natural to them -- they are such a sweet little family.  

   She is an angel and has been a really good baby.  She sleeps and eats well and when she is up, she's very content and happy, they are blessed.   This picture was taken the day she was born the very first time I held her -- Instant LOVE!! 

  She is now almost two weeks old -- it's amazing at how fast the times flies by.  I am so in love with her -- it reminds me very much of the same wonderful bond I had when my boys were born.   The love is something you truly can't describe, it's the best!!   This little dress is so sweet, too bad she's pretty much already outgrown it, as she has with many of her "newborn" size clothes.  Thankfully, we did not buy a lot of tiny sizes and she still has lots of of wonderful outfits to wear.   The first week she was home we had some fabulous Spring weather with record-breaking temps...it was wonderful.

   

   

  Sorry I am behind in posting about her arrival.  I've been visiting often and am now preparing for my trip to San Diego to visit Brian.   I'm leaving bright and early Tuesday morning and can't wait to be there, although I know I am going to miss this sweet little one.  I'll be checking in on her all the time and asked the kids to be sure to keep texting me new pictures, while I am away.   This is not a very long trip (just a week), but that's probably good for me, as I'm really exhausted more and more every day., the cancer battle continues and I'm sure for my next round of CT Scans at the end the of month.   Amazingly it's been almost two years since the day I was diagnosed.  I'm happy to be stable and HOPE these next scans will all be good ones.    I really need a nice little vacation before I have them and may need to re-start treatments soon! UGH!    For now, I'm focusing only on "Happy" things --  this sweet little baby and spending some time with Brain in the warm California sun!  After that wonderful "Spring Fever" weather we went right back to winter and have actually now had "unseasonably" cold weather...the wind chill last night was below zero!   Brrrr!  Thankfully it's already back up in the high 30's today and will get warmer each day, but I'm sure it's going to be a whole lot warmer in California and that's my favorite kind of weather!!   I can't wait to be in that nice warm sun!!  

   Thanks for stopping by -- I am thrilled to finally have my very own Grandchild -- she's the newest LOVE in my life.