Where has January gone.........

Goodness, this month had flown by. Next thing you know Christmas will be right around the corner!!
I hope everyone has had a great 2009 so far. We certainly have!!
The boys are currently in the middle of their basketball season. Both are doing well. Troy has gotten a lot more aggressive than last year(he was actually growling at the other team last game - weird, I know). He did make his 1st basket a few games ago. Zachary is still the same 'ol Zachary. Mellow and laid back......he has gotten some shots off but hasn't made any baskets as of yet. Although he did draw a foul last game. Watch out for him, he's a beast :) You know they say it's always the quiet one's........
The boys just had their 100th day of school. They are both doing well. Zachary got 5 A's and 1 B on his report card. Much better than the 5 B's and 1 A he got the last time. Troy did well on his report card also. Zachary will be going on a field trip to the Desoto Caverns next month - sounds like it should be fun. Who wouldn't think riding on a bus for 2 hours with a bunch of 5th graders fun......I can't wait :)
Well, since Zachary is in the 5th grade this year they have a lot of special activities. This year they are having a 5th grade dance. All year long Zachary and his friends have been making plans on who they were going to ask to the dance. Zachary told us Sunday that he was going to ask Brianna. I know most all of his friends but not her. She just moved here this year from Mobile. Anyway, he came home last night and he said he did ask her...........to be his girlfriend!!and she said yes...... I thought he was just going to ask her to the dance. Guess he had other plans!! Anyway, I guess I'll meet her on the field trip, if they're still "dating" then. You know how those 5th grade romances are.
Baseball registration starts this weekend.......think I'll wait until the very last minute. It's not like I just have $235 laying around........the boys better be working hard for the money this year!! I expect to see some home runs!! HA HA!!
I hope everyone has a blessed week!!
I'll post again soon.........I hope.......

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gosh, It's been almost a month since I've posted anything!! I have been so busy. Glad the holiday's are over so everything can get back to normal!!

Well, we all had agreat Christmas. I hope you enjoyed your's as well. The Sunday before Christmas Ronnie's brother, sister-in-law and niece and nephew came down and we had Christmas with them. We did Christmas at our house Christmas morning or course then it was off to my mom's for Christmas with the family. The morning after Christmas we went to Tallahassee to have Christmas with my dad, stepmom and sister and came back that Sunday. Just in time to go back to work!! Yuck!! I was off yesterday as well but had to work today.........thik it would have killed the to let us close today too? I don't think so!!

Last time I blogged I told you that Ronnie has his last chemo treatment. On Christmas Eve he got the results from his Pet Scan!! Wonderful news.........he has NO active lymphoma!! Yeah!! He will go back in 6 weeks for a check up and at that time they will schedule another Pet Scan. We could not have asked for a more wonderful Christmas present!! I thank God that he has come thru this all so well. And he has been in such a good mood since then. Glad to have the old Ronnie back. I love him so much!!

The kids go back to school on Wednesday - I'm sure they are looking forward to that!! :) Zachary wants a new cell phone so I made a deal with him that if he made all A's on his next report card that I would buy him a new one. His last progress report he had 1 B and the rest A's so I know he can do it.
The boys are in full basketball swing now. Troy's team is 2-0 and Zach's team is 1-1. They were off last week and were supossed to start back this Saturday but with so many people being out of town for the holidays and the Sugar Bowl they have cancelled this weekend's game and rescheduled them for next week. Troy's make up game will be Tuesday night at 6:30 and Zach's make up game will be Friday night at 7:30. Good luck boys!!

Well, I hope everyone's new year had started off great!! Have a great rest of the week. I'll try to be back next week with some more exciting news about the Patterson Family!! he he....

Hello everyone...........

Goodness, I can't even remember the last time I blogged. My sister-in-law Heather reminded me that I need to - it's been a while.
Well, Ronnie has his last chemo treatment the day before Thanksgiving. :) We had a surprise party for him the following Saturday (The Iron Bowl). It went great. He has no clue we had been planning this. I am so thankful for everyone that helped me pull it off and for everyone that came to celebrate. We had a great time. I hope everyone else did as well!!
Ronnie will have his PET scan on December 19th. He will then find out the results on December 24th...........Christmas Eve. What a wonderful gift it would be for them to tell us that he is cancer free!! Sure is hard to wait that long though!! Everyone keep your fingers crossed!!
This Sunday Zachary, Troy, Lacy, Dalton, Logan, and Carter will all be singing in the Christmas musical at our church (Chapel Hill Baptist). They will be singing with the adult choir and they will sing at both services - 9:00 and 10:15. If anyone wants to come we will be at the 10:15 service to watch(I work in the nursery at the 9:00 service). It should be really good.

Mercedes as announced yet more cut backs. They will now be shut down from December 15 - January 20th ( I think). Thy will get paid for 1 wk in December and 1 week in January. Also, they were supossed to be returning to working 5 days a week in January instead of the 32 hours a week they have been on for a month. Now they will only be working 30 hours a week - 4 days a week , 7-1/2 hours a day..........and when they are on nights the will go in everyday at 4:15 instead of 6:15. Also, as stated before, the will still be shut down for 4 weeks in June. They will get paid for Memorial day and then they will have to use 9 of their vacation days and then will not get paid for the other 2 weeks.. Geez!! Somethings gotta give here. It is very nerve racking to say the least. Hopefully there won't be anymore "meetings" at Mercedes for a while. Sure hope the economy picks up really soon.

Well, that's about all I have for right now. Hope everyone has a great weekend. ROLL TIDE!!!!
Oh. and I am using my last 1/2 day of vacation today and Jennifer and I are going to see Twilight!! I can't wait. Just finished the 2nd book of the 4 book series. Need to go get the 3rd book - ASAP!!

What a long month this has been..............

It seems like I can't get anything done these days. My house is wreck, I am in the process if recovering the cushions on my dining room chairs(it's taking approx 1 hour per cushion!!), Thanksgiving is next week, I have family coming into town the day after Thanksgiving, I have x-mas shopping to do the day after Thanksgiving, basketball practice has already started for Zach and Troy(Zach on Tues & Fri) (Troy on Wed & Thurs), I have crazy cat that no one can seem to catch that I need to get rid of and I am still working in the nursery at church every Sunday morning. This morning I woke up with a little bit of a sore throat. I was not happy. I definetly do not have time to get sick, so I had a long talk with my self and it seems to have worked because (knock on wood) I have felt fine since I got to work!!

On to other things.........
Ronnie had a bad day Saturday. He is still on blood thinners since he had the blood clot last month. Saturday he had a nose bleed that lasted about 3 hours. We finally got it to stop. That was a little scary!! It hasn't happened again since then thank goodness!!

Zachary got his progress Friday and he got 4 A's and 1 B. Yeah! Good for him!!

That's all folks.............

Finally home............

Well, Ronnie finally went home from the hospital yesterday. He was very glad to be back at home. He will not return to work until Monday December 1st. He will have his chemo treatment that he missed today. And then he will have his last treatment on the day before Thanksgiving. He will be so glad to be done with the treatments, hopefully for good.

Back at work..............

Well, for those of you who don't know, Ronnie is in the hospital with double pneumonia. He went in Thursday night about 7:30 and is still in the hospital. He just told me that the Dr thinks he can go home tomorrow. They want him to go a full day without a fever. He is doing much better than he was this weekend. He is still on oxygen and is still taking the breathing treatments but he is breathing a lot better than before.
He was supossed to have a chemo treatment this past Friday but they held off on that. I don't know when he will make it up but his Dr. said he didn't want to wait too long to do it. We are hoping that they will do it while he's still in the hospital. But we'll have to wait and see.
It has been a very long weekend for us all. Hopefully this will be all over soon.

WOW!! Time really flies.................

So, I pulled up my blog and realized I hadn't been on here in 2 weeks!! Shame on me!!

Everything has been going well. Lee won the game we went and watched. He did great. And Claire, my niece, did great cheering the football team on. They both have grown up so much in the last few years. Hard to believe!!

Zachary and Troy had their birthday parties last Saturday. Everyone had a great time. With their birthday money they each bought a Nintendo DS and 3 games a piece. I haven't seen them since.................JK but really they are enjoying them.

Since Ronnie had his 10th treatment 2 weeks ago he has now been able to stop giving himself the shots in the stomach of the blood thinner. I know he is extremely happy about that. He will have his 11 treatment this Friday. Only one left after this one!! YEAH!!! I know he can't wait.

Well, yesterday was election day. Depending on how you voted, some of us are in mourning and some of you are celebrating. All we can do is take each day as it comes and pray for the best outcome.

Only a few weeks until Thanksgiving........I love the holidays!! And the weather is lovely!!

Hope every has a great week.........................