Sometimes one is just glad to be alive! Getting gifts does not seem as important as it used to. We are trying not to teach greed. It will be more difficult when our Grandchildren get to school age. Then it becomes a bit more difficult to understand why Santa brought someone you are friends with so very much more than he left for you. I do not remember right now how I explained that to our girls, but it must have worked. I will have to ask them what they believed. It is amazing what the mind will believe...or what it will choose to believe. The weather has been typical...old days style, stormy with lots of snowstorms and slick roads. On the 16th it snowed 4 inches with another storm right behind it that dumped many more. Besides the bad weather, we had a rough end of November and start of December. Ava went into the Hospital on the 30th of November and did not get home until the 19th of December, a day before Jodee's Birthday. She had to be Life Flighted again for the second time. It was terrible weather. It had snowed and was icy underneath. This will be a short update, then I will extend it at a later date and time. Short story is that we did not need as much for Gifts this year. "Things" don't seem so important anymore. Just spending time together is our goal now. We are so blessed to still have our Ava for a bit longer. She has the most beautiful curls you could imagine. They are reddish blonde and just as many ringlets as you could ever have! They have put her on a different formula again. This one is to try and make the seizures happen less often. It still is not looking too promising, but then we were never promised a single thing to begin with! Having babies is not a simple nor easy thing. We tend to forget this in the modern times we live in. Anyway, more to this story later, when I am not so tired. Hugs all