Loose Strife

We just got home from Arkansas earlier this evening. Laura’s condition is pretty much unchanged — which means outstanding. We saw just about everyone and had a great visit. The girls had a ball. Joe and Natalie have now left for Virginia and Laura and I are settling in for some quiet time at home until the visitors start arriving this weekend. (Everyone starts coming out of the woodwork when you start talking about getting your affairs in order!)
I promise to post lots of pictures later with more about everyone we visited with. In the mean time I’ll just say that we visited Coleman relatives in North Little Rock, Ozark, and Holly Grove. Still others came to see us from far away places like Mississippi. We ate lots of barbeque and soul food. Visiting and food are inseparable. The whole trip was very emotional for Laura and I know she’s so pleased that we got down there to see everyone.
Laura got a little sick while there and she rested quite a bit. We suspect that her current chemo dose is a little high. She’s on a one week on / one week off schedule and a day after she completed her week she was starting to perk up.
While Laura rested or visited, the girls and I had a little bit of fun here and there. We went fishing, boating, and swimming. They played with cousins and received lots of spoiling. I road in a combine.
The trips to and from were enough to put you off plane travel. We were delayed a day due to bad weather both coming and going, but luckily that meant that we spent a day visiting family in Virginia during the first extended layover and family in Little Rock on the way back home. And this morning, leaving Little Rock, we almost didn’t get on our rebooked flight.
Lots of stories that I hope to get to some time. But it’s hard to justify delving into any one without the others and I’m ready to go to bed. Just wanted to let folks know that we’re back home, we loved visiting everyone in Arkansas, and Laura’s still doing well.