Cindy Update Blog

The week is almost over and what a week it has been. Although it began not the most pleasantly but is finishing off quite nicely.

First, the boring news report. I was in a lot more pain than I anticipated. But as the week passed so did the pain. It was a good to have my parents here for a few days. Aside from Stephen, if anyone was to be a witness to my state, it was comforting to know that it was my mom and dad. Although I must admit that it is hard to be in pain and have a loved one watch and be completely unable to do anything about it. We will be able to put this one in the memory books as a moment of family time shared even though the pains of life.

On a brighter note. This week was a big change in the Tamming household. All three children are now in school. Sarah began her educational career for the first day on Friday. Just like most parents' story about the day the youngest sets off for school, ours is no different. Stephen and I planned and did walk the girls to school. When the bell rang, we brought Sarah to the kindergarten door, gave her hugs and kisses and watched her confidently walk into the school. But this is not how Sarah thought that her first day should go. At dinner the night before, she declared to us that we did not need to take, Nicole and Meagan could walk her - every parent's dream, right?. As we left the schoolyard to return home, Stephen mentioned that it was nice to finally have one child who did not cry when you left home at school. I just smiled and thought "That's our Sarah!"

Meagan turned seven this week. It truly is amazing how quickly time passes and how they do grow up way too fast. To celebrate, she had a party today with a few friends - Emma, Kijana, and Kylie. Meagan had wanted her party to include a craft called a friendship bracelet since she was going to spend time with all her friends. Here was her artistic nature coming out combined with the sweet sensitive side. Later, we had to chuckle as encouragement amongst the friends continued while they are trying to break open the pinata. As one girl was striking the pinata, the others chanted "GO GIRLFRIEND, GO GIRLFRIEND." It was a couple of hours filled with just "girlfriend" time.

This is just a snippit of the week. I am hoping that next week will be just or even more eventful than this one, but a lot less painful.

Cindy