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I will get this other cup to you.  Amy likes the dishes and the punch bowl. She is thinking of times we can use them already.

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If it wasn't a cup from that puch bowl set that broke, then it was from another. One of the punch bowls has a cup missing because Norma told me one got broken in the kitchen at Julie's reception. By-the-way, I found two

cups that will match that punch bowl if you want them. I don't know where you would keep them, but they would go with the set.

Love, Mom

I' moving to the Dr's office

The ultrasound was good today.  My fluid is "low normal" at 10 (Cathrina said she was at 4 when they induced her, and 5 when they put her on bed rest--so I am good) and she weights about 3.5 pounds, right on for my  due date (or maybe even a few ounces under), which I will never see (March 26th due date)  because Dr. Joseph is going to treat me as "regular" diabetic and do the amnio at 37 weeks, which is March 5th. Keturah may have this baby for her birthday, after all.  He says that with diabetic babies they don't mature as fast as they do in regular pregnancies and that's one of the reasons they start monitoring so close at 37 weeks. He said in the 50's before insulin the moms/babies just died. And after insulin the babies were doing great, then dying at full term for some reason, and then they started taking the babies early and some still died, and now after lots of practice they have the system down.  

Next week I start the non stress test and ultrasound each week. He  doesn't want me to go more than 4 or 5 days without coming into to  office, which he admitted is "overkill" but he says they also won't miss  anything. So my appt next week is on Wednesday for the NST, Ultrasound  and Doctor.  I think I've decided to stay there, I feel comfortable with how serious they monitor me, and I will probably switch and have Tracey (another midwife) do the delivery with Dr. Joseph as the backup. Grandma Nonie really liked him (Dr. Joseph) and thinks I should let him do the delivery.  I will still see him over the next month and he will be the one to the amnio.    

I also, still have to see LeAnne for the diabetic monitoring, and now she is at McKay Dee hospital,  so I am living at the doctors office for the next 6 weeks. 

Love, Kimberly 

Photos

Mom,

I have been extremely touched by the photos that you have sent. It is an amazing thing when one feels connected to a deceased family member via a picture. I do remember small things about my Great-grandmother, but not enough. I am glad that you taught me what kind of woman she was. It is amazing to look at a photo and feel time and distance shrink.  I never saw Aunt Renee so young looking. She was a stunner. I don't know why she never thought that she was attractive. She was beautiful! I just remember her in all her tom-boyishness, and she was just Aunt Renee.  I thought of her as a surrogate Grandma. I remember her chastising me when I told her that I wanted to call her Grandma. She did it so lovingly, but still, she seemed like a real Grandma. Thank you for helping to bring her into my thoughts.

Mommy, I love you. I miss you. I hope that you are well.  Mel

Remember

I sent AnnMarie food from Kirsten. I asked Kirsten to call her and talk to her tomorrow and then give me the feedback. Let me know what else she needs. Would she like some reading material--or does Matthew take up too much of her time, so that she doesn't get to read?

If you are off on Friday and Saturday, are you going to be in Provo? Hope that you get some rest. You need to take care of yourself as well. You need to be able to help AnnMarie, and so you need to take care of yourself so that you won't be too tired to travel or to watch the children. I am sorry--I know you have a Dad, but I know that you need your oldest daughter to step in and remind you that you tend to do too much, so that you can keep your mind on other things (you've always been like that). Just be careful and don't wear yourself out, we want you to be healthy.  I know you're thinking, "Me? Healthy?" You know what I mean.

I love you.
Mel

Concerns

Dear Myrna and Leonard,

        We got a message from you the other day which we wondered if you intended for us to receive.  It expressed concerns about AnnMarie's health.

        But even if it was unintended, we are worried and concerned with you.

        Even though I don't know a whole lot about either lymphoma or M.S., from what I do know, I believe lymphoma would be preferred, because it has a better chance of being cured than does M.S.   At least that is the way I understand it.

        We have been praying for her, and you, hoping that she may have something more benign.

        We received some worrisome news from Diane over the weekend,too. She has been having some bleeding and pain near the female organs, and she found out that she has a fibroid cyst near her uterus, about the size of

chicken egg.  The doctor told her she will need it out before too long, but he said it would be OK to postpone the surgery until Kory returns from an assignment he is on.  So, we are praying about that, too.

        Pres. Kenison sent in our mission papers last Thursday, so I guess we should learn something about that in a couple of weeks also.

        Keep us informed about concerns that come along.  OK?

                                    With love,  Colleen and Russ

Sick

Mom,

Could you let Dad know that I am helping Mikaela and I won't be able to talk to him tonight like I had hoped. She is having really big problems with her breathing. She is coughing so much she is throwing up. Tell Dad "Happy Birthday!" for me and I will call him later this week. I am sorry. I need to go. I can hear Mikaela in the bathroom.

Mel

Thanks!

Mom and Dad,

I've tried to call you back, but the line is busy.  We're headed out to get stuff for tonight's Stake New Year's Eve party.  Whitney seems to be fine this morning.  I'm still giving her lots of Cranberry Juice just in case, but she's not shouting about it hurting when she wets her diaper any more.  I guess I was just acting a little paranoid.  Still not sure why she had pink stains in her diaper, though.  I'll just keep a close eye on her for the next couple days.

Hope you have a fun party tonight.  Wish I could be there!

Thanks for the sewing machine and the video and Whitney's Barbie.  As she was opening it, she kept saying "Wow, Ohhhh" and opening her mouth wide.  Then she saw the front side of the box and proudly showed it to her daddy.  Needless to say, she loves it!  Wish you could see her face.

Love,
Kirsten

Saturday Baptism and Birthdays

Dane's Baptism is at 3pm on Saturday.  We are planning on doing Dane's, Brigitta's and Dad's birthday party afterwards here at our house about 5 pm  We'll do some sort of supper, like lasagna or spaghetti or pizza or 

something simple.  We sent out invites, but you will probably get them mid-week.

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Right--Right?

I should have sent you a copy of what I sent to my President. She read some of it, but not all of it, I think and then emailed me back. If she had read all of it, she would have realized that I told her that it wasn't how long you fast, really, but it was the spirit in which you fast and what you are fasting for. She wrote me back and told me that it didn't really matter how long you fasted, if you were fasting for the right thing in the right way the Lord would accept your fast. We are both right--right? Sometimes, I wish I could be a little more back downish, but I felt like she was attacking my beliefs and she was questioning my upbringing. In fact I labeled the email as "mel's upbringing."

The children are off to school. Howard is going to take Mikaela out to lunch while I go to a funeral at the church. I was just going to take her with and let her play in one of the classrooms, as I didn't think that it would be a really long funeral. Howard doesn't think that I should take her, and volunteered to watch her. I decided that would be a really fun thing for the both of them. They don't get the opportunity to do things together like the other children have had.

It's too bad that you and Dad and Howard and I couldn't take a week off in February. Howard found some really cheap tickets to Ireland for $99 to $124 dollars one way. That would mean that we could go to Ireland for $200/person. Wouldn't that be fun? It would be dang cold though!  I think that we should hold out for some place warm, like Italy.

Siovhan should be getting her Driver's license really soon, but she hasn't taken Driver's Ed. yet. All she has to do is find some time that she can take it, and book the course. She hasn't even made the call. She does still need a lot of practice on parking. She is like I was at that age: no depth perception. Cars hung up on other cars keep coming to my mind. What a hard thing to teach!  I never thought that I would ever get the parallel parking thing down. Now I have to park that way all the time.. It is a good thing that we practiced in that huge boat of a station wagon. It makes it seem easy to park the mini-van.

I love you!  I hope that you are having a good week.
Melanie