Tea at the Ford house- Dinner at the Hull House

Blue Ribbons for Moriah



Josie and Piggy having tea at the Ford house



Hi All - We had a nice, cool Sunday. After church, Josie and I went to the Edsel and Eleanore Ford house on the lake. Unfortunately, they were booked for the house tour so we had lunch in the tea room. It was a fun treat to be there. We will definitely go back for the tour.

After lunch, Josie decided we needed to make Piggy (her stuffed animal that goes everywhere with us)a Halloween costume. Off to JoAnn's for the much needed supplies. We came back and assembled the princess costume. She looks quite cute and with the help of iron on Velcro her costume will stay together!

We did some more cane walking with Lilly and Rita (her new names for her Left and Right canes). I have to say this naming the canes thing is really working. She walked so well with them today. She went across the kitchen with them. You can't believe how painstakingly slow it is to accomplish each task. It is remarkable that she is even able to do it at all. We will get there.

The picture of Josie with the blue ribbons on her hands and canes are for Moriah Nelson. This is our sweet little friend who has been through sooo much in her 20 months of life and keeps fighting and pulling out miracles right and left. She is doing really well right now. People are wearing blue ribbons for her and Josie wanted to send her a picture and video. I have attached the video at the end. It is hard to stand with canes and try to think of a video message at the same time. This was good practice. We love you Moriah. Keep going strong Girl!! You can see the Nelsons and Moriah's amazing journey at www.momentswithmoriah.blogspot.com.

Tonight we had a fabulous french dinner prepared by Julia Childs, or at least the recipe by Julia Childs but Jeanie Hull might as well be. We are so lucky to get to go to their house for dinner. It is fun to be with Jeanie and Roger and Jeanie is such a good cook. I need to take lessons.

I am looking forward to starting this week. I hope and pray it is a successful one. We only have 6 more weeks left of this session. Even though that sounds like a lot it is not. We need to make every minute count. I will work more with her at home so we can hopefully achieve the goals set for this session.

Please keep Teresa in your prayers tomorrow. They are going to try again to take her into surgery and put the shunts back in. They think they have figured out the coagulation problem. There was talk about needed to give her a transfusion do to some anemia she is having but they were pumping her with vitamin K first. She has been in the hospital a month and really needs to get out. She is so bored and depressed that she won't smile or "talk" at all. My best to you all on this Sunday night. Love, Jenny and Josie