Memphis Weekend

We took a spontaneous trip to Memphis over the weekend to visit Michael's brother. We didn't get in until Friday night and drove out Sunday afternoon. It was a bit of a whirlwind. We lived the first five years of our marriage in the city. When we left it nearly four years ago, I didn't think we would ever see it again. It was fun to relive memories there. I think the kids thought it intriguing to see the city they were born in. We lived in the heart of midtown with all it's charms and crazyness. We drove by their first home, and took them places we would regularly visit. They got to walk around in those places they could only remember from old pictures and videos. Unfortunately I forgot the camera, and just was able to snap a fuzzy picture with our phone by the Mississippi River for record of the trip.

Even though it was not a trip for pleasure, the kids found joy with nearly every step.

Old Memories:

Outside of our apartment.



Don't you want to sit in that sunroom and write poetry all day?



These are from a video we took when Kynlee was just turning one.
It's a park a block from our old place I used to walk to weekly.
Kynlee's watched the home movie a dozen times. She was really excited
to see the place again in person.





Old Bern dog. We did a lot with Michael's brother while we lived there.
We all had a place together for about a year and a half.

The China Study

If I am like my grandmother, I have cancer in my body already and I will lose the battle before I reach 40. If I am like my mother, I will survive cancer, but it will take several battles over many years, and some things will physically never heal.

For any book reader out there, I'd like an opinion. This book was recommended to me. I am glad I took the time, it's well worth the read- worth a checkout from the library, a borrow from me, or the ten dollars it will cost to buy one new. It took me about twenty pages to get into it, but now I am glad to feel like I am not just a walking time bomb. There's significantly more I can do to help. I thought I'd throw this out there since we all face scary medical issues in the unknown future, and since we all know people who have or are currently going through some major health issue. It's not just another nutrition book. Dr hubby is right there with me on this one. For those in the LDS faith, the study seems to go right along with section 89, and made me see wording in that section I had never noticed before. I think as a whole our church culture has not noticed this wording either, at least the culture in this country.

If you do read it, let me know your thoughts!