5 Sisters and 1 Brother

Family!

Five sisters... 

and one brother.

Next time we are all in the same country at the same time,

lets get a photo together.

Someone is always missing!

Kallan the spunk...and wishes granted!

I borrowed the following picture from the Maitland Mercury. My neice and nephew - all have been brave through a very difficult time and Mum, Dad and kids get to go celebrate the success of a difficult journey. Click here to read the story.

And here is a story of him in another paper during the stuggle.

www.kallanjamesegar.blogspot.com

Have fun! Wish I was coming too!

Me, a husband, two nieces and no frypan...

Two lovely nieces stayed for a couple of days.

We decided to go to the beach for a BBQ.

But first,

We checked out surfboards for Ronnie.

And the girls checked out flippers.

Then we discovered we (and by we I mean Ronnie)

forgot to bring a pan.

We had planned on cooking sausages over a camp burner,

But needed the pan to make it all work.

Plans changed and we went to Grill'd instead

Then...

Off to the beach.

Ronnie tried out his new board.

The girls played.

And I relaxed.

Ahhhh...summer.

Thank you...

Before I update on the happenings of the last couple of weeks (our USA holiday). I want to post a thank you to those who have offered their love and support to Ronnie and me over the last 18 months and particularily the last few weeks. It has come from many sources - family, friends and those who experienced similar things on one of my favourite sites bubhub.com.au. My "forum friends" as Ronnie and refer to them are not known in person but have offered an understand that gives such comfort as many have experienced similar longings and disappointments.

Your support, comfort and encouragement has meant so much. It lessens the hurt and disappointment we feel and provides us with the strength to give it another go. I am scared (terrified even) that it may all happen again but I want to have a family with Ronnie. Visiting with my sister Kathryn and her husbnad and their two small children reminds of how demanding small children are, how your needs are secondary to that of a childs, sleep can be elusive and the cleaning never ends. Children also come with love, fun and laughter - we want the good and are prepared to take on the demands too. So we will try again...when I am ready!

Much love to you all.
Annette and Ronnie

Shaylie!

I love this little girl.

She is very brave,

funny,

kind,

and ever so cute.

This Weekend and Medical Miracles.

This weekend I was on Aunty duties.

Friday night Kallan and Shay stayed over.

(Aiden stayed over Saturday night).

Kallan has just had his arm checked.

The abscess doesn't look good but...

Finally the Dr. has been able to grow a culture.

Looks like some more surgery to clean it out.

Hopefully, it is not to close to the prosthetic,

Or it might have to be removed temporarily.

Not fun...but he is here!

We are grateful for miracles of medical science.

Kallan asked how my embryos are going.

I explained...

A tiny little embryo, a potential for life, is frozen.

They will thaw it out and transfer into my uterus,

And we pray that once frozen embryo will grow into a baby.

How amazing is that whole concept!!!!

We are grateful for miracles of medical science.

Simple days...Simply joy!

Don't you wish you were a kid sometimes...

Things seemed a little simpler then.

Maybe I need to learn from

Chelsea and Shaylie...

And find joy in the simple things.

The King of the Castle!

I was thinking about my sister today.

Her husband graduated this past weekend.

I'll steal a photo from her blog and show you.

Congratulations Cory!!!!

This led me to thinking about the King of the Castle.

Others know him as Cade.

I have lots of fun with Cade.

We fight over who is the King of the Castle,

We play hide and seek,

And we wrestle.

I don't get to see Cade often,

His castle is in Wyoming, USA.

I miss him today.

(Last USA visit, May 2009)

07 Feb - We Became a Family Today.

I suppose every bride says their wedding was beautiful.

Mine was for me, for us!

It was everything we wanted,

Family, friends and fun in a relaxed atmosphere.

We did have some speeches planned.

There were also some spontaneous ones.

One nephew shared his observations,

And my neice shared her creativity.

Here is the speech delivered by that creative neice.

Netty, Netty, Netty,

She likes spaghetti.

Netty, Netty, Netty,

Can't have spaghetti.

Netty, Netty, Netty,

I love you

Especially when you laugh at your poo!

Netty, Netty, Netty,

You look so pretty.

Just so you know, I don't think I have ever laughed at my poo. I did laugh at the poem though!!!!

Thanks for inspiring the creativity Aims. A little plagarism maybe!!!