I had a hard time sleeping last night. Maybe it's because I rested so much on Sunday. My fever has gone down again, but I still have a sore throat and I feel like my bloated abdomen presses on my stomach. This morning I have had several visitors already. Peggy and Janice are my visiting teachers from church. Jenn, my sister-in-law, has already changed my bedding and started my laundry. A photographer from the Daily Herald is here taking photos. She will be following my story for breast cancer awareness month in October. I already got a response from the wish list I posted last night - a new book to read! Even though I get frustrated at being stuck at home, a friend is always willing to help me, like this morning when Nathan had a hole in his pants. She brought him home and I had to mend them.
I want to be awake and around when the boys get home from school at 3:00 PM. I don't know why, but that always seems to be the time my body is calling for a nap. That's why it was helpful to have my parents there after school, to make sure the boys got started on their homework and chores.
David wants to drive up to see the fall colors in AF canyon if I feel up to it tonight. It always depends on how I feel...
Emilee
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Hi Emilee,
I can relate to your words about having to "learn to rely on others and allow them to give service and comfort." That's an important lesson to learn.
I can also relate to your craving for European chocolate, being on the prowl for some myself practically every time I'm in a store!
It's great that your parents were able to be with you, and that they are planning on returning.
You are a lovely person.
Ulrike
Hey Emilee,
Hopefully you'll be able to enjoy some fall colors. We don't really get them down here in California. It's still way too hot down here in my opinion. I'm ready for some fall.
I wish I was closer to fufill some with list items. I'm thinking the chocolate would melt by the time it got to you...
so I'll keep commenting on your blog for now.
Hope you have a good evening!
Christine
What? You think it was nice to have your "strict" father there to help oversee your boys as they came home from school? I guess you really didn't say that because we all know that it was the sweetness of your mother that brought happiness to your boys.
Nevertheless, we thought you might be happy to have us out of your hair for awhile, but it is super kind of you to speak of us in such sweet tones. We have always known that the Lord sent us one of HIS very best to live in our home and to be our daughter too. We have thanked him on bended knee every single day for allowing us to have YOU!
Keep hanging in there!
Love ya! Dad
Hi Emilee, glad you are feeling well today, was happy to log on and see all your postings. Wish I was closer to take you out to one of the yummy restaurants you listed! If you do get a chance for a DVD, one of my favorites that I have watched recently is "Dan in Real Life".
All my love to you and your family. Kath
O, I hope you are able to go see the fall colors! What a romantic and wonderful treat. Not much change her in Stockton yet!
I am working on a surprise for you. I know you will love it! I hope it all comes together in a very special and inspired way.
I am having sympathy cravings for chocolate with you! Chocolate makes everything just a little more bearable. I have found another rare delight you will never believe...honey makes a fabulous massage.
I don't know if you can tolerate being touched right now, but honey, on dry skin, with just a few drops of water will give you the best foot massage EVER given you have the right person offering the massage :) So, if you are up to a fabulous massage, and I'm sure you remember my sister in law Kiyono who used to live there in Highland...I can fix you up with a perfect treat while the boys are gone to school and your mind is racing. Honey is wonderful for your skin too!
Anyway, that's not the surprise :) you will just have to wait and see!
I am just so happy to hear you are enjoying some good things in spite of all the hard stuff right now. I pray that every day brings you some joy. I pray that you enjoy some special times with your husband and boys, because your joy will bring them peace like nothing else.
Your wish list reminds me of the feast on "The Little Princess" where the girls were sent to bed hungry with no food and they laid there and talked about every wonderful thing they could dream up, and when they woke up in the morning, they were surrounded with their greatest desires :)
Hang in there dear friend!
LUV
Have you checked your email for the things I've sent you?
Love you FOREVER! BKD
Hi Emilee,
I'm a friend of your mother's from way back at W&J Sloane. She sat at the guest book at my wedding and I've known your grandparents. I would have to say I see the same positive approach to life from you that I always admired in them.
I remember the one thing that got me through some very difficult times was the word "through".. meaning there is movement and that in one way or another the trial will pass. I can tell you appreciate the many good things that come from your illness..the most important of which is the love and sweetness it draws from those surrounding you. You are in our prayers and are on the temple roll whenever we go. Tomorrow night it will go on again. Much love to you.
Hi Emilee, I actually tried to post a comment a couple of weeks ago and it asked me what my gmail password was and I couldn't rememeber it for the life of me. Your dad said you like humor so picture me for 20 min trying every variation of every password that I could possibly remember or have written in my log books and....well, suffice it to say none of them worked and I gave up trying to post. I really only use one email address and that is why I don't ever use that gmail account.
I think you remember me from our Baer reunion. I am so glad that you played the piano as I felt your spirit strongly in what you played. In that spirit, I share something very personal which is in my Patriarchal Blessing. I know this is a blog, yet it is just a snippet so I don't feel it will be inappropriate to share, particularly in this case. In my blessing I was blessed with the gift of faith. As we know it is a real gift to some and yet for others they need to work hard to develop this gift. As part of this gift I was told, "you will see in your lifetime the sick raised to strength through your faith". Now mind you, my faith alone is really no more special than yours, or David's or the rest of your friends and family's. But I share this with you to testify that faith is a the most powerful force next to the priesthood of Christ in the universe. Faith can move mountains, stop rivers and even stop the earth itself. It was the principle power that created this earth and by which we all agreed to come here, because of our faith in our Father's plan.
I testify to you that I have seen many raised to strength in my short 50 years because of this principle of faith. For example, a nephew of mine who miraculously lives today, following a terrible accident 9 mos after getting married. Even though he has limited brain capacity and some physical limitations he is now a father and is a blessing to his family. I also have a dear friend who has/had cancer. Michele and I did a benefit concert for him 7 years ago to raise money for his medical expenses. He has been in complete remission now for 6 years and saw his two sons go and return from missions and get married. It is a miracle of faith, that of many of his family and friends. I could go on and on about the experiences and people but suffice it to say, that I have complete faith that you can be healed like these according to our Father's will. This is and should be all of our prayers. I have experienced blessing several people who passed away and was frustrated by this, yet I learned Joseph Smith affirmed that we should bless people unto life and have faith that such a blessing will be honored, except that it is not the Lord's will. In this spirit I will lend my faith along with the many others who are doing the same for you, that your trial will be "but a moment" and that you will return to health and strength to enjoy the pleasures and challenges of nurturing and raising your sweet family.
This is and will be my constant prayer for you. I am sure your Grandpa Leon and Grandma Kay Baer are looking down on you and praying and pulling for you as well.
Thanks for your example to the rest of us who have different challenges to face, you help inspire us to face them with courage and a smile.
God Bless, your extended cousin...
Sterling Baer
Emilee. It was so good to see you at Chum's open house here in CA. I'm sorry I couldn't get to your place while I was there in SLC with Jenny and the baby. I would have liked to stay longer and done a couple of things but Don and Todd wanted me back home. I hope you got to see the fall colors in the canyons there in Utah. I did get a chance to see them on my last day in Utah last week. We flew through Hobble Creek Canyon and then over Strawberry and over to Nephi area to see my parents and back to Provo. I have never seen such beautiful colors in the canyons. I hope you are having a good day. Hang in there. Love Aunt Sally
Howdeeeee Emilee Dolberg Ellis
You don't know meeee and I didn't know youuuu, until I received your bloggggg from your Glen & Bonnie. I know your parents live in Stockton, but I'm not sure where you and your family live?
My name is Paul Sorenson and last year I saw your mother's name on Classmates.com and exchanged a short message with Bonnie and then Glen & Bonnie and I exchanged Christmas cards. I used to live in the S. F. Bay Area until 2000 when I retired and moved to the small rural town of Iola, in South East Kansas. Iola's not very big, but we have three stoplights.
I knew your grandparents and Bonnie and Robert growing up and I used to dance with Bonnie on Saturday nights in the 1950's.
You look like your mother and appear to have the same delightful smile. You probably even giggle the same way.
Emilee, may I have this dance? Take my hand and I'll lead you in a 2 step and we'll play some country music (Tulsa), thats got a really lively beat to it and we'll really get are feet to moving. Lets dance across the Golden Gate Bridge up into the Sierra Nevada mountains, cross the Salt Flats and then 2 step into Utah, then we'll watch the altimeter rise again as we go back over the mountains of Colorado, we'll dance all the way up Pikes Peak, the roads not very wide so hold on tight, watch out for those clouds, wow they were really cold and now we'll do a little hang gliding down on our way to the flat lands of eastern Colorado where we'll 2 step across the Tall Grass Prairie of Kansas, down past my house, then we'll 2 step over to Joplin, down by Tulsa, over to Branson, Mo.,hang on were turning south to Little Rock, then back west 2 steppin through Dallas, Amarillo, Albuquerque, don't stop yet here comes Phoenix, then San Diego, San Bernardino, oops the records almost coming to and end, here comes Fresno, Sacramento and I'll twirle you a few times and here we are in Stockton. Whew I'm about worn-out, your a heck of a good dancer. Lets pick up your family and we'll all go out for a double dip ice cream cone. Ok we'll dip yours in chocolate.
Thanks for the dance Emilee and put my name on your dance card for next weekend.
Your dance partner from the Tall Grass Prairie of Kansas
Paul Sorenson
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