Mama's Diaries

A family member put up a website for Alex this weekend and will be posting updates regularly.?? I won’t repost the surgery update from yesterday since the full details have already been posted on the new site.?? To follow Alex’s progress, please visit http://alexheide.tripod.com/index.html ?? Thank you for praying for Alex!

Our family needs your prayers… Last Wednesday night,??Jim’s 20 year old cousin, Alex, was snowboarding in Pennsylvania and broke his neck.?? He has bust fractures of the C5, C6, and part of??the C7 vertebrae.?? He is currently in a Pittsburgh??University hospital and is paralyzed basically from the chest down.????He had surgery on Thursday and they…

Before I start this post…I have no clue how to fix the strange font issues I am having on these postings.?? I need Jim’s help.?? Ignore it for now and maybe my sweet honey can fix this for me soon. ********* This week I found myself in a quandry.?? I needed to make a decision…

This was forwarded to me today and I couldn’t resist it :)?? ! One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with…

Jim had all week off work.?? It was too rainy to go jeeping like we wanted plus the kids have been sick so we mostly just relaxed.?? Tanner finally broke his fever on Wed.?? Good grief that was a long high fever – it went 7 full days.?? Ty now has a really junky cough…