Tomorrow afternoon we're heading out to Santa Cruz (Scott's Valley to be exact) for a nice couple days of rest and relaxation. If you recall, last year I went away to Petaluma with Jordan, Roberta, and her daughter Tanya for Camp Challenge 2010. The company that puts this together each year is called Me-One Foundation and the idea behind the name is for you to relate it to a score of Me-One, Cancer-Zero. This cancer camp is not only for the cancer patient, but for their care givers as well. Since I was invited, I got to bring up to five of my family and friends to join me. Unfortunately, Roberta and Tanya couldn't make it this year, however, I was happy that John could. It would be complete if Johnny were joining us, but he has to work, and I promised him that I wouldn't make a HUGE deal about it, making him feel guilty. Apparently, I do that from time to time :( and I don't mean to. I wasn't sure if we were going to be invited this year or not because apparently they wanted to get "new" people to come, but at the last minute they called and said that we were in as one of the returning families. Yeah! This camp is completely paid for, has many fun activities (including face painting, zip-lining, rock climbing, archery, arts & crafts, tie dying, etc.), along with a fun spa day (which includes facials, massages, pedicures, manicures, etc.). Besides all of that, the food is incredible. What I'm looking forward to most, is the night where we all take our flashlights and join around the camp fire to tell our "stories" about how and why we got there. It gets to be a bit teary eyed, but it's a wonderful experience to say the least. I'm so happy that this year I get to spend this time with John and Jordan, it means so much to me. Although I'm not supposed to make him feel bad, I still wish Johnny would be joining us :( Since it's uncertain as to whether or not this will be our last year, I hope to make the best of it and thoroughly enjoy ourselves. I'm also happy that John is technically on vacation for a few days and can actually relax...YAHOO!!
Oh, and another thing I need to share is that Jordan is officially going to a new school called Choices and she is doing Independent Study. She just started this past Tuesday, so she's still getting used to it, but so far so good. She goes Monday through Wednesday for a couple hours to get her work and turn in the previous week's homework. She can obviously contact her teachers at anytime via email or phone call, and likes the fact that she'll be working at her own pace. The counselor was a bit perplexed when she saw that Jordan had straight A's and was being transferred to Choices because usually that's not the case. We explained Jordan's situation being that she wasn't comfortable where she was at and that since they wouldn't allow us to do an inter-district transfer to the school of our choice, we felt that this was our only alternative. They also took into consideration that my diagnosis made things a bit more difficult with transportation and all. Being that she'll be going M-W, John and Johnny can take and pick her up without a problem at all. I think things are going to work out just fine.
Peace to you all ~ Love, Genie
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Hope you had a great time! Sorry we missed it! Love you!
ReplyDeleteIt looked like you had a good time. Did you? Hope that your arms feel good enough to type. Love you and think about you every day.
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