The end of the year

Well, it's almost 2007, can you believe it? A lot has happened this year, so I'll highlight a few things. All my kids celebrated another birthday and grew even bigger and in September they all were in school full time. Marvin and I celebrated 11 years of marriage and I am more in love with him than ever before. We spent another year without Marvin's parents and we miss them being in our lives and them seeing their grandchildren grow up. We said good-bye to Ken and Robin and the children as they moved to Tennessee to start a new life down south and we celebrated with Ken as he graduated with a degree in education. We are so proud!! It has been a healthy year for us and especially me as I have lost 41 pounds and still am trying to lose more. That has been awesome because I have more energy and can do a lot more activity with the kids.
We have had some sad times as well. In December, my cousin Kim died tragically at the age of 31. It was a sad time for her family as it happened so close to Christmas. Matthew's hamster also died tragically at the hands, or should I say mouth of our dog, Buster. He is now laid to rest in the backyard. (The hamster, not Buster).
I think that is all, I probably forgot important things but it is 12 am and I'm getting tired. So, I will go for now but will post my 2007 resolutions another day.

A terrible tragedy

A tragedy has happened to my family today. My cousin, Kim, who is 31 years old and the mother of 3 year old twin boys is on life support this very hour. The accident happened yesterday as she was getting ready to start her day. She made a bath for her boys and as she got it ready,she continued to get herself ready and was blow drying her hair. She apparently had her head upside down and when she flipped back over she hit her head on the sink which knocked her out and she fell backwards into the tub, where she drowned. Her husband was in the basement and he heard a thud. He just thought it was the boys and went back to what he was doing. 5-6 minutes passed and he thought it was strange that the blow dryer was still going so he went upstairs to see her and he found her in the tub. He pulled her out and she was blue and had no pulse or heartbeat. He started CPR and called for help.
At this hour we are hoping for a Christmas miracle. She shows no signs of life. She is on every machine possible and is in a coma. Her brain is swollen because of lack of oxygen. The doctors have already prepared the family but her husband is in shock and is not ready to make the decision to take her off life support. He is only 30. how can you blame him? Can you imagine being a widow @ 30? I still can't believe this is happening.
She is a oncology nurse at Oak wood and devoted her life to helping people with cancer, because her mother died of cancer in 1993. She was to graduate this Sunday from Eastern with a bachelors in nursing, with a 3.9 GPA. How sad is that? She was so happy to get it and now she won't walk across the stage to receive something she worked so hard for. Her husband will do it in her honor.
We never know what will happen in our lives. That is why we must live each day to the fullest and love each other and our families and hold them close. I have many good memories of Kim. We shared a bond that was special because we are cousins and we each had twins. Her boys, Brett and Dylan, will grow up without a mother now but with a father that loves them very much and a family that will see a part of Kim when they look at them. Her legacy will live through them.
Good-bye Kim, I'll never forget you.

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