First up…news from the Hanken home.

Do you remember that Eli and Emmett were supposed to get tubes in their ears on the 25th?  Well, that didn’t happen.

Both of the boys started throwing up on the evening of the 24th and that canceled tubes for both of them.  UGH.

Well from there, things went worse.  Eli kept throwing up.  Kelli tried getting food and liquids into him but then he wouldn’t take them…or would take them and then throw it all up.

He went to the doctor on Tuesday and was back in the ER on Wednesday.

Poor guy.

He ended up admitted to the hospital on Wednesday for an overnight and will be there again tonight.

They don’t have any obvious reason why he can’t kick this flu bug.  That kind of bothers us all.  We’d love to be able to put a label on it all.

I feel so terrible that I can’t be a help.  Poor Kelli is so far behind on house things and sleep and just life in general.   She’s spent all of her time off of work holding the boys and dealing with them being sick. In our family, we all readily agree that Kelli is the only one in the family that could handle all of this.  She’s a good mom.

I’m so thankful that Kelli’s mother-in-law has been a help…I just wish I could be a help too.

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My Aunt Agnes passed away.  She was one great lady.  Our family was so blessed to have her in our lives.

Aunt Agnes wasn’t the front runner, stand-out front kind of lady.  She was the one in the background managing everything…few of us ever knew all she was doing.

She died a few weeks shy of her 104th birthday.  What a legacy she left.  HERE’s the link to her obituary.  She had three children, 8 grandchildren,17 great-grandchildren…and as the obituary said, “numerous nieces and nephews”.  I am one of those nieces.

I am lucky in that my Aunt Agnes was a crafter and quilter like me.  She is one of the reasons I am so supportive of Lutheran World Relief.  In fact, my memorial money for her will go there.  She helped to make easily thousands of quilts for the organization.  My memorial money will go to the fund to help ship quilts.  I know she’d like that.

She was a master Hardanger too.  She did amazing work.  I just love it.  Here is one of the pieces she gave to me…

I was extra lucky.  Aunt Agnes was also my godmother.  When we were driving home from the funeral the kids and I were talking.  She was 47 when I was born…my dad, her brother just 2 years younger, was 45 when I was born.  My kids just couldn’t believe having a kid so “old”.

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