I need Help!!!

I'm a self proclaimed idiot when it comes to computers! I've come a long way in the past few years. Since I've been working in an office. That has helped. But I'm lacking some basic Bloggy Knowledge! I need to find out how to make a header without Photo shop. Is it even possible? I haven't gotten to a point where I want to plunk down all that cash for some software. So I'm trying to limp along without it. So if there is anyone out there who can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I want to make a farming theme on my blog. I need to change it up a bit. But I want it to be original. And I really want to do it myself if that's possible? So please leave me info. I know I really need to just spend the money on photo shop but I'm not to that point just yet. Please HELP ME!!!!!!

100 posts!!!!

I'm happy to tell you all that I hit 100 posts today!! And I get to share some great news that my Mama In law is doing wonderful! Thank you all for praying for her! Considering what she has just been through and the size of the tumor that got removed (the size of an orange or roughly 3in around.) She has been such a trooper! She was smiling last night and we had her laughing too!! She is beginning to get some color back in her cheeks! So that is awesome news in my book!! Mr. Farmer is actually starting to sleep through the night again. He hasn't slept good in over 2 weeks. She still has a long road ahead of her. She has cancer on the lymph nodes around her liver which is inoperable but it can be treated with chemo. But she can't start treatments for that until she heals from this surgery. So I'm going to ask you all again for your prayers for my Mama in Law. She needs to heal quickly and the cancer needs to not grow anymore! And then we can start treatments in another month or so.

I'm so glad that this was my 100th post!!! I never in a million years would have thought that my 100th post would have been about my Mama in Law having surgery to remove cancer. I'm amazed at how this blog has evolved. I'm proud of it! I see this blog as some what of an infant. My baby. My Cyber baby. I'm glad I could share all of this with you. Thank you all for reading!!!

Surgery

The Blue Star of Hope


Tomorrow is Mama Farmer's Surgery. This is the surgery they told us she wouldn't be able to have because her tumor was too large... well she showed them!! Mama Farmer's tumor has shrunk tremendously! The doctors are all amazed at how much this tumor has changed in the last 4 months. It really doesn't seem possible that we have made the 4 month mark. They weren't giving us a whole lot of hope 4 months ago and now we have her tucked away in her little room in the hospital drinking liquids and being pumped up with IV's for her big day!!

I can't say we aren't worried. We are very concerned about her. My mother in law has lost nearly 65 pounds since September. (That is when she began to feel bad. But it wasn't until nearly the end of October that we got her talked into seeing a doctor.) So she is quite frail looking now. She has been doing Chemo every other week and of course Chemo isn't a walk in the park. She isn't doing cart wheels down the halls about having surgery. But I can say that she is looking forward to not hurting and cramping all day long. I hate seeing her in pain and not being able to help her. I want so bad to help her but all I can do is talk to her to try and focus her thoughts elsewhere. Yesterday afternoon we got the house ready for her being gone for the next week to 10 days. She isn't happy about that but I did have her laughing about the fact that she will get a whole week of quite, peaceful nights of sleep away from Papa Farmer... She had to laugh at that. She said she isn't sure she will be able to sleep without someone farting and snoring in the room... :) So I told her I will sneak up to her room one night and snore for her! I'm not to sure about the farting though!
So please pray for Mama Farmer tomorrow Bloggy land!!! She will be heading into Surgery at 2:00pm est time. So if you all aren't too busy think of my awesome Mama in law please!! And lift her up in your prayers. Thank you all!

Thank you all for your kind words about my Aunt. She is in a better place. She is with her wonderful husband. She lost him at a young age. Her children were still in school and she had to take on so much resposibility. The poor little dear never felt sorry for her self though. She is such an inspration.

I can remember going to her house when I was little and seeing my uncle's things still in the medicine cabinet. He had one of those old silver razors from the 50's. I distincly remember the razor. Uncle Bill had been gone over 20 years by the time I was born but she still had his things. That wouldn't ever change. But now she has him!

It was wonderful reminising about the old days and all the good memories. The church ladies had all been very close to My aunt. They cooked all of her favorite dishes. and the ones she was famous for. It was a beautiful day. We laughed and cried and giggled and then cried some more. We had family in from all 4 corners of the country. And we stayed up till the wee hours of the morning remembering Her. It was just the way she would have wanted it.

Snowfull Saturday

This morning my Hubster and I woke up to a beautiful blanket of snow. I love how our farm looks so peaceful in the snow. But Hubby and I won't be able to curl up on the couch and watch it snow today. My great Aunt died this past week and today is the funeral. She lived a very long and happy life. And she died peacefully. Today's funeral will be more about celebrating her life then mourning her death. She hasn't been living here in Southern Indiana for a couple years. But I'm so glad she is able to be brought home on such a pretty day. I will be singing her favorite hymn in her country church that she was a member of for over 64 years. I hope I do it justice! The church is just about the sweets little country church in the area. It might have 20 pews. I love the feel of it and how it sits all alone on the prairie. My Aunt will be sorely missed in this community but she is at peace. She had lost her husband almost 40 years ago and was left to raise her children and work a farm on her own. She did it and she did it well!! I drive past her farm on my way home every night and I pray I can be as strong as she is.