thank you so much to all of you who genuinely care and say so. you are all more hope and light in our lives than you realize.

sorry to be so dire all the time lately.

we really do have so much to be thankful for. i try to always count the blessings and usually when i do i see how far the scale is tilted.

on a light note... easter was fun. all the family together. mounds of delicious food. new baby cousin to meet. easter egg hunts. emerson's funniest moment of the weekend was after the eater egg hunt when he was opening all his plastic eggs to check out the loot and in one was a dollar bill. i said, "emerson! do you know what that is?" he looked at me like i was crazy and said with complete clarity and leisure... "cash."