August 28th

How the summer flew by!!! I was looking at some of our pictures from this summer and smiled because I remembered before summer started being worried it would be the worst summer ever. But the pictures showed the opposite. Even though Seth had chemo we were still able to do a few family vacations and have fun as a family. I view our summer as different but good. God is so amazing! School starts on Monday and I have peace about sending my kids. Not only is Seth starting school again, our daughter Sarah is going to be in the Middle School for the first time, our other son Shane is entering 9th grade at the High School and our youngest Laura is going into 2nd grade. Lots of changes but change is good. Our school district has been so wonderful to work with. They basically do what we request, what a blessing it is to have the support of the school district. I can not say enough about how good they have been to us! Seth is starting half days of school on Monday and probably continue that through Thanksgiving. The district was able to change his schedule so that he could receive all of his core subjects in the morning. We were at the pool the other day and a friend he knew from school came up to him and was so glad to see Seth. The friend asked if he was planning on going back to school, Seth said yes and the boy gave Seth a high-five and shouted "alright man!" Little things like that are some of the ways God shows us his faithfulness. I was concerned about how the other kids would treat Seth but God always lets us know He is taking care of our worries. Seth's legs are continuing to get stronger and his walking is slowing showing signs of normality. On Monday Seth will be getting his routine blood work done to see where his counts are at. You can continue to pray for good results. Most of his counts were on the lower end when he got the last dose of chemo so hopefully they do not drop too much.