Help :(

We have been blessed this whole summer with friends and family willing to help us out with Michael's cancer diagnosis.  I think my friends are starting to get annoyed with me that I will not give them assigned tasks to help us out :) But we are okay physically, kinda okay emotionally but where we really need help is Financially....as much as  I hate to do this (it is a big cut to my pride) we have set up a paypal account for people to make donations. (look on the right side of the page)

The medical bills for cancer treatment are ridiculously expensive, even when you have an "easy" course of treatment.  But enough about money talk cause that just stresses me out  :)

We had a nice chill Thanksgiving, it was awesome.  Michael, Aidan and I all stayed home and had a turkey dinner complete with pumpkin pie for dessert.  No family type drama, no driving 30 miles to do go anywhere, just a nice day at home eating and watching movies.

Update on Michael:
Michael is doing well we just finished the last chemo round last week :) his appetite is slowly returning.  He is still tired and will be for quite some time.  The biggest issue he's having is tinnitus (ringing of the ears) is is pretty bad some days, it's hard to tell a energetic 7 year old boy that he has to be quite around dad.  We do not know if the ringing will go away or not , we are hoping and praying that it does.  Michael is teaching jiu jitsu at  Combat Fitness and that keeps his spirits up.  I'm working alot and Aidan is thriving at school and home :)

Hopefully Michael will do a blog post this week

Kat ;)

This is hard...

I don't really know how to explain what I'm feeling right now. Basically this situation our life is in right now is hard, I'm finding that the easiest way for me to deal with it is to be antisocial.  I'm so tired both emotionally, physically and mentally that being social is in no way appealing right now :(  I know that that sounds all sorts of depressing but it is the truth.  I find that when I talk to my friends it centers around Michael's cancer and our situation and I just feel like I'm always worrying  complaining or blubbering.  I already have to be cheerful for work 40 hours a week, so basically I just need a  break from people. . . Most of my good friends know that I occasionally go into a state of antisocial-ness and unfortunately it is happening for a bit  longer than normal.  For that I apologize, I swear I am okay.  I swear I am not inactive from church haha ;) I swear I'm not mad at you. . . I'll hopefully be back to myself soon.

Soooooo now that the depressing bit is out of the way. . .I just want to thank EVERYONE  Family, friends and even strangers for your love and support during this time in our life.  It's been crazy, but with our large group of friends to lean on it has made our life so much easier.  Thank you for joking with us, thank you for the food, the prayers, and love.  We are so grateful for everything we have in our lives right now and a big part of that is our friends :) so thank you!!

Love you all
Kat

Life is still crazy busy in the Ransom household. . . With chemo, a 7 year old, and full time work it feels like thing aren't going to slow down anytime soon :) but hopefully all will be well Michael has 1 more month of chemo and hopefully we will be in the clear.

It's not been a fun the last couple of months it's starting to get harder and harder to stay positive.  But I'm trying to get my brain to shut up and not think of all the "stress" type of stuff.  I think the main factor of the stress is just medical and other bills piling up, I know things will work out and I just need to have faith that they will and quit worrying.

We were all excited for Halloween yesterday but Aidan woke up with a fever and started puking :( it was ridiculous He was trying to convince me that he was okay because he didn't want to miss school and the Halloween party.  And right in the middle of his convincing me he was "fine" he started puking.  Needless to say Aidan stayed home from school , I went to work and prayed that he wouldn't get Michael sick.  So far Michael is fine :)

So after working 6 days in a row I finally have a day off and I'm home taking care of the sick Ransom boys :)  I'm just glad I get to spend some time with them.

Some friends have been asking for some websites I use so here they are...
Paleo Diet lifestyle I know some of you  guys think this is extreme but it's awesome you'll feel so much better and lose weight.   I went from a size 14 to a size 9 just with this diet imagine if I actually exercised ;)

Etsy - Michelle Verbeeck Leather medic alert bracelets

Sound hound app for android

Cozi Family organizer app for android This has everyone in the family's schedule in one place love it!! I have it on my phone and Michael has is on his Kindle fire and it links both our schedules so we know what is going on

Wendy's lookbook If I was a tad skinnier and had money I would dress like this girl with some tomboyish changes, she is so cute

Josie Charlwood- youtube page Michael found this girl and we LOVE her!! Her vocals are gorgeous and I dig singers who actually play instruments :)