What a blessing it was to meet you last night !! I want you to know that it was a wonderful experience for us to share our stories. You are one of the bravest woman I have ever met. It is so exciting to see how God is working in your life thru others AMEN HUH?! You remember we are only a phone call away if you ever need a shoulder to lean on.

Love in Christ, Laurie & Matt Sriver

Secondly, I wanted all to know that I have changed the link address to the site I am using to sell items in eBay auctions this month to help Teresa and Dan. I figured if only it be enough to help with gas money to get back and forth to the hospital, every little bit makes a big difference to them. Last weeks profits I made I am using to find them a used washer and dryer they need. I have quite a bit of stuff to list yet, and I didn’t do to good this week getting much listed. It is time consuming. I am working at organizing a process, getting all the pictures and descriptions together so when I stay at Teresa and Dans house, I will be able to work it at their home on my laptop. The eBay listing process takes time, and organizing it is importance in order to be successful doing it without getting bad feedback! Ack! A eBay sellers worst nightmare! Point being, If your looking Online to buy for Christmas, please, please don’t forget to check my eBay auctions out to see what I am selling… I do plan to get going on listing much more soon! Today, if not tomorrow. The new site link is http://shopinpjz.phanfare.com/ and my eBay user name is shopinpjz.

I had Dan and Teresa’s kids this weekend and it was great! I really missed being able to see them grow up. On the positive side of them coming back home again is getting the chance for us to get to know each other! We had fun! I gave each of them a project to paint something that they could give to their mom as a present for when she got home from the hospital. They couldn’t wait to give it to her, and each of them held it in their laps on their ride home last night in their anticipation of her getting their gift they had made for her. It was great! Reminding me giving something of yourself is a natural instinct of love that God has gifted us to enjoy, as much if not more then receiving. I guess it has been too long since my three were little. My youngest being 25 now. Ghezz… How time goes by quick. Right before we got there though they start fussing with each other and I had to raise my voice to them for the first time. It’s like riding a bike, remembering that motherly instinctive reaction to siblings arguing with one another over something of little significance. It was one of those moments when riding in a vehicle, boring as it is, when an argument breaks out and everyone starts wishing that we were there already. I think I said something like this; “ Hey! I know how to yell too, if you’d like to hear me, just keep it up!” LOL, That’s when the old mother instinct kicked in for me. Next thing I said was something I would always say to my boys that worked most of the time. I call it the poor pity me psychology. “ We’ve had such a great weekend together you guys, lets not ruin it by fighting with each other now that it is almost over… They were good the rest of the thankfully five minutes left to get there. I couldn’t help though to give thought to that 7 day trip Dan and Teresa had just taken across country only a few weeks earlier. Especially under the conditions that existed for them. Funny how life can change. When Once upon a time others would have those same feelings of empathy for me, back when I was raising my three boys who fought constantly. Here I was now having similar feelings of sympathy for my sister and brother-in-law, more then fifteen years later. The interesting part is knowing then about those who would express feeling of sorrow for what I was experiencing at the same time, I would be thinking, Its not that bad, or that hard to live with. Again, an example of God gifting us with a type of love that comes with hard work and a touch of testimonial patience. It’s called family, and we all need that experience in life to learn how to love unconditionally. Maybe that is one to be thankful for that we don’t think about at the time that it’s happening! ~PJ

Hey Mommy,

I miss you and the family terribly, but it is so nice to hear of all the help you are getting in Florida. The house sounds wonderful. I am sad that I could not experience walking through the front door with all of you, but I know that it would have been amazing. We really do have an awesome family down there, and while your family up here will be missing you, we know what’s best.

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has helped my family. You have no idea how much even the smallest thing can mean. But not only are small things happening, but bigger things than we could have even hoped for are now happening before our eyes. Each person who has even said a kind word of hope to my mother or father truely is an Angel.

It’s amazing how these things can really open your eyes to the kindest of people around you. Not only that, but the kindest of strangers and acquaintances that you that would never care the way they do.

Again, thank you.

Love,
Kelli

I never thought that I would get hooked on a daytime soap opera show. I have to confess. I watch all day to see if it’s on. The suspense, the comedy, the story. Yes, I’m talking about
” As the RV Wheels Turn!” Will Dan give in and let Brandi drive part of the way? Will Robbie sneak a baby gator on to Clyde before they reach their destination. I can’t wait, I can’t stand it. I have to know what happens next. ………… I guess I could just call.
You should be able to hear your cheering section, pretty soon, as you approach your new home. We love you and we’re cheering from here. Peace be with you!!!
Love to you and your little darlings,
Greg & Lori

OK Guys… Although things have been going a wee bit on the “ruff” side, we must all stay focused and as positive as we possibly can. Treese… I will post my trip from Alaska last year, to show people that RV’ing really can be as bad as you are telling people it can be. And… we had one of the most expensive Fifth Wheels money can buy ~unlike Clyde, the beast of bolts. The wheel STILL fell off in the YUKON. We still clipped a bridge in downtown Chicago at 1am and tore our roof right off. yada yada yada.

The only difference was, our trip was not a matter of life and death.

Look at it this way~ you are no longer in Oregon, and ~ you are only 1408 miles from Ft Myers Florida. According to the Rand McNalley chart, you can be here in 22 hours and 14 minutes. THATS REALLY CLOSE!!!
Keep on pluggin along guys. You are almost here.

Dan, God love you. You are my hero. Hang in there Bro., You can do it, I know you can. Please bring my little sister to me, and I will help you.

But I won’t be doing that alone. You guys have family, and friends that are flying so high with the angels, that we had to start making a list so that we didn’t repeat things. You have friends of friends of friends with sisters of friends and daughters and sons of friends who works with….. you get my drift. The angel network is making me speechless. I will NEVER, EVER let anyone say that people do not care about each other in this world again.
Hour after hour, a new gift is offered in your name for whatever people feel that might help you the most. Money, a child’s pair of new Rebok’s, casseroles being frozen in freezers for you, furniture, dishes, silverware (all this because there is a landlord friend that is probably going to help you get into a home rental, waiving the first few months rent till you get on your feet), a friends daughter is selling you a mini van for half of what she had intended to sell it for… and let you make payments to her~ My husband Dick and my friend Jim is leaving in the morning for Indiana to pick it up and bring it back, thanks to a local trailer company loaning a car hauler trailer, just this evening dear friends of mine offered to help to drive to where you will be if you have to fly in, to help Dan with the kids or to help them get here safely with their motorhome, sister Pam has items on Ebay with proceeds going to you, your sister in law Lisa secured Dan a job VIA her boss and her co workers are donating things and money, Aunts and Uncles and cousins and mothers and fathers, and neices and nephews sending checks, and on and on and on and on.

You are special people. You have helped so many people in your lifetime, and I think this is one of those times to say ” what goes around comes around”. If it all sounds overwhelming, it truly is. But it is God’s will, to be blessed with all this love, that you deserve. Do not question it, just humbly accept it. Because it makes us feel very good inside to be helping you.

So when you think it can’t get any worse, remember that 1400 miles away, we are waiting for you. We are ready for you. We will help you get through this. It will be OK. Just be safe and God speed.

Anita and the “Florida angel network”

Oh My sweet little sister… I love you. It will be ok. We will make it ok.
It is sooooo breezy, even sitting here in my office. I feel those angels just
“swooooshing” by. Jean sent them. Thanks Jean.

Secondly, there are two ways that you can post your prayers in here. One way is here in the Guest book; The other place you could post your prayers would be on the discussion board, which we have set up a prayer line for doing that there. However, in order to post a prayer on the discussion section would require you to join the site by filling out a brief form with your email address and you can give as little or as much info. on the form as you wish, it will still sign you up. It will take a few minutes longer to do, but once you have done that you can return to this site and sign in to continue to post prayers and discussions without having the post be delayed.

If I am correct they are monitoring the posts in the Guest book section, so the first time posting on this page would be slightly delayed until Teresa or Dan could review the post and then submitted it, but you wouldn’t need to fill out any form or join the group. If I am mistaken about this I am sure that Teresa will update this post about that.

I was just thinking that during the time Teresa is having her operation and recovery it might be a blessing for them not to have to worry so much about checking continuously to make sure first posts get submitted, But if you would join the group you could post your prayers in the discussion section and they wouldn’t have to monitor it, it gets submitted instantly.

Although if you have problems doing that don’t worry about it and go ahead and post your prayers here! You won’t have a form to fill out and we really would like to know that you were here and offered Teresa a note of support! That is the most important thing, we just want your prayers and if it does take a little longer to appear here please have patience and understand if it does take a little while to show. Again, Thank you so very much for coming! We love you all! ~Pam