Prayers Please !

I just found out a long time friend has cancer! Lynn and I have been friends since we were in the 7th grade. We met at church camp in Kerrville. The funny part was our families have known each other for years. It's amazing that we have always stayed in contact with each other. Although, I don't see her as often as I would like I think about her all the time. I'm asking for prayers for Lynn. She will under go surgery October 13th. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and this was caught early. As she says "It's only a bump in the road." I love you Lynn and you are in my thoughts and prayers!!!

HELP ME HELP HANNAH

The following is a letter that a family of a little girl in my class is sending out. I've decided to participate in the walk on Hannah's team. So PLEASE visit my website and donate to a wonderful cause. I've only had Hannah a couple of weeks and this little girl is amazing. I truly believe that Hannah's was brought into my life for a reason. I plan on helping her in anyway I can. So PLEASE help me help Hannah. My Website: http://walk.jdrf.org/walker.cfm?id=87110073


Hi Everyone,
I am writing this letter on behalf of our daughter, Hannah and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
As you may be aware of, Hannah was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes on January 7, 2008 at the age of 7. She is now completely insulin dependant, which means that she must take insulin injections daily. This was a total shock to us and has changed our lives completely. One day Hannah was complaining of a belly ache and I thought she had the flu and then a few days later she was being admitted to the PICU with her blood sugars at 1050 (normal is between 80 – 120), where she stayed for 2 ½ days and was in the hospital for the rest of the week. Type 1 Diabetes is a devastating disease that strikes suddenly and very quickly. We do not have a family history of this disease and Type 1 is not related to lifestyle factors. There is not a cure for this disease yet, which means Hannah will have to take insulin for the rest of her life. She is now 8 years old. Hannah started out having to take 4 shots of insulin daily. She is now on an insulin pump but still has to prick her fingers 12+ times per day and throughout the night. That equals about 2070 times since Jan 7 that she has had to prick her fingers and she has had over 600 shots just this year. Most of the time Hannah is upbeat and smiling, but some days she cries, as do I. We change out her pump site every 2 – 3 days, and it is hard. I have to inject a long needle into her stomach, where a canula then stays. Hannah is still very active, though and loves to ride horses, play volleyball and basketball. There has to be a better way to manage this disease though. Hannah is our hero. She is so brave. We draw strength from her courage.
You can help Hannah and other children with this disease! Our family is walking in the 2008 JDRF Walk For A Cure. We have started a team and it is called “Hannah’s Bears.” The JDRF is the #1 funder of Type 1 Diabetes in the world. They are also very close to finding a cure. We want to do all we can to help make finding a cure in Hannah’s lifetime a reality. Our clinic, Back to Health Chiropractic is dedicating the month of September to “Hannah’s Bears” and we will be donating 100% of new patient proceeds to Hannah’s team. You can help by walking with our team on Saturday October 11, 2008 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Registration is at 12 noon with the 5K walk at 1:00 pm. We want as many family and friends to join our team and raise pledges that can. We have even ordered t-shirts for all of our team members! We think it will be a lot of fun! If you can’t walk with us you can still help by sending a donation. You can send it to our home address (31427 Tres Lomas, Bulverde, TX 78163) or online at walk.jdrf.org under Walk Central. Just type in Hannah’s name (Hannah Czerminski), and our team name Hannah’s Bears. You can call me with any questions at 210-683-1150.
Thank you for loving Hannah and supporting her! We can’t do it without your help! Please help our team and help Hannah be able to say that she used to have diabetes.

Love, Jeanie, Drew, Andrei and Hannah Czerminski

Good Bye Summer :(

Okay so my sister did this and I thought it was neat. Since today is the unoffical last day of summer I thought I'd say goodbye listing my most favorite events of the summer. Since I am a teacher Summer is always my favorite time of year. So I have lots of favorite things. Some of these I have blogged about so you will know what I'm talking about.

1. Hanging out with the girls all day long.

2. Swimming at my Aunt and Uncle's house with my mom, sister and the kids.

3. Getting a tan because as my sister says " Tan fat is pretty than white fat.)

4. Swimming at our house in our little pool with the whole family.

5. HURRICANE DOLLY oh yeah and our trip to the coast for a whole week. We're making T-shirts that say I survied Hurricace Dolly and BIG Week '08.

6. Randy Rogers Concert!!! Had a great time but paid for it the next morning.

7. OUr many trtips to Fiesta Texas.

8. July 4th... I loved everything about it. The parade in the morning and the fireworks at the park that night. It was just a great day.

9. Pottery painting with the girls. I will forever have this piece of art!!

10. Our trip to Houtson to what the Astros vs. Cardinals. We just wished Reagan could have been with us.

Goodbye to our friend summer! We look forward to what you have in store for us next year. We hope you had a wonderful summer, as well.

'Twas the Day Before the 1st Day of School

'Twas the Day before the 1st day of School when all through the house mom was busy cleaning up after the little mouse! The backpacks were hung by the back door with care in hopes that the lunch box would soon get in there. The children were playing in there rooms while visions of textbook, pencils and crayons danced in their heads. While dad was reading the Sunday paper, mom went to a meeting at school for a bit. When mom sprang from her meeting to see what was the matter, she realized that her house was a mess. She wished there was a little fairy to come and make her life merry. Her mother was coming and spoke not a word but went straight to work and gleefully worked. I heard them exclaim as we went out of sight... Happy New School Year to all and to all a good night!

Hope everyone has a great first day of school. I can already tell this is going to be a great year. A new school (okay it's not new but it is to me.), new principal, and a wonderful class. This is going to be an awesome year! I'm sure I'll let you know how it goes.

Waiting on a Woman

Okay, I know 2 posts in 1 weekend. I should be cleaning my house, or getting ready for work tomorrow but instead I'm playing. We were running a few errands the other day and this song came on the radio. Ryan said this was his song because he's always waiting on a woman. I never really listened to the song until he pointed it out. We all laughed and then I kinda had to feel sorry for him. Poor Ryan is always waiting on a woman on a woman. Ryan is the only male in a household of 6 woman. I say 6 because our puppy, fawn and kitten are all female. Listen to this song and think of Ryan.

Nothing really???

Well, I don't really have much to blog about today. I just felt like blogging. This morning Ryan was going to surprise us with breakfast. However, to his surprise the freezer outside went out. We had to take EVERYTHING out of the freezer. Yes, this sucks!!! We managed to save a lot of the food but all of the sausage we made had to go. I guess we were a little tired of that anyway. Ryan went to work at the river while the girls and I went to Sears to buy a new freezer. I really don't care for the mall but on TAX FREE weekend... I HATE it. There were people everywhere. Are you really saving that much money? Anyway, we got a freezer and it will be delivered tomorrow. I'm sure Ryan's grandma will be happy since all of our food is in her freezer.

This is my last weekend before I go back to school. As much as I love being home with the girls, I always love the beginning of school. It's a chance to start all over. My classroom is going to be a wild theme. I'm thinking in more ways than one. We have moved from the old middle school to the old Elementary school. We are getting a brand new school in 2 years. This is will be cool.

That's all for now!!! Have a wonderful week. My sister sent me this picture that she did with Photoshop. It is so sweet. I'm going to put this is Reagan's room.

Okay so that can be sweet to each other if only in a picture!

Meet Pepper

Meet the newest member of our family... Pepper. As promised by the wonderful parents we are (or strive to be) we told the girls we would get a puppy after we returned from our vacation. So Friday night when we got home Karagen immediately asked when were we going to get one. Sunday afternoon Ryan was reading the classifieds in the paper. A family in Seguin was selling Blue Merel, Australian Shepperd puppies. Ryan has always wanted one so we were off. We fell in love with her. She is a wonderful puppy. We couldn't ask for a better pet for our family. The ironic thing is she was born on our anniversary, June 12th. We didn't realize that unitl after we bought her. Daisy Girl (the deer) and OJ have kinda tolerated her but I think they are growing on each other.

http://txaussieshepherd.blogspot.com/ The website for the other puppies in case you wanted to take a look. They are all so cute. It was hard to choose just one. If they weren't all brothers and sisters Ryan would have taken another one.