We are blessed!

We're coming off another whirl-wind week at the Palmer home!  I started physical therapy on my left arm on Monday.  I lost some of the mobility in my arm after my surgery last September.  I love my therapist!  He's amazing!  He's got me doing things I didn't think would ever be possible again! He asked me if I could lift my arm up to do my hair.....and I looked at him funny and said, "Have you seen me?  I haven't had to do my hair for 9 months!" He felt a little silly after that. :)
Lyndsey had a tonsillectomy on Wednesday.  What a trooper!  Poor little thing can't hardly get off the couch.  Her diet right now consists of slurpies..and slurpies.  That's all she can get down.  And Marty has food poising as I write this.  This started Wednesday morning....and hasn't let up yet.  Good thing we have 4 bathrooms in our house...and we were stocked up on toilet paper!
And one last event......drum roll please.......THE  CHEMO PORT WAS FINALLY REMOVED!!!!  And that, my friend, is the last chapter of "living life with breast cancer".  Let's close that book...actually, let's BURN that book!
And why do no pictures accompany this post?  Who wants to see Lyndsey passed out on the couch in pain? Or Marty sitting on the throne?...(or kneeling by it.) Or me, with my man's haircut (looking more like Marty's brother than his wife) letting the therapist contort my arm into positions I didn't think humanly possible....and I know my face is contorted while he does it.
Why is this post titled "We are blessed?" ~ Because we are!

He made it!!!!

You cant see me right now....but I'm doing the "Happy Dance!"  Jace made it to Argentina!  Here he is meeting President Carter for the first time!  I'm so happy that his mission has a blogspot so I can "borrow" pictures off their blogspot to put on mine!

And here are the "reinforcements" as they are known in BAW, or the "waiters" as they were known in the U.S.  That must have been quite the sight to see all of them gathered together at the Atlanta airport last night.  Stripling Warriors are what they are! 

Jace is the 4th from the right.......and he's still smiling after flying the "red-eye!"  I love that kid!

Watching Jace's plane fly over the Caribbean Sea.

It's finally here!  Jace is flying over the Caribbean as I write this.  Not gonna lie.....missed a call from him at the airport this afternoon...and I've been crying all evening.  Can't imagine how he felt when he got our voice mail at home, then on my cell, then tried to call his brother....voice mail...then about 6 friends....got all voice mails. :(  Luckily one person answered his call.  I feel awful!  I won't be able to hear from him until Christmas!

Thankfully his Mission President in Alabama felt it was important for him to call us last night and have a nice long chat before he left the country.  For that I am grateful!  Otherwise I don't think I could have handled this situation like an adult!  I just keep thinking the reunion at the airport in 19 months is going to be SWEET!