Wednesday, January 1, 2014

2014 is the Year of the Patti!

Happy New Year All!         

Are the Holiday’s really over?  I've got an old friend who claims the Holidays don’t end until the Super Bowl….. I hope he’s right…. And wrong.

Since we last communicated very little has changed.  What wonderful words to type.  Patti is on her chemo meds this week which tends to make her tired.  But not cranky.  Nephew Christopher Thompson, a senior at the Naval Academy, is visiting Atlanta for New Year’s and Mary Catherine saw to it he was well entertained.  He’ll be an Aviator soon and makes us all very proud.

 Yes, we hosted exactly 30 for Thanksgiving at Erymwold with guests from Birmingham, Dahlonega, Augusta and Atlanta.  No one went hungry and the cheer was genuine.  Hopefully we can do it again next year.

We have learned that medical residents tend to get married at Christmas when their schedule allows.  Patti and I plus the kids were invited to a great affair in Athens on December 21st and then Kiley and Patti went to a beauty in Nashville the next weekend. Can’t remember a ‘do nothing’ weekend in quite a while…. Soon we hope.

Christmas traditions are in Atlanta so the whole crowd was at Club 22 for the celebration of Jesus’s birthday;  New Year’s Eve too.  Patti has held up great through it all and in fact tends to lead the mischief making.  Her Aunt Kitty convinced her to blonde her hair a bit and the pixie cut combined with her beautiful face make Patti prettiest woman in every room.
(Lucy Shuler, Patti and Jane Leonard planning Thanksgiving)

(Mary Catherine and Patti at the wedding of Gini and Rett Reeve)

Your continued prayers are solicited for 2014.  It is rare for a family to go into another year with so much uncertainty.  But so be it.  This is the year cancer loses, and Patti wins.

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