Accessorizing...

Dad's feeling good. I saw him today at Whit's and he looks pretty good too! It has become clear quite quickly that the chemo has not gotten the best of Tom Ewing :)

We (the girls) were getting crafty and working on the place cards for Thanksgiving, thinking out loud about ways to get a hold of some twigs (should we just buy cinnamon sticks, can Taylor scrounge some up in her hood?). Next thing you know, there goes my dad. Out the door and up a tree. Whitney's birch tree out front. He pruned the heck out of it then proceeded to cut us 40 perfect bundles for our random crafty idea.

We took it inside and worked out a nice assembly line. Whitney stamping, dad embossing, me on handwriting, Taylor and Renee tying the twine. We will be sure to post pics of the gorgeous, eco-friendly, sustainable place cards once they are complete - they were definitely a labor of love!

Also - Whitney gave us these gorgeous necklaces today with St. Joseph (the patron Saint of fathers), an angel wing and a locket. She gave dad a bracelet with some other saint that is the patron saint of cancer patients (or maybe it's just cancer?). He wasn't totally pumped on wearing a bracelet and said he'd keep it in his wallet (this was so not OK with Whitney). Whitney argued that this was a very manly bracelet - I considered this a bit of an oxymoron (Ryan agreed this was 100% an oxymoron - potentially even more so than "jumbo shrimp"). When he came by this afternoon, Whitney asked if he was wearing it and he was. Up above his watch with the charm tucked in between the velcro of his watch band so it didn't dangle. Hilarious.

It was so nice to be together. We had a really good today :)

~kyle