Weekly update

Hello friends and family--Katie will make me a blogger, yet! Little by little and step by step--Lloyd gets better every day; no walking yet, but he is standing better and is still losing weight--down to 314, now. I'm in the midst of getting ready for Christmas--some of my staff came over this morning and we cut and wrapped 14 batches of caramels. What a relief. I still have about 50 cheese balls to make and bake a garbage sack full of chex mix; the plan is for these to be distributed on Dec. 18th. It's still questionable whether we will be able to get Lloyd home on Christmas--he needs to be able to transfer from chair to car, and car to chair, etc. We're getting there, and he has a great motivation to come home--Derek and Vicki and their five pixies are coming for Christmas. What fun! We feel blessed--Stephanie and Guy and Daniel were here for Thanksgiving--and of course, Katie has been a great help. She's going to accompany me to our company party tonight so I don't have to drive in Fresno at night--my night vision is the pits! Today is Santa Lucia Day in Kingsburg--but I'll miss the parade as I have to be in Fresno. Thanks so much for all your love and support. It helps--love, Mom, grandmom and Georgie