Brain Exercises....

We are sitting in Alpina Cafe in So. Lake Tahoe sipping on our hot drinks surfing the net. We all have our own laptops this weekend thanks to Aunt Genevieve and Uncle Micheal and Biola. Mark and I are checking and sending e-mails, Ben and Josh are playing chess with others in Poland, Germany, America, England, and Italy ... when I comment (interrupting our web comatose) "Did you know we're still getting e-mails from our mail.com address?" Mark replies, "I don't think anyone uses that anymore." I start giggling at this nonsense conversation and Mark replies in his usual humor, "and then we'll go to Indonesia". Ben perks up, "We are!" Now, we're all cracking up. OK, maybe we better get off the web and get some fresh air in real life. I would post a photo, but I forgot our camera. We hope you are having a great Thanksgiving weekend. Happy Thanksgiving!

P.S. ...

It looks like in order to play the song that I posted, you need to put it on the pause mode for some reason.
Have a good week!

cool and didn't know it...

Our last name Saucy is apparently a cool word these days - at least here in So. Cal. Ben says that kids at his Jr. High (including the cheerleaders!) have come up to him asking if his name is really saucy. Ben answers, "Yes" - their reply is, "Cool!" Young salespeople tell us the same thing in stores, "Cool name!". And here we thought we would be these "out of it" missionaries coming back to America. Someone said it means sassy in a cool way. We use the french pronunciation: So-(long o)see - the only place it was ever pronounced correctly the first time was when we were at the Paris airport, but we'll take saucy now too... we think! :)

a trip to City of Hope

I went for my follow-up appointment at City of Hope. Some of the symptoms I'm experiencing is from the chemo I had, the others are from the med I'm taking, so Dr. Chow switched me to a different med that helps keep cancer cells from growing. Hopefully, I won't get the achyness with this new one. The good news is that my cancer marker count is still 12 - within the normal range.

City of Hope is a cancer research medical center. I'm so thankful I can be treated there. The down side of it is that it takes about 40-45+ minutes to get there depending on traffic. Most of the time I don't mind the drive though -time to spend with Mark, a friend or just with God. This time, I discovered a beautiful song on a new CD we got: "You Are Good" by Point of Grace meaning that God is always good. Enjoy...

a special guest from Ukraine ...

We had a special visitor from Ukraine this week - Eduard Borisov (Edik). Edik and Eric Oldenburg direct Talbot's new Extension Master's Program in Kyiv at KTS, while Mark now directs from here in CA. Talbot flew Edik over to get better acquainted with Talbot and it's vision. It was so nice to have him here. After a week of meetings, on his last day, we gave him the So. Cal experience - as you see in the photo - Laguna Beach.

Dr. Chow had me come in today because I've been having some numbing, tingling and aching in my fingers and arms. They are taking me off the arimidex for a few days or so and re-evaluating. I've had it for a while now, but it has progressively been getting worse, where last night I didn't sleep all that well. I'll write what the outcome is. I'm so glad I'm being treated at City of Hope - I called today and was seen by the doctor the same day! I'm most grateful because "the nearness of God is my good..." Ps. 73:28