Star Wars

The Copsey's are full on Star Wars fans.  Clint and Katie can tell you facts about the movies that blows my mind.  We watch the movies often, and Disney put out a lego Star Wars show that is hilarious.
Last week the library put on a Star Wars event.  Clint was beyond psyched.  He was convinced he was going to drive the Millennium Falcon.  I tried to calm his excitement down to a more realistic library budget level.  We took his friend with us and they were hoping to make a light saber.  Well lady luck was on their side and they made the coolest light sabers out of pool noodles.  While hunting down the next activity they found Darth Vader and had a little fight,  complete with light saber mouth noises.
There is a series out called Origami Yoda and if you or your child are Star Wars fans they'd like this book.  One of the crafts was to make an Origami Yoda.  Then they got to eat snacks while watching Star Wars.
Clint thoroughly enjoyed his day.  He used the light saber all weekend.  I was kept safe at Papa Murphys, Smiths, and anywhere else where dastardly events could occur.  My Jedi was by my side protecting me from danger.
May the force be with you!!!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I don't know how many of you know, probably all of you do, but October is national Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Everyone has been affected by cancer in one way or another.  We Copsey's, Thorner's, and Meisenbach's are currently being affected by breast cancer.  My aunt is battling such a courageous battle.  She is a person who hardly ever gets sick (unless she's been around my family and then she'd get the mother of all colds!!!)  She is a caregiver.  Always helping us when we are suffering from one malady or another.  She has helped me and my family through more illnesses then I care to remember.
But now she is the one who is in need, and all the chicken soup and rest in the world can't battle the illness inside of her.  She is taking such powerful medication.  Medication that makes her weak, and ill.  I am sure she hates being the person in need of so much help.  But all of her friends and family have been the recipient of her support and they are falling all over one another to help her.  She is seeing what a friend she has been and people want so badly to make her feel better.  We all wish we could.
Watching her go through her chemo treatments makes me so sad.  She will get better, we know it, but the battle is long, and arduous.  She will eat countless bowls of soup that people will bring her, because they don't know what else to do.  She will wear her wig, and head wraps, and she will look beautiful through her illness.  She will have good days and bad days.  She will laugh and she will cry.  We will all laugh and cry with her.
We will all pray, and pray, and pray, because there is nothing else we can do.  We will wear pink in her honor, and we will shave our boys heads, and Rick's mustache and beard in support for her.  We will pay a little extra this month for food, and other products that donate toward cancer research because we want to see a cure in the future, so that this disease will not affect our children, or their children.
When you wear your pink, or shave your head, or watch football and see all those men wear pink with pride, remember there are people suffering, and there are people surviving breast cancer.  Those people are fighting, and surviving, and living.  Honor them, make them soup, love them, and pray for them.
Fight hard Aunt Carrie!!!!  WE LOVE YOU!!!