Life Is An Attitude

That has always been my motto for life and Walt has adopted it pretty good.  Our god, Jehovah, has told us through the scriptures to be positive in our life.  Jesus said, in his sermon on the mount, that we could be "happy" in just about every circumstance.  So, here we are with a terrible diagnosis and yet again Walt is amazing the doctors and everyone else for that matter.  Where he should be at this point and where he is are very far apart.  I say "the power of prayer and a good attitude".  No, things aren't perfect and when I said to Walt this morning "maybe you will beat this too", he said "not this time", but he added, "I'm just going to do my best to stick around as long as it will let me".  What a guy. All credit goes to god for helping us to stay strong. Thanks again and again for talking to him in our behalf.
It helps that Walt has so much to look forward to, also. His children coming this weekend.  Auntie Sharon coming from Hemet, Ca. Best friends Dina and Oscar and their 3 beautiful daughters coming from Desert Hot Springs, Ca. The big party.  We have heard from many with stories about Walt.  He just loves reading them.  I have to share a couple.
Walt's "baby" sister Marlene sent this. "My favorite memory is when Walt had a paper route, think it was Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday paper and I was probably 6,7 or 8 years old and Walt would've been 7 years older.  Anyway, I went into the living room in the early morning when he was folding his papers and with my tooth that I had under my pillow said, 'the tooth fairy didn't come' (probably crying because I was such a baby) and Walt told me to go back to bed because it was too early and maybe she would come yet.  Well before he went to deliver papers, he came into my bedroom and gave me a hug while I lay on my pillow and after he was gone, I checked and there were 10 pennies under my pillow.  That was when I realized that there wasn't really a tooth fairy but I had a big brother that loved me very, very much and could probably only dig up 10 pennies back in the 1950's!!!  That is my BEST memory because not many years after that he went into the Navy...."
Then big sister Nona comes up with this: She remembers the newspaper route and said Walt delivered for the Youngstown Vindicator in 1952 and said he sold the most subscriptions and WON a trip to Washington, DC and got to meet President Eisenhower!!! That is amazing and wondered if Walt remembered that trip to DC.
I wondered too, because I had never heard that story.  How are you married to someone for 41 years and not know that they once met a president?  I know Walt doesn't brag, but seriously? We have since figured out it was for the inauguration.  He says that when you are a teenager those things don't make that big of an impression.  I've said it before, Goofy man!
Here's your invitation.  Wish everyone could come.  Love to all.......