Sibling Assignment # 129: Surviving Cancer

Silver Valley Girl gave the third sibling assignment this month around the theme of April. "In the movie “Pieces of April”, the plot centers around the main character April fixing her estranged family Thanksgiving dinner.  Pick a holiday meal our family has shared in the past, and write about it."

The holiday that was celebrated over ten years ago was not a traditional family holiday. It was one we created as a family. We celebrated Mom surviving her treatments for breast cancer. She decided she wanted a lobster dinner when the treatments came to an end. The siblings with spouses headed to  Milford's Fish House in Spokane and had a high spirited celebration as we ordered Mom lobster, enjoyed good food and toasted to Mom's quest of enduring chemo and radiation.

Silver Valley Girl put together a basket of pink gifts, there was pink champagne, and pink flowers. It was an evening full of laughs and love and now thirteen years later I am proud to report she has continued to be cancer free. My prayer is that we continue to celebrate each year her quest for being cancer free.

April is National Poetry Month: Do Poodles Like Noodles?

This anthology is especially popular with my younger readers and writers. The poems are light and silly, but it the illustrations are what keep all of us returning to this book. Here is the first poem in the book which the title of the book was pulled from.



Sometimes I Wonder
Sometimes I wonder if poodles like noodles,
Do lions us irons,
Can chickens read Dickens,
Do horses take courses,
Can beavers be weavers,
Do monkeys ride donkeys,
Can aardvarks be card sharks,
Do rabbits break habits,
Can kittens kniw mittens,
Do possums wear blossoms,
Can turtles jump hurdles?
I don't know the answers,,
I haven't a clue.
It's just fun to wonder,
Do you do it, too?

by Laura Numeroff