It's Always Something

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year!

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to my sister, Nancy Tufts

This blog was primarily created to inform friends and family of Nancy's progress as she battles ovarian cancer. It is also a place to share images of life in Maine, family memories and the misadventures of the "four stunning Smith sisters" and their friends. Your stories and comments are welcome. Enjoy!

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"It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseannadanna, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something."
- Gilda Radner on "Saturday Night Live"

Sisters

Cheryl & Nancy at Relay for Life 6/08

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"Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

- Gilda Radner

Ovarian Cancer Symptoms

~Pelvic or abdominal pain or discomfort
~Vague, but persistent, gastrointestinal upsets such as gas, nausea, and indigestion
~Frequency and/or urgency of urination in absence of an infection
~Unexplained weight gain or weight loss
~Pelvic and/or abdominal swelling, bloating and/or feeling of fullness
~Ongoing unusual fatigue
~Unexplained changes in bowel habits

"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
- Gilda Radner

"Daddy" 1923-2005

"My father didn't tell me how to live...he lived and let me watch him." ~C.B. Kelland

Nancy's VW

the bumper sticker says it all!

“If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.” - unknown

Andrea, Cheryl & Nancy 1954

Three "Stunning Smith Sisters"

Cheryl, Andi & Nancy

"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ~Erma Bombeck

Smith cousins reunion 2009

Nancy, Kathy and Maureen

Together again!

Sue & Cheryl

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me!"
~Dr. Seuss

Nancy - Christmas 2007

Our family's best cook!

"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch"
~Gilda Radner

Sisters

Joanne & Nancy 2005

Hilda & Mom 2007

Mom & Dad's Wedding 6/29/46

Uncle Arthur, Dad, Mom, Aunt Marion

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Relay for Life 2008

Nancy leads Survivor Lap

Relay for Life 2007

Aaron & Andi with our Team Banner

Dave, Kit, Aaron & Hank

Erin & Kit Doty

Rob & Taka 2009

Katy, Andi & Kristen

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon, Beautiful Boy

Kristen Underwood

Japan 2004

Rob & Taka

"Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one."
John Lennon, Imagine

Rob, Taka & Tomomi

Toshinori Henry Underwood

Robert & Brian Lawson

Cheryl & Hank's grandsons

Mark's 50th!

Mark & Joanne

Camping in their "Patriot" t@b

Kristen & Aunt Nancy

Andi

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." ~Emily Dickinson

Nancy & Kit

“Hope… Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.” Barack Obama

Contributors

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year!

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