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size=5 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Christmas Greetings 2007!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'>Time flies and it is time to remember the
reason for the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I hope that
you all have had time to reflect and attend your church program as well.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our daughter and family participate in
their Christmas program each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We all get to listen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>All of the kids will be home for Christmas
providing the weather cooperates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By the way we missed getting a lot of ice.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>What we did get was rain during the afternoon while the temp
was above freezing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What ice that
was on the trees just kept falling off, it was quite pretty seeing the ice all
over the yard</span></font><font color=red><span style='color:red'>.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>We have had a challenging year
taking Norman off Hemodialysis and starting him on peritoneal dialysis, which
is home dialysis (this is done every night).<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>It is 6 months this December since we began. That means that
he is hooked up at night and the cycler works doing three fills, three dwells
and three drains, alternating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>When that is complete the cycler shuts off after working 5 or 6 hours
and we disconnect in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He has had various issues however the cycler isn’t one it operates just
fine & is very convenient.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>One nice thing about using the
cycler is that it allows us to venture out.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>We have taken it along with all the supplies we need plus
the solution needed and traveled to St Louis.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Because we did that we got to see Lauren 12 & Eliott 9
act in a play called Charlotte’s Web and the last time we got to spend
Thanksgiving with the kids at Jacqui’s.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'>These have been three or four days stays,
I’m not sure if we’re up to staying any longer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I’d like to go to Ariz but wow that will take relative good health and a
lot of planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We both have
relatives there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=green><span style='color:green'>The grandkids spent four days with us in
August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Matt (he will be going on another
medical mission as the pharmacist) was home and helped keep them active.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Matt took them to a park in Spfd.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>The picture on the left shows them all crowded into a
spaceship, aren’t they just the cutest???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Wel-l-l, I’ll give you an edge on that!! You may please send us some
pictures, no grandkids </span></font><font size=2 color=green><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>then how about a
picture of your family</span></font><font color=green><span style='color:green'>.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font size=2 color=green><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Valerie also
joined us to celebrate Eliott’s 9<sup>th</sup> birthday</span></font>. <font
size=2 color=green><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
color:green'>Thanks Gary & Pookie for the kids’ picture!!!</span></font><font
color="#339966"><span style='color:#339966'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>This is a time when we want to tell the special
people, family and friends, in our lives just how fondly they are remembered
and loved forever and always. May the very </span></font><font color=red><span
style='color:red'>best come to you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>in the new year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Merry Christmas from Norman & Roberta</span></font></p>
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