Rounding the corner of Cormorant Drive, I could see the old P T Cruiser in our driveway.
Mark and Amy are home!
Caylea finished another session of the Interferon treatment and felt the headache and tiredness coming on as we arrived back home.  The dose was half what she started out with so we are hoping it will be effective but with milder side effects.  She was wrapped in her afghan from Great Grandma Cecile as she walked carefully up the stairs to our front door.
It was wonderful to see Caylea's face perk up as she greeted her brother and sister-in-law.  We all visited for a while as they gave Caylea a belated birthday gift (a warm, soft blanket/shawl) and a souvenir from the Maritimes (a Put Pot-ceramic dish for rings, or what-nots).
Walter was going to meet them at the Healing Hearts Ministry Centre to give them keys and let them move in to the suite upstairs.  They will stay there while Mark helps do concrete and framing of the woodshop rebuild for the next few weeks.  I am excited to have them stay nearby, if only for a while.
As they took their things into the suite and arranged furniture to their liking, Caylea rested and watched a couple episodes of "Planet Earth", on loan from Grandma Dinah.  By supper time, she was feeling somewhat better and ate a reasonable amount of chicken, pasta and sauce.
Daniel has been house-sitting for our friends who are on a missions trip to Uganda for a month.  We had invited him for supper tonight but he had the first league curling game tonight of the new season.  Still, it is a balm of comfort to have my kids all home in the same city!  Does a mother's heart good!
As we face this week of resumed cancer treatments, I need the Lord as much as ever.
And yet, it seems with Mark and Amy's presence here not just for a visit but to stay for an extended period, I feel encouraged that they can help us get through...by helping build, by spending time with Caylea, by participating in church and family events.  Maybe this is one of the ways God is providing for us.
I am so thankful that the Lord is with us - I can't imagine trying to cope without Him.