Merry Christmas

Hello all,
If anyone is still tracking the blog I wanted to take the time to wish you all a very merry, Christ filled Christmas. Aidan and I are doing well. Christmas was Melisa's favorite time of year and she definately passed that on to her child. Aidan has had a fascination with Melisa's santa collection for years. She had 20 or so and Aidan adopted a dozen of them and named them after members of Melisa's family. I told him the other day that they were all his to care for now that mom was gone. He cares for them more carefully now than he did when Melisa was around. He still rearranges them five times a day in every room in the house.
Christmas is hard without her since it did mean so much to her but she is having Christmas with Jesus. What more could I want for my angel?

I love you all. Happy new year.

As most of you know Melisa passed away yesterday around 7:45AM. She went very peacefully. I love her, I will miss her and she will never leave my heart; but, I know she will never have to worry about chemo, pains, bad news or a clumsy pestering husband.

Service arrangements will be:
Today, Monday 12-14-09 - visitation at Welch funeral home from 5:00-8:00PM
Tomorrow, Tuesday 12-15-09 - funeral at First United Methodist Church, Starkville starting at 10:00AM. There will be visitation from 9:00-10:00.

Memorial domations may be made to First United Methodist Church Children's Ministry, 200 W. Lampkin St. Starkville, MS 39759.

There is an online guestbook at www.welchfuneralhomes.com.

Thank you all for your undying support and love over the past few weeks

Good morning to you all...
I am going to make this one short and sweet. Melisa is now officially cancer and pain free for the first time in two years...so be careful what you do and say because now there is another angel watching over you :)

-Kenley

Good afternoon all. Melisa is still about the same. I rolled her over on her side so she can look out the window for a while. She appears to be bvery content and comfortable.

Many of you know about Aidans obession with inflatable Christmas toys. Well this is a picture of our campsite in Jackson. The sad thing about this picture is knowing there are another six or eight back home in Starkville.

Also, for those of you wondering if Melisa was in good hands down here in Jackson, let me place your minds at ease. Bobby Jones is here watching over us. Bobby is the little red guy in the second picture. He is our Elf on a Shelf and he watches over momma during the day before flying home to the North Pole to report to Santa.

Good morning everybody. She is still holding strong. Her breathing has slowed a little more and it is considerably more shallow; but, she is not about to give up. Don't know why the Lord is keeping her here but there is a reason. We are having good family time with her father and brothers and my mom and dad and sister and all their families. Also, the friends that have come in to laugh and cry. To me that is the most beautiful part of the grieving process.

We love you guys

Hello everyone.

I have created a new blog and new google account info. the blog is remembermelisa.blogspot.com.

To log into remembermelisa.blogspot.com and post a front page blog the login is 4mymel@gmail.com and password is boocefuss.

Please go to the page and tell us something about Melisa you think the rest of the world should know.

This little woman is strong. When Dr. Young came in at 7:30 this morning she said Melisa's organs were all shutting down and that it wouldn't be much longer. It has been about 9 hours and Melisa hasn't declined much at all. Her breathing has stayed steady. It is still very shallow and she is only taking about four or five breathes a minute but it is steady.

Congrats Brian and Karen Templeton. A new bulldog lifer enters the world. I'm sure JD is precious and I can't wait to meet him. Ya'll make sure LT doesn't spoil that boy.