Team In Training

You'll be hearing more about this from me as time goes on. I'm training for a marathon through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in memory of my aunt Mary (Sig) who passed away last fall. The deal is that the branch of the LLS called Team In Training trains me and sends me to the marathon in return for me raising a set amount of money for them. The Society uses the money for research and a good portion goes to families in need, an aspect that I really like.

I'm going to be running the Dublin marathon in, yes, Dublin. I'm really excited about it, but I have to raise $6700, which kind of makes me want to puke. Could I have picked a worse economic climate to do fundraising in? Oh, well. People don't get to pick when they get sick...

Anyway, the LLS has given me my own fundraising page. So here it is:

http://pages.teamintraining.org/txg/dublin09/troth4sig

Official training begins May 9th, but I've been huffing around Texas for the last few weeks to get a jump start. Ugh.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

She wouldn't really hold still, stop crumpling the paper, etc. I did my best. :)

Drew

It's been a long, long time since I posted anything on here. In part it's been because I've been busy. In part it's because I've wanted to post about my nephew Drew before anything else. I guess it's hard to write about something so tragic because it makes it palpable again.

Andrew Arden Roth, 3 years old, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on February 25th, 2009 - Ash Wednesday. He was just the most beautiful boy, so joyful and sweet. He loved everyone, particularly his twin sister Nora. I don't even know how to write about the sadness of losing a child. I don't really think that I can. So I'm going to post these pictures of him so that we can remember him and keep his memory alive.