Hello Everyone, I know Jenn and I are getting bad in posting on here frequently enough. Will try to do better. I am going to see her on Friday and staying a week. I will nag her about this. Jenn has been very busy at work. The season is drawing to a close. only open weekends now, but her week is busy finishing up this years records and starting to plan for next year. She is planning to take a couple of days off so we can go see some of the things we haven’t been able to since she moved to VA. Fuat will be in Turkey for a…

It’s been a hectic few weeks and I see neither mom or I have had time to post on here… even on July 27th.. the 5 year anniversary of our beautiful Kerrie leaving us. Mom, Ron, Alisa, Fuat and I went to the cemetery, and wanted to do a balloon launch but it was pouring really hard that day. We sat in the car, trying to decide what to do and then… at 3:30pm.. the time of Kerrie’s passing, the rain stopped and we were able to get out of the car and spend some time with her. I don’t think that’s coincidence 🙂 Please forgive us for not writing…

Hello Kast Family, Well, it’s July again and an overly warm and dry July too. It was that way five years ago also. It will be five years on July 27 since Kerrie left us and the day of her funeral was much like it is here now. These five years have gone by very slowly and also very fast. There are days when I still can’t believe it’s real and others when I know it is. Jenn and Fuat are coming here next week and as a family with Ron (and possibly his family) we will go to the cemetery to sit awhile and think of and remember Kerrie. This coming…

Every year I have watched my friends, Jan and Cristel, get involved with Relay for Life and captain thier own teams. I’ve seen my co-workers ( Marce… especially you) put every ounce of energy into their Relay For Life events. I’ve read about Pam Munthe’s efforts with the Luekemia and Lymphoma society and the marathon’s she runs ( Pam if I spelled your last name wrong please forgive me). I’ve donated money to all of these, and more, but never found the time to get too involved in them myself. I was either busy taking care of Kerrie, busy moving to Virginia, busy fighting the U.S. Government to get Fuat…

Well, spring has finally arrived, despite the fact that it has been like spring here since February and we have had some snowflakes since the season became official. It’s been awhile since we have posted and I want to wish all a happy Easter and Passover holiday season (and any other holiday I have missed). It’s been quiet around here, but I have stayed pretty busy between yard work, some things I do at the Senior Center (i.e., computer classes, etc) and a recent workshop I attended. I have had to take a few days to settle back from the workshop. It was an all day event and was presented…

Sometimes Kerrie just walks into the room… I can feel her with me, I know she is here.. and when she is gone I miss her terribly. Today is one of those days. For a brief moment I felt her with me, like she was standing right next to me, and then she was gone. I wish she would stay longer. I miss her so much and I wonder if she knows. Does she know how much I want to hear her voice or hear her laugh just one time? Does she know how much I wish I could just hug her and tell her I love and miss her?…

Hello Kast Family, Just got home a little while ago from the cemetary. Went there to think of Ker and wish her a happy birthday. She turns 43 today. I try to imagine what it would be like if she were here. She’d be done with nursing school by now and probably in a nice apartment or house.  Working at Henry Ford Hospital if she had her way. She really liked everyone there and thought that’s where she like to go after graduation. Or maybe still at one of the Pontiac hospitals in the mother baby unit. She dearly loved the job she had in that dept at NOMC. As usual, she would have…

Hello KAST Family and Merry Christmas ( or whatever holiday you may be celebrating this week). This time of year is filled with happiness, but of course there is always some sadness too. It’s our 5th Christmas without Kerrie. Sometimes it’s so hard to believe she’s not here with us. I keep wanting to buy Christmas presents for her and then remember that she won’t be sitting around the tree with us in the morning. Although I can’t buy her everything I want to, I always get her one gift. The same gift I have given her for more than 30 years… a slinky. I don’t remember when it started,…

Hello All ! We’re back and we did it! Riding an elephant is nothing. Not even when the mahout jumps off and walks ahead so he can use your camera and take pictures (and he doesn’t get back on). Not even when you swing back and forth and roll around the elephants back as the huge shoulder bones go up and down and you feel like your going to fall off for sure, and your palms are grabbing the lap bar so hard and sweating so much you can hardly hang on and roller coasters are beginning to look really really good. Piece of cake, nothing to it………. Next time…

As the song says… one night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster. Well.. two nights and you still have jetlag 🙂 Hello from Bangkok KAST Family! Life has been so busy lately that Mom and I had to come all the way to Bangkok to find time post a note on here 🙂 We are here on a business trip, but going to make it a vacation while we are here. Hoping to ride an elephant, go to the grand palace and dance like Anna and the King of Siam and take a walk on the bridge over the river Kwai ( Well.. at the least the one that…