Lisa's Birthday and stuff

First I want to thank you for all the love and prayers for Lorraine.  She has had several tests and they have mostly ruled out the fact that the spots on her lungs are metastases as they have found no cancer anywhere else.  But they don't know what is in her lungs so she will have to have a lung biopsy.  As it is, she has little stamina (not normal for her as she is usually a little dynamo).  so keep those prayers coming.
Today Lisa would be an earthly 41 years old.  I find it so hard to be here without her.  I lit a candle at midnight and sat alone and wrote her a letter.  I reminisced about some ot the things that made us laugh. Today,  I decided to have a 'normal' day.  I went with friends to a neigbourhood presentation about the future of our community.  They had some university students do a project with people in the area asking what they thought was important for the area.  It was a good presentation.  Then we went to the pub and toasted Lisa.
I think Lisa has been close to me for the last while.  I have been reluctant to tell many people about the fact that she comes to say hi as a bird.  I told you about the hawk that buzzed Lorraine's little back yard. A couple days later, we went for a short walk - she needed fresh air.  First we heard a flock of noisy sparrows.  She commented that she had never seen birds there.  Then a couple flew down between us.  Lorraine was shocked "I've never seen anything like it!"  Then, on our way back, we heard a bird and stopped to listen. It was a black bird and it sounded like it was talking - I heard 'mama" three or four times.  We looked closely trying to figure out what kind of bird it was.  After awhile it started crowing - it was a young crow!  Today as my neigbours and I were walking to the meeting, we heard a woodpecker - a very noisy woodpecker.  We looked up and there it was, a very young bird - Leslie said "Lisa is here to tell you everything is alright". 
So life goes on.  Andrew is doing fine.  They are moving at the end of May.  They finally sold their money pit and will have a house without a leaky roof.  He is really busy.  He has the story written for the video game he was writing and is now in the studio with the actors.  He even got to say a couple of things.  He is still doing the screenplay for Mexico and today, he is a a young writer's conference doing presentations about writing.  I know Lisa is proud of him!
Lisa:  You know how much I love and miss you.  I hope you are having a great party with Erik and Greg, Robert and all the FMO kids who are with you.  I miss you always and love you forever, Mum