The Boy.

You can see the tail end of an orca and great white shark that I painted on the boys' bedroom wall.

This January I plan to start finishing my bedroom projects. The boys need some kelp, sardines, a manta ray and maybe a gray whale in their room.

The girls have a pirate theme going. We have some posters to frame and hang up...and a little touch of this and that should complete the theme in their room.

Sugar Booger's Spongebob walls are complete and a friend just made her some Spongebob curtains, so those will need to be hung up.

Pray for JD (above). He's having a hard time dealing with his sister's illness. Outwardly he seems to be the same old kid, but his thoughts are full of bad things...Becca being sick and dying, the death of a cat earlier this year. He's worried that more bad stuff like that will happen, that maybe other people in the family will die.

Bad stuff happens, I told him. But good stuff happens, too. So we will get through it all together...and with lots of hugs.