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Show A2 • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010 Jkntmel 36 East 300 North Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Sentinel is published each Wednesday for $34 per year in area and $38 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. E-mail stories to editor@sfeentinel.com E-mail ads to ads@sfeentinel.com Call us at 801-794^964 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2010 The Sentinel. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SENTINEL (USPS 024716) is published weekly for $34.00 per year by J-Mart Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to J-Mart Publishing, 280 N. Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor, display advertisements, classified ads, Business Index: Friday, 12 p.m. ommunity ews Guardian of Your Community News A mother's gifts full circle — a rather unexpected delight. For soon the Life After Birth child become a parent and Janene Baadsgaard sees your offerings with deeper awareness and tenWhen you're the mom derness. busy raising a family you One of the most pleasspend your days offering ant surprises in a mother's your children many gifts life is the day she glances — nutritious food, a warm around the room and noticcomfortable place to live, es her children have grown engaging books to read, up to become intelligent, clean sheets fresh from the talented and accomplished clothes-line, someone to adults. Precisely when and care when you're sick, dis- how that happens remains couraged or sad, someone somewhat of a mystery for to clap when you perform, life hurries both mother someone to get excited and child along the march when you make the team, of time much too quickly. get the degree or find your Then comes the hour when true love. the presents a mother offers Other gifts a mother of- mean more — like the gift fers are exquisitely personal of brothers and sisters. Let such as the use of your body me illustrate. for nine months while your This past holiday season child grows big enough to our whole family gathered be born, your sleep so your and my home was filled to child can breastfeed around overflowing with all the the clock, your privacy so people I love most. To me your child is never without it was not chaos but beaua friend, your sanity so your tiful noise — not work but child can experiment and an opportunity for the next make mistakes and your pa- generation to form eternal tience so your child can try bonds. My home had beagain and again. come an instrument to link Because you give with- hearts through the generaout the expectation of ap- tions. Like a pebble thrown preciation or return, when in a pond, the love I felt for the love is returned and my family kept expanding enlarged the gift comes in ways I could not possibly Help us build it! The Veterans Memorial was made to honor all veterans buried in the Spanish Fork Cemetery. It's running out of room for names and we need to build two more walls to be able to honor our local heroes. T he community came together to build the original monument 10 years ago. Now the Spanish Fork Veterans Council is asking for your renewed support. The total cost for this project is estimated at $20,000. Our veterans did not let our country down in its time of need*— let's not let them down now! Donations can be turned in to Thad Jensen, Glen Bradford or Steve Wilson of the Veterans Council. Every dollar counts! Thank you for your support! comprehend when I was a new mother so unsure of myself. As I walked through the rooms of my home that evening, I heard several sons and daughters singing at the piano while others played chess on the kitchen table. Cousins clad with plastic swords were dueling to the death in the play room while their younger siblings smeared whatever they were eating on their faces and clothing. Someone was crying while another was laughing. One grandchild was crawling through my legs on all fours while another was being rocked to sleep in the overstuffed chair. During one of those moments, my daughter looked around the room and suddenly noticed all her sisters smiling back at her. "Look, Mom," she said with sheer gladness, "all my sisters are here in one room!" It had been too long since we had that privilege. So she grabbed my husband snacking in the kitchen and asked him to snap a picture of all her sisters and me... for she is a mother too now and she knows that moments like these are fleeting. "Jhank you for giving me isisters," my daughter said as we embraced. Then each of her sisters added their own amen as we threw our arms around each other in a group hug. When your have a caring family you don't know where the devotion starts or stops — you just feel at peace. And brothers and sisters who love you — those were precious gifts I did not know my children even noticed that I offered them. They do. Janene Baadsgaard is the author of many books including 15 Secrets to a Happy Home, Families Who Laugh - Last, On the Roller Coaster Called Motherhood, Winter's Promise, Financial Freedom for LDS Families and The LDS Mother's Almanac. Read her past columns at www.janenebaadsgaard .blogspot .com. Courtesy photo BRAINIAC: Rosemary Jarman frequently does crossword puzzles to help ward off the effects "chemo brain." The reality of remission to leave my children, and how overwhelmed I was at the thought of someone having to sort through that pile of papers on my The next 500 words desk that never seemed you read in this column, to go away. The first two give or take a few, will thoughts demanded every mark the end of my career tear my tear ducts could as a cancer columnist. All produce, the last one, well in all, that's a really good that was just weird, but so thing because it means I very, very me. Now I find myself have run out of things to say about life with cancer. consumed in a crossword It has stopped being a dis- or sudoku puzzle every chance I get in a desperruption in my life. Some people ask me if I ate attempt to eradicate am in remission and, what "chemo brain" or what the heck ... I say yes. My some call the "chemo doctors haven't exactly fog." I actually drove my used those words. But that car to the Safety/IM stais mainly because it has tion for an inspection not sort of fallen out of fashion too long ago, just to realto say the word remission ize as I pulled into the bay in the world of oncology. that the car that needed the It's too gloomy. It suggests service was still in my gaan eventual return, does it rage at home. But my favorite story not? So you might hear comes from a young musithe acronym NED instead, which means No Evidence cian/chemo patient in New of Disease. You say toma- York who got a flat tire late to; I say as long as I don't one cold winter's night. He have to have chemo, I'm got out of the car and managed to jack up his car and happy! I am aware that PTSD put the spare tire on with(Post Traumatic Stress out freezing his fingers off Disorder) has been found or getting mugged, just to in some cancer survivors. realize as he was one foot That probably explains back into the vehicle that why I struggle with guilt he had changed a perfectly when I hear about other good tire and the flat one people who have actually was still sitting on the lost their life to the disease. wheel! So, everything is goBut fortunately, that's the extent of the emotional ing to be all right. I won't side effects that I have to blame myself for the tumor, but I will eat less sugar and deal with. Looking back on my more vegetables. I'll take initial diagnosis and the a hundred bad hair days hours that followed, I'm over a "no-hair" day, any struck by how certain I was day and I'll find a six-letter that I was going to die, how word for laugh before the desperately I did not want night is through. Cheers! 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