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Nursery Rhyme Re-Write
Yesterday after supper, Bri was cleaning up our little two-year-old. During our meal we always share what we’ve learned and done that day, so Audrey was telling her daddy all about what she had learned. “Daddy, Humpty Dumpty sat on wall.” “Oh, really? Then what did he do?” “Had a faaaallllllll.” “Then what?” She looked…
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Delving Into Shower-World
Now that our oldest has decided to go and grow up on me, he’s also shown an affinity for taking showers. Swimming lessons taught him how much he loves to dump water on his head, and showering is an opportunity to be completely covered in water, head to toe. Not to mention it is something…
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Holding Off Treatment
Yesterday I arrived at the cancer center for my herceptin and cyberknife treatment. (A quick refresher: herceptin focuses on a protein in my cells. That protein, HER2, was present in my tumor. The idea is to kill off that protein in my body. In doing so, it has been proven to reduce risk of recurrence…
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Where Were You?
I was at a bagel shop meeting with my discipler, Angie P., when friends told us what had happened. Pregnant with our oldest child, I couldn’t fathom the disaster of 9/11. I can still feel his little body moving underneath my hand, a hand that automatically rose to my belly when I heard of the…