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I Do Know This
Every now and then I think how I should update y’all on where we are with treatment, and often I hesitate because it’s the same old thing. Go to chemo, feel miserable for a few days, feel okay for a few days, go to chemo again. Wash. Rinse. Repeat cycle ad nauseam (pun intended). So…
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Accepting Reality
Sometimes it feels like I have to accept our reality all over again. And again. And again. After having such a good week, actually feeling well again, it is hard to face what our reality is. Chemo treatment number 14 is today, and I ask myself how I’m supposed to do this again. And again.…
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Let’s Take a Little Break
This past week I had no chemo and my kids had Spring Break… so we “breaked” and it was amazing to just live life. We almost felt normal again. We found a Native American settlement. And some boats. And some cannons. And camped out (only we had Gimli… MUCH easier than they had at Yorktown)…
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This Parenting Thing
A few weeks ago I reconnected with one of my former youth group girls for lunch. As we were catching up, the conversation inevitably turned to my family and how they were doing, and she about fell off her chair when we made the connection that my Ash is the same age she was when…
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Open Hands
Each day I think to myself, “Today I will write more about my journey, and it won’t include grief.” Notice how I’ve not written? Oh, friends, I ache to write the joyful news I wrote last week and stay there, joyous and celebrating! And I am. I am still so very, very thankful that the…