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First, I have to say thank you for all the amazing comments after the last blog.  Wow!  All that support, encouragement, love, and vulnerability had me laughing out loud and wistfully pondering big questions about life.  Thank you guys!  At some point I may actually get around to responding individually because there was so many…

It’s definitely been an insane couple of weeks…  Ups and downs…  Pain and joy…  A little bit of everything.  I guess that’s life, eh? On a high note, I am absolutely LOVING our new home in Connecticut.  We’re slowly settling in.  Finally unpacking the last few boxes.  Making this house our home.  Getting to know…

So the latest news on the cancer front is that my tumor markers have risen. Bummer, I know. But i’m not gonna freak out. I’m just using it as a catalyst to get myself back on track. The CA 27-29 is a blood test that monitors tumor markers in breast cancer patients. It is far…

We made it to Connecticut! Hooray! Miss M and I are settling into our temporary home at the hotel with hubby. It’s not so bad living in a hotel (free breakfast, swimming pool, maid service). But I’m itching to get into our actual home with our belongings organized and all my kitchen stuff at my…

The time has come to say goodbye.  Miss M and I officially leave Ohio this Friday.  July 26th.   Wow. The days now are full of goodbye hugs, tears, promises to stay in touch…  I’m saying goodbye to the cornfields, the farms, the wide open sky…  To lots of fantastic people who made living here…

So much going on.  Where do I even begin?? Let’s start with the good news…   Hubby got a new job!  And it’s in Connecticut!  After 2 years in Ohio we’re finally moving back East!!  Back to the ocean…  Back to the family…  Back to the hustle & bustle of the northeast…  We’ll be settling…

I realize it’s been a while since my last post. That usually happens when i’m traveling. Too busy visiting my peeps, having fun, and living life. Miss M, grandpa, and I just spent a week in Massachusetts visiting with my mom’s family (and all our friends who are essentially family). We went up to Provincetown…

Living with metastatic breast cancer is such an odd reality…  (As I imagine living with any chronic or life threatening disease is)…  You’re caught in a place between life and death.  Aware the days may be numbered. Facing your own mortality changes you. I am now supremely aware of the passing of time.  I don’t…