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Thank you so much to everyone for your kind comments and cards, emails and outpouring of love and support - it’s been overwhelming and unbelievably comforting for me an for my family and I have been touched by each and every person…thank you.

My dad’s results came back from the biopsy and he is CANCER FREE!!! The overwhelming feeling of joy and relief is more than I could muster writing about at first so it took me a couple of days - we’ve all been enjoying the relief and happiness and thank God every moment.
On the […]

My dad had his prostate surgery - he’s home recuperating and we’re all waiting for his pathology report to come back so we can take that ‘deep breath’…since the surgery we’ve all gotten horrible chest colds and my son now has strep and an ear infection so we’re all just a big ol’ mess to […]

I love the Christmas holidays. I love how happy the kids get, especially Danny who absolutely, 1000000% believes in Santa Claus and lives, breathes and enjoys all things Christmas the entire month. Not to mention, he’s probably written Santa at least 50 letters…”Exhibit A” - Danny writing letter #50 this weekend:

This weekend we […]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
Regardless of life’s hiccups there are always so many things to be thankful for - I know I have many…
I am off to start preparations for the Thanksgiving meal tomorrow at my house. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday surrounded by family and friends and much love and happiness.

This weekend was the first good weekend in a long while…no cold, no headaches, no sick kids, no other familial issues, etc. But the best part - my buddy Betsy came over with goodies from SAFF (since she was one of the lucky ones that went) and she brought yummy home made cookies […]

Life has a tendency of being a pain in the ass…there is no other way to say it - no other way around it - it is what it is…For the most part it’s wonderful, but we have those bumps in the road (granted sometimes they feel like boulders, not bumps) but then we have […]

Today is a GREAT day. My grandmother just left her oncologist’s office and it appears the oral chemo is working - her bloodwork is back and it shows improvement and she’s regained 3 of the 15 pounds she lost prior to treatment. I’m so very thankful to all of you for your prayers and […]