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Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Am I a deal breaker?

Maybe you’ve tried to make a deal with God. Perhaps your negotiations took place on the bathroom floor, swearing that your lips would never touch a drop of tequila E.V.E.R. again if God would only let you live through the night. I seem to recall I swore I would never even look at Peter again [...]

Things you didn’t know you wanted to know…or not

I read a lot of blogs (although I’ve been bad about reading anything lately, blogs or books, because HEY! Christmas is the season of leaving everything to the last second and those little elf haters can all just bite me for planning all throughout the year) and the majority of them are written by women.  [...]

Swimming in the pink

This whole post was supposed to be about Peyton’s surgery.  Her port was scheduled to come out and I had planned to spend an anxious night, dreading and worrying about all the possibilities. But the surgery was postponed because Peyton developed pink eye. Yeah. Pink eye.  We can get through cancer and chemotherapy, radiation and [...]

The bad guy can’t win this story

Once upon a time there was a girl. A young woman. A college student. A generous, lovely, amazing person. She met a little girl who had cancer who lost her battle and it changed her life. This young woman began a crusade to make the lives of cancer children better if she could. She began [...]

Where are these guys when I need to move furniture?

**Updated to add: This article is running in the Tampa Tribune highlighting my crazy mad addiction to social networking and my internet…MY internet, ya’ll…so, go read it and check out that cute kid in the picture.** The kids and I…sadly no Peter…got to attend a Christmas party at the Children’s Cancer Center sponsored by the [...]