Posts under ‘living in the aftermath’

Today marks three years to the day that Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia.
Our most craptastic anniversary.
Over the past 36 months, I’ve kept a Bible verse in the header of this site.
It was three years ago TODAY that verse came into my life.
I was curled up in one of those awesomely comfortable hospital chairs *snort*, just [...]

Last month, just moments before we were getting ready to say goodbye to our Florida life I was musing to Pete about how fast it all seemed to be happening. Buying the new house, packing the old house, the end of school, the going-away party…it just seemed to be whirling by at the speed of [...]

I  was going to write this whole post and leave a little added blurb about Peyton’s clinic visit today.
But it deserved space all it’s own.
Counts were INCREDIBLE!!
Still cancer free.
Possibly the best three words ever.
I so want to get this made into a shirt for her to wear. EVERY. DAY.

Yeah. My kid is that awesome!!

My worries about Peyton’s upcoming clinic visit and my excitement about the upcoming trip to Chicago for BlogHer collided in my dreams.
I dreamed that she relapsed and I couldn’t go on my trip. I was suddenly plunged back into the world of chemotherapy and treatment and being a fulltime nurse and you know what I [...]

Father’s Day….a day to send love to my father, Peter’s father, and Pete…to grandfathers and uncles, cousins and friends.
But also a day to send love to some other fathers I love who will be hurting on this day…this day made bittersweet by the loss of one who made this day special.
To Mat, Danny, Dave, Dirk, [...]