Peyton - Will you get me a glass of water?
Me - Get it yourself.
Peyton - pleeeeease, mama? I’m tired today *makes very put-upon face*
Me - (grumble grumble grumble but gets up to get the requested beverage) You know if you just pull up a chair you can get a drink whenever you want
Peyton - (mumble [...]
Posts under ‘Peyton’
My kids are all the thanks I need
Anatomy of a nervous breakdown
Since the moment Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia we were taught that everything in our lives depended on one piece of paper.
Counts.
It told us if she needed blood products.
It told us how strong or weak her immune system was.
It told us if her liver wasn’t working properly, if her body was fighting infection, if anything [...]
Never thought I’d quote the Rolling Stones, but they got that want/need thing right
It’s hard when you come eye to eye with traits in your personality you wish didn’t exist. Maybe you know they’re there and you work around them…sometimes better able to control them than others.
Friends and I have talked about the effort it takes to teach our kids, and especially our ones who are sick, to [...]
It’s hard work being this crazy
I have struggled with whether or not to share this much insight.
Because I don’t want you all to really think I’m crazy. But, honestly, have I ever really tried to play up the image of perfect sanity?
Nope, I don’t even try to fake it.
I can talk about my crazy. I can divulge some of the [...]
Yeah, I cried…a LOT
We’re breathing again…it is DONE. We got to the hospital at 7:30 for Peyton’s surgery at 9 and the waiting was agonizing.
Peyton? Totally unaffected.
She did ask me several times if I would be able to stay with her and every time my heart puddled a wee bit more. She had her daddy at her side [...]
