Me

What have I been up to you ask?  Well I thought I would give a quick update and actually post something besides pictures of the girls.

I'm still cancer free.  I had a scan in July...I know forever ago, I forgot to mention it.  Things are fine.  In fact things are so fine that my doctor told me I had to come back in 6 months but that I don't have to have a scan.  A year without a scan?  I know, so happy.  So I'll have a scan next July and then I'm done with scans forever.

A quick update on my mom.  She has responded soooo well to her chemo.  In fact at her last scan results appointment, her oncologist, who is my oncologist, who is not young, said to my mom "You have responded as well or better then anyone I've ever seen on this chemo regimen before."  Can you believe that?  All her tumors are gone and they actually said the R word to her (Remission).  However, she remains on chemo to keep the cancer away.  We are amazed and grateful.  Keep up the good work mom and thanks to everyone who has been praying, helping, thinking and asking about her.

So in August, I won Wicked tickets!  I'm so lucky.  They give away first 5 row tickets for $25/each in a raffle before each performance.  Jennifer went down with Kali the first week it opened and won tickets the first time they tried.  I wanted to win tickets so bad.   Then it was the olympics, then we had my sister in town and then the show only had 2 weeks left.  My neice Ashlee wanted to see it so we started trying.  Apparently everyone started trying the same time because it was crowded.  We tried 3 times and nothing.  Then we decided to gather as many people as we could and go down for the Saturday matinee.  We had Shane and I (the girls were there but you have to be 8 to enter), Jennifer, Ashlee, Cameron, his friend, Kali and Abbey (who isn't 8 either.)  I was thinking 'oh my gosh how many more times are we going to try and not win?'  The 2nd to last name called (10 people win 2 tickets each) was my name!  I won.  We were so excited.  It was sooo good and it was fun spending time with Ashlee and how much she enjoyed it since it was her first time seeing it.

What else have I been up to?  I threw a surprise 40th birthday party for Brigitte with her husband Tyler.  That was fun.  Then I helped with a baby shower for their new little boy coming soon.  Work is good and busy, nothing much to report there...it's work.

I got to babysit my nephew Max a couple of times while my brother and sister in law moved into a new home.  The first night it was just me and the 3 little ones (the girls and Max are 2 months apart.)  It was like having triplets...note to self and all others, don't have triplets.  Max was a little angel actually and was so good the whole time.  My girls however were little terrors that night.  The funniest part was when Max kept trying to steal their binkies.  Max doesn't take a binky but he decided he wanted to that night.  I was pretty sure his parents didn't want him sucking on someone else's binky, let alone a pink and purple one! The next time Shane was there and everything went fine and everyone was happy.

I think that's the update on Me, well and my mom and a few others.  Life is good and we're happy.