Enjoy!

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Oh Tanenbaum

Our family has a holiday tradition of picking out our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. This past Saturday, when we woke up and it was snowing out for the first time, we knew it was time to head out to the farmers market to pick out the family tree.

Adam and I have always liked little Charlie Brown trees, however, they usually are BIG TALL Charlie Brown trees. This type of tree is known as a Wild Balsam Fir and has long branches, short pine needles and lots of spaces between the branches. And the guys at the farmers market always have them.

The kids decide to don their snow pants, snow boots and all their snow gear due to the fact that we have about a

Another reason to be thankful

I received the following email from my friend who had breast cancer surgery on Tuesday.

I have good news! I’m out of surgery and the initial results were better than I ever anticipated. I had a lumpectomy and the margins were clean on the first cut and there was so sign of lymphatic invasion – which means that the whole thing must have been caught early and there’s no fear that it has spread to any other place in my body. I don’t know how much you know about the process, but they inject this blue liquid, which shows them which lymph nodes the cancer would have gone to first and then they test those nodes.

Those are the initial results, mind you. This week they will be doing a more intensive study to be sure – but I am thrilled and hopeful.

Plus, let me just say that outside of some steristrips and a scar – you can’t even tell I’ve had breast surgery. Amazing. No matter what the final results show, I’ll still be doing radiation and some sort of chemo I’m sure, but I’m really praying that it’s a much better scenario and perhaps a lighter load of treatment.

Everyone kept telling me that I needed to rest after surgery, but I haven’t been able to. I just feel so lucky, so blessed, and so happy, as I’ve honestly just been trying to prepare myself for the worst.

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving and appreciate so much that your checking in with me. I can’t tell how much it means to know that people care about this. It’s been an incredible month. I don’t think I’ll ever be the same.

I AM SO THANKFUL!

Tonight at dinner, our family went around the dinner table sharing what we were thankful for

Good Luck Today

Today is the day my friend goes in for surgery. No one knows what they will find until they go in. The best outcome would be a lumpectomy. The worst outcome would be a double mastectomy. Either way, she will have a long road ahead of her.

My thoughts and prayers are with you my friend.

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