Do you know what we did to celebrate Monday’s news of continued NED (NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE–WOO!)? Brad, Maren, Greta and I — we all played Lego in the basement together. It was a perfect evening. There was no feasting, no phone calls/updates (love the blog!), not even any dancing. It was a normal-busy-family-weeknight.  We finished...

I really felt good about this one. A bizarre peace,  you could say. Last week I was driving my mom and Greta as we were heading for a lunch date, and Mom said, “I can tell you are scanxious about the upcoming scan.” I kind of wrinkled my face and said, “Meh, I don’t think so.  I know it’s coming but I’m not stressing over...

Well folks, Monday is scan day. Here’s how I envision the day going: Wake up pre-dawn. Pray.  Run.  Pray. Drive to hospital for PET scan.  Read and pray during the PET procedure from 7-9am.  Say hello to my hospital people. Go to Dr. Clean’s office for appointment.  I started seeing Dr. Clean last month because my neck/shoulders/upper back were/are...

Now that Maren is off to school every day, Greta and I are getting a lot of one-on-one time.  She still gets sad when Maren gets on the big yellow bus, but she doesn’t wail, so I consider that a success. I try to schedule our days so that we roll at a meandering pace.  We have time to get the little kid-sized cart at the grocery store (one of her very most...