Finally it's over!

Today feels like Amanda is over her cancer! She got the all clear from her oncologist! I felt relieved. Her pain from radiation is subsiding and her new skin is starting to show it's new pink color. Thank-you God and the doctors and to Amanda for putting up such a huge long battle for allowing me to walk this path with her. Time to celebrate life, share the knowledge of what we have learned, to share this experience and help others along the way.

Last two days we had a storm blow in with rain, ice, snow and strong winds. Today the winds calmed down, the sun peeked out and melted some of the ice, that is what it feels like for me after this cancer. Almost a year in a storm just to see the sun shine again.

I just got 40 fat quarters of beautiful fabric to make more bandannas! Thank-you! I must post off another card to let them know how much this means to me and to Amanda.

Keep the faith and the hope.

Now what???

Amanda has finished her last radiation treatment this past Monday! Hurray! I imagine a year of your life with medical treatments being a priority, then your done and now where does one start getting back into a routine. I don't think that any one can just pick up from last year. The changes in ones' body, the experience of fighting cancer and the personality change as well. It kind of reminds me of after holidays, the meal is finished, the presents have been opened, the tree taken down, everything packed away. Now what??? Just take time to heal.

I received some Thank-you cards in the mail from receipients from the bandannas I sent off. I want to say Thank-you back for taking the time to send a note.

I am just trying to make this Halloween a bit more fun for my grandchildren this year. I made them cute seasonal joke books (Q: What kind of instrument does a skeleton play? A: tromBONE) with pun on words and a 'broom' bag filled with special goodies. Made my grandaughter a Star Trek shirt yesterday, she thinks it's perfect and that is fine with me.

I am slowly getting back into quilting (winter project) along with making one to auction/sell tickets to fundraise Walk for the Cure next year, binding quilts for Serendipity ( a group of women who make quilts for kids in need) through the local guild here.

I plan to make Christmas a little extra special this year for my family, last year seemed it just came and went with really no special effort on my behalf. I want to bake cookies, play Christmas carols, light touring, attend the tree festival, go and listen to chiors sing with the family.

Blessings to you from me!

Thankful Gifts

Another Thanksgiving has past, we remembered what we are thankful for and blessing those less fortunate than us. With turkey and a few trimmings left over, perhaps making a homemade soup is on the agenda this week. Gifts of fabric came in the mail this past week, I am grateful for them, cards of Thanks will be posted later today along with a couple of requests for bandannas which I am happy to oblidge to send. I woke up to loud meows of my cat (who selfishly thinks I'm the only one that can tend to her needs), the scent of fresh brewed coffee and a cool, crispy, frosty morning. The leaves have changed and fallen and I raked them up in a pile for the grand kids to come along a take a jump, they are just getting too old for that now for they did not take no interest. I will get them bagged and use them for mulching my shrubs. The crop behind our property was combined over the weekend, hope the harvest went well and no injuries. The land and the trees has changed once again, just sitting in a dormant stage waiting for something new , constantly changing and so we must do so too. Gifts are always put in our lives, it's what we do with them that counts. Many blessings!

Bandanna Bandits

The team Bandanna Bandits, who ran/walked this past Sunday CIBC Run For The Cure did an amazing job of fund raising. Way to go Bandits!

Thanksgiving is coming up this weekend and normally once everyone is seated we start one by one giving thanks for what we are grateful for and then have grace. I thought about not having this ritual and just give thanks. Amanda had a really tough year, I'm not sure what she has been thankful for, not her port, not chemo, not surgery, not radiation, the driving, and not all those appointments. But I know I am thankful that they found the tumors, they removed the tumors, the medications, the treatments so that the cancer doesn't come back, the most caring people, the friends & family and the good that came out of it and the good things yet to come. I am thankful she is here to share a turkey dinner with us cancer free.

Give Thanks and Happy Thankgiving and God Bless!