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Merry Christmas! Since my last post I’ve been working hard on, not only appreciating this Holiday season, but also appreciating the gifts I've received recently. If you've been reading this blog you know that things have been rough this past year... actually the past three years, but we'll just focus on this year. Things are still not quite how they should be, however, I see things transforming into what I hope is something much better. In the meantime, I'm trying to be patient while it all works out. So what I feel like is a reward for my hard work at trying to be patient I've received, not one, but two completely unexpected gifts this past month. The first one was getting tickets to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour which we soon found out, was all but a miracle. Now don't get me wrong, it took applying for a Capitol One card, pre-registering for Ticket Master weeks ahead of time, spending two long days "in que" waiting to click on the first seats that popp

I saw this picture pop up on our Google Home the other day and was reminded that it’s been 10 years since I went through cancer. I remember this Thanksgiving Day at my sisters house. I still had a few more radiation treatments, but I was done with Chemo and grateful that my taste buds were back so I could enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. I was also grateful for wigs since my hair was barely a half an inch long and grateful, of course, to be there with my beautiful girls. I remember wanting to take a picture to celebrate moving on, but couldn't find Nolan so I took it with just me and the girls. I also remember thinking that this might be better anyway, because, in all honesty, things weren't looking good for my marriage. Looking back now, I had a lot of things I was fighting for back then. I had gone through the previous year fighting for my life, I was now fighting to get back on my feet physically and mentally, and I knew if I wanted my marriage to work I would have to start fighti