Random thoughts

Sluggish today…it is grey and chilly out after a few days of sunny 80 degree weather. Hard to get going.  Sitting and listening to Megan practice piano before we go to the bus stop.  Beauty and the Beast right now.  She plays so beautifully!  She always wanted to play.  I can remember a tiny Megan about 3 years old asking if she could play piano.  My answer then was sure while wondering where she would come up with something like that.  By age 4 , it continued so we bought an electronic keyboard for her birthday.  She would sit and hit the keys pretending to perform for us.  At 5, she was able to finally get lessons.  We rented a piano after 6 months then purchased it at 1 year.  She played in her first recital last June at 6 years old playing Mozart.  This year she will be playing Fur Elise by Beethoven.  She is just so beautiful in all of her 7-year-old glory playing like someone much more experienced.  Of course a you tube video will be posted just like last year!

I am so tired.  Was up late looking into the different character meals at Disney World.  I also added some links to the sidebar of the page.  The first is the breast cancer risk assessment tool.  It is very easy and quick to answer but extremely important.  The other is from the breast cancer site and claims to offer free mammograms for a simple click.  The advertisers pay the cost.  I figure it is worth the click if indeed it could help someone who otherwise may not be able to have the screening.  Early detection saves lives..period! The last addition is a link that shows the proper way to perform a breast self exam.  This is how I have always found my lumps.  No one knows your girls better than you!

Take control of your own health!

Why not plan a vacation

What do you do when everything thing around you is chaotic? Why plan a vacation of course!  Disney World here we come February 2013!  Something nice to look forward to and plan for. Going to stay in the resort at Animal Kingdom.  The kids will be able to overlook the Savannah before going to bed and as soon as they wake up.  How cool is that!  Hell you only live once right….this is what credit cards are for!

This is all perfect timing.  A good distraction for me now and an even better one for the girls after the surgery.  I do think things could be rough for at least the month of July and probably early August.  But the end of August will be the 6 month out mark when you can start to book all the character events.  The perfect thing that we may need by then to help us all start to turn the page from the mastectomy.

Disney really is a magical place.  We took the girls last year and were ready to go back as soon as we got home.  I was so thrilled to see the joy in my daughters faces the first time we sat for the daily parade, especially Megan.  She was so excited…we all still sing the song, “Celebrate a dream come true…”.  I never understood those folks who went every year until we finally went.

How perfect!  Even when they see mommy at her worst, I will be able to keep their heads filled with the memories of our last years Disney Trip while filling them with the excitement of the one to come.  Thanks Frank!

No regrets

I woke up yesterday to the news that there had been a terrible accident in the community.  Three local girls, seniors in the high school were riding together in a car that collided with a truck.  Two of the girls were injured and one killed.  A beautiful 18-year-old girl who should be preparing for her prom and graduation.  Instead, her parents prepare for a funeral.  I did not know this young girl nor do I know her family yet my heart still breaks.

Just another reminder of how fragile life is.  In the blink of an eye it can all be taken away. I can not even imagine the pain those parents feel.  I made sure to hug my girls a little harder last night and to be honest drove just a little slower today. It also helps to reinforce my decision to do everything I can to avoid breast cancer! There are some who think prophylactic mastectomy is just crazy.  I feel that view is…guess it is all in how you look at it.

It is not always cancer or sickness, you could  just be in a car driving home or standing on a corner.  Life is short and unpredictable.  Make sure to hug your kids today, tell your family you love them!