When I think of all the places my family has travelled, all the beaches my children’s tiny toes have touched, I am in awe of all God has done. What a precious, blessed life we live as a military family. With this life comes sacrifice but so many other families sacrifice more than we will… Continue reading Sand Between Their Toes
It feels weird to say those words. I had cancer. Not I have cancer. It’s over, my 9 months of hell is over and it feels surreal. It’s a bit anti-climactic actually. They amputate your breasts, you struggle through 6 harrowing rounds of chemo, radiate yourself 25 times and commit to never forget to taking… Continue reading I Had Cancer…
I’ve learned a few things about cancer over the past 6 months. Some much needed lessons and most hard to accept. 1. God gave me this cancer for a reason. Yes, I wholeheartedly believe that. Am I mad? Yes! Heck yes, but mostly not at God. I know that He has a much bigger picture… Continue reading Some Truths About Cancer
Breast cancer patients suffer symptoms of post traumatic stress. We try our best to focus on our blessings, our God, our families, our support networks but we have a constant internal struggle against this life-altering disease. I call it living on the edge. Not in the sense of the word where you may drop everything… Continue reading Living on the edge…
Disclaimer: Stop reading this post if you are looking for rainbows and bunny rabbits. This post is real and raw and full of unfiltered thoughts that I need to put into words. So that I remember, so that others can understand how unbelievably hard this trek is and so that maybe, somewhere, someone who is… Continue reading Chemo – Week 1
We had a rough morning. It started out great, I was up a full hour before the kiddos, an event that doesn’t happen very often around here lately. Showered, clothed and coffee in hand I was able to fit in my devotional and catch up on jotting down some of my 1000 Things. But somewhere… Continue reading Mayhem
Yesterday was my birthday. Birthdays aren’t all they’re cracked up to be sometimes. One year I lost my birthday altogether as we traveled back to Korea from Hawaii. With the flights and the time changes we lost almost an entire day. I cried. On the plane from Honolulu back to Seoul. How spoiled rotten am… Continue reading Thirty-Four
Let me start from the beginning. Many people have asked me about my diagnosis and surgery. And you cannot Google double mastectomy without getting thousands of links to Angelina Jolie and her story. I am not her. Darn it. A little over a month ago I found a lump on my left breast. A walnut-size… Continue reading The Beginning
I put my bra on today. Most women don’t think about this step of dressing each morning. Sometimes we do it half asleep as we’re kicking our husbands out of bed and longing for that first hot cup of coffee or sometimes we do it after a nice long shower and an invigorating run in… Continue reading I Put On My Bra Today
Well it’s been 2 months since my last post and there is so much to report. We have been blessed beyond measure here in Belgium and we could not have asked for a better place to move. Just a few of our recent blessings since arriving here 2 months ago. A HOME – During our… Continue reading Blessed Beyond Measure
Newlywed Nomads 