Thanksgiving::2007

This wasn't what I had envisioned when we packed up our lives in GA and moved closer to family. I expected to have the option to travel to Long Island for a Thanksgiving akin to those I had as a kid and young adult; not to have to skip the trip because of my radiation schedule. I thought that I'd get the chance over the summer to go to the beach a few times with the kids. I thought a lot of things: that we'd have moved into our own home by now, that I'd still be wearing my hair in a pony tail, that the kids wouldn't have had a Mom fatigued with health issues.

I'm still finding a lot to be thankful for. It was easy for me to race through my mind the bullet point list of things to be grateful for, big and small, despite all we've endured. The house is under contract, radiation is nearly over (slight set back on my schedule last week) and we're going to get to move ahead on the life we decided to create here. We spent better part of this year basically on pause.

Everything that we each have to be thankful for this past year is what I am choosing to concentrate on. There were new additions to the family (Caroline and Rebeca), new jobs, new homes, good health and good prognoses, young people starting college... life marches on and that's how we really want things to be.