Nothing catchy for a title....just "hello" to all!

So updating the BLOG has been on my "to do" list for weeks now. I thought I'd sit down and update on our one year anniversary, August 11th, but that came and went.
Then the one year start of chemo, August 18th, that too came and went.
And as I was scrubbing toilets this morning, the thoughts of last year's Labor Day weekend, with the masses of men building our barn and re-doing our yard, and gutting our moldy basement, while the gals bombed our house cleaning, I smiled, thinking of how lucky I was to be cleaning it myself this year. Pretty weird and round about, huh?
But I got thinking of a whole lot more than that, too. Mostly of how incredibly lucky Troy and I are to have family, friends, and community so caring and supportive of us that they played with our boys all year to keep things normal for them and allow us rest and breathing space. Cooked meals for us to alleviate the burden of "what's for dinner?" when walking in the door (not to mention how that helped us so much financially too!) Knit or sent hats with so much love woven in to warm my bald head. Sent cards continuously....even throughout the summer...just to say you were thinking of me. Hired cleaners for our kiddo stained house. You don't even know how appreciated that was to not be smelling urine while throwing up! Gas cards, parking passes, baking cookies, supplying pizzas, sending our boys to camps this summer, weekly flowers, emails from my "cancer angels" I call you...(we will finally meet one of these days Steve), contact with long lost friends who always keep a special place in my heart even when we don't see one another for years; bikers, basketball players, and runners and all you who supported us through them in three very touching fundraisers that boosted my spirits even more and kept Bank of America from knocking on our door! I know I'm going to continually thank more and more and more in additional posts. But the greatest gift YOU ALL gave me was faith. That faith gave me fight!
Is it gone? I don't know. But in some ways, it doesn't matter. Cancer has changed me in how to live purposefully and appreciately. I appreciate my body and how strong it has been for me, and will continue to be, for whatever comes next in life. And I appreciate my faith I have in people and in God. And I appreciate the clarity cancer has brought me in that we all need each other, those you know and those you may not know.
So nuts and bolts.....
I'm feeling great!! We enjoyed every bit of our summer. I've returned to teaching at my 50% 1st/2nd grade job-share. And my hair is growing in, thick and soft. Look out Demi Moore, G.I. Jane works for me too!
Love to all!
Pam