I was getting ready for Get Hitched Give Hope, an amazing, annual charity event that pairs wedding planners and vendors with happy couples planning their nuptials, and the proceeds benefit two organizations that support people living with cancer: the Young Survival Coalition and the Dream Foundation. It was my biggest formal event of the season, and the driving Seattle rain had just gone horizontal.
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My girl got a haircut. Those beautiful, long, golden locks were cut and donated. She is so proud.
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2014 was full of big changes and new beginnings for us. Hunting for a new home was stressful, but we knew we'd be ok wherever we landed as long as we had each other.After we finally got moved and settled in, we explored our new neighborhood. I had some thoughts about the fourth anniversary of [...]
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My kid says some funny stuff, and every year I post a round-up of some of her best lines. enjoy. Ambition G: I can be anything I want when I grow up? Me: Sure, what do you want to be? G: A unicorn Me: wanna watch a movie? G: No. I must rule the world. [...]
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My daughter recently competed in her first chess tournament. I was more nervous than she was. She's only 5, and I worried about sportsmanship, I worried about whether she would have fun. I worried about whether she would get bored, or scared. She was just excited that she would get to play chess: Five games of [...]
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A couple months ago, after a Tour de Pink training ride, my friend and fellow cancer survivor, Karen Lawson, posted a selfie on Facebook, and wrote, "Love these legs and the 57 HILLY miles they just carried me up." I was surprised when my eyes welled up at reading her post. In the nearly 5 [...]
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