{"id":2865,"date":"2011-04-02T16:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T23:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2014-08-15T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T04:41:28","slug":"ultimate-blog-party-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/ultimate-blog-party-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Blog Party 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ultimate<\/a><\/p>\n

This is my first Ultimate Blog Party with 5 Minutes for Mom<\/a>, and I’m excited about it. I’d love to meet more bloggers. \u00a0I love the interaction and sense of community that comes with blogging.<\/p>\n

I’m a breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed a year ago, just before my baby’s first birthday. A little over a year later and she’s almost two, and I’m almost done with treatment, but cancer is still part of my every day life. If you want to know what this blog is about, that’s a good start.<\/p>\n

\"chemo<\/a>

Why is it so difficult to take a self portrait where you don’t look stoned? Or is it just me with that problem?<\/p><\/div>\n

Before breast cancer, this was a mommy blog.<\/p>\n

Before I got pregnant, I swore I’d never let my blog turn in to a mommy blog. It’s still a mommy blog, but cancer, and parenting with cancer weighs in as well.<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with having a mommy blog, anyway? I write about what I’m passionate about. I write about my husband, too. But most of that passion is left off the page. No worries. This blog is mostly PG. But I can be snarky at times. Or sarcastic. Sometimes both at the same time.<\/p>\n

I’m also a full time college student trying to finish up a degree in Social Sciences while my husband finishes up his Master’s Degree in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. That means, with cancer, and a toddler, that I’m really, really busy. I don’t post every day. Sometimes not even every week. But when I do post, I hope it’s interesting, or makes you think, or even better, smile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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