The first slap
This photo was taken the day after I was diagnosed, and it is my first bitch slap at cancer. I'm the one with the icepack symbolically placed on my boob. My teammates changed our team's uniform to pink at the last minute, and I came off the soccer field that night with one goal and a whole lot of love. Several of these women are my close friends, but they are all warriors, and they all helped me set the tone for this fight.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Big little things
I don't have anything really profound to say today. Instead, I just want to give a shout out to Craig, who I simply could not go down this road without. I'm no special fan of the musician Phillip Phillips, but his song "Home" has really hit home with me lately. This song always reminds me of traveling in Chile a year ago, listening to Nate's iPod as we road-tripped down to northern Patagonia. But it is also a reminder of everything that Craig is doing for me and with me. This includes things like taking the kids for an afternoon to let me catch up on my work, running to the store at 9:00pm to get me some ice cream because dammit we're out and I'm actually hungry, cooking dinner more than he used to, and just holding me when I need to be held. Some of these things may seem little, but they don't feel little when he does them. They feel huge. And I am grateful.
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Lara, you are blessed to have someone love you the way Craig does.
ReplyDeleteLara: That's really beautiful -- not just the music, but what you wrote. I'm so glad you made this post about Craig. He is the most wonderful son-in-law imaginable, and I'm so glad the two of you found each other.
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