August 7 2011...an update!

Hello all!

All is well with me! Just had my yearly mammo and check up and all is clear, yeah! 4 years out now, time is flying!

Emma is now 10 years old, going into 5th grade....she was finishing kindergarden when this whole cancer thing started!

So glad it is all behind me and that all is well!!

We are off tomorrow for a trip to Hawaii and Australia....Dave has to work in both places and Emma and I are doing what we do best, and tagging along!!! Its the middle of the night now, and here I am up blogging.....excited to go I guess!

Will try and write more on this blog, but with the days of Facebook, my blog has taken a backseat :(

Find my sisters blog, How The Hell Did I Get Here, very good and funny and sad too!!!

Chat soon, Kristin

Seven Months Since My Last Post.....Sorry Hilda!

Hello to all, and my new friend Hilda from Miami Florida, who has been following my blog! She was worried about me since I had not posted in months and called Dr.. Bartlett's office in Boston, to see if I was ok!! Nicole, the sweetest girl and our office manager, emailed me after they got off the phone, to tell me the story and give me Hildas email!! So I have a new friend in Miami, and I have started to update the blog once again!

Last time I posted, 7 months ago, Emma was just starting 3rd grade! She is now in the countdown, like 23 more days, till the end of school and she will be in 4th! Hard to believe! She was just finishing up kindergarden when I got the breast cancer diagnosis, 3 years ago!!

So now I can say I am 3 years out....I go from my April 2007 diagnosis! All has been good! MRI's are clear, next mammo in June or July should be fine too!! I have one more 6 month followup with Oncology, then I can go yearly! Radiation Oncology just became yearly! Yippee!!

Now, on a personal note, my Left boob (cancer boob, "leftie" as I call her!) is looking so good and perky, and poor "Righty" is bigger and droopier.....thanks radiation!! I liken it to putting a piece of chicken in the microwave oven....it comes out much smaller after all the radio waves cook it!!!
I may need to get a small reduction on the right and a bilateral lift.....good thing I know a good guy!!! Probably this Fall, in our new office, under general anesthesia! Hey, somebody must test out the new anesthesia machine, and it may as well be me!!! Maybe some tummy lipo too!!

Can't do it till after 9/18 though, because me and my friends, Kristin L and Laura K are teaming the Duxbury Triathlon, I am doing the 13.1 mile bike ride!! Laura will be swimmer, Kristin L runner!!! Got a real road bike, and Dave and I are going out this weekend, I will follow him!!

Anyway....I have missed blogging, and will start doing more soon!!! Photos to follow! I am on laptop, and cannot access my photos from here, even though they are in here! Hmmmm???

Heritage Dressage Show, Apple Picking, and Jumping Chance!

Busy October!!! We went apple picking last weekend, beautiful Saturday before the Sunday rain storm. Then this weekend we were at the Heritage Dressage Show in Hanover where Emma got a 3rd and a 4th place! We had a great day! Today at her lesson she was jumping Chance, the biggest horse in the barn! Mommy needs a valium! And another job to pay for all this horse stuff!

Busy September!

Have not posted since our trip to Niagara Falls, sorry about that!! Just a crazy September with a horse show, back to school, homework, commuting to school, U2 concert, leasing Chief (horse) once a week, lessons once a week....phew I am tired! Then add in all the usual stuff, working Fridays and some other days, the travel agent job, housework, laundry, animals. And on top of that I got the 'class mother' job! I needed that like a hole in my head, but it will be fun to be in at school and in Em's class occasionally! So I will throw a mess of photos up!!! The first photo is Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes walking into the U2 Concert! The some U2 photos, Emma horse show photos, back to school (yeah! ) photos and a great photos of Emma, Keagan and Charlotte!!

Niagara Falls Trip Aug 2009

We took a road trip to Niagara Falls, Canada Aug 10-13th. Had a great time!!! Long car ride thought, about 9 hours getting there and 8 home. Would rather fly up next time and rent a car! But as the saying goes, getting there is half the fun (who ever said that never spent more than 4 hours in a car or plane!!)We did manage to get 43 of the 50 states with the license plate game thought! Never did get Hawaii, but did get Alaska!!! Anyway, would recommend this trip for anyone! The Falls are amazing, and so much stuff to do there! We did The Maid of the Mist, Journey Behind the Falls, the Cable Car over the whirlpool, the walk along the class 6 rapids, then there was all the other fun stuff at Clifton Hill: Guinness Book Museum, Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum, the giant sky wheel, indoor mini golf, wax museums and ice cream and candy stores galore! Not to mention shopping! Enjoy the photos!

Emma's First Dressage Show!

Emma rode in her first Dressage show at Furnace Brook Farm, where she rides (lessons one day a week and lease of horse one day a week) She also took her first (of I am sure many) Dressage tests, which she did great on! She is so proud of herself, and as I sat and watched her and listened to the reader call out instructions, I myself was amazed at her! She is a great rider for only 8 1/2 years old! I actually had to buy a book the other day for ME from the U.S. Dressage Federation, so I can actually know what she is doing! I have to figure out how to upload videos to this blog so you can all see her riding live! I think I may need another job to support this horse habit of hers!

Various Photos and Stuff

Emma had her tonsils out on June 26th, she did great!!!! We spent the night at Waltham Children's Hospital (satellite of CHMC Boston), saw all my friends from the o.r. and recovery and anesthesia!! She is 6 days post op now and doing great, just a sore throat and taking Tylenol! She is a trooper! Also wanted to show some outside photos of the addition and the patio that Dave did! After 2 estimates for $13,000 and $11,000, he decided to do it himself!! And a great job he did!!!