second round...

here i am, sitting in my chair, enjoying my chemo drip, a little bored, so i decided it was time for an update.

1-hailey's ankle is doing much better. she has a brace she wears to the gym with me, but she is taking the full two weeks off of soccer and p.e. mostly because our wards young men and young women are going to the temple on saturday, and it made it really easy to get out of the soccer game!

2- sadie came to town last wednesday evening as jon left town to go to san diego for our yearly mission president seminar. as she arrived, my hair started to come out. by friday evening after a shower, it felt like it was coming out in hand fulls. i definitely had a couple of bald spots and didn't really feel like i could hide it any more. so we put a #3 attachment on the clippers and away she went. her first experience of shaving hair and it had to be her mothers. she kept saying, "this is just sick and wrong." we would laugh and then cry and then laugh some more. i agree with her. no daughter should have to do that to her mother, but i'm sure glad that she could be here to do it for me! i now wear a wig or a hat every time i leave my house. (i think i am going to try a scarf tomorrow. i think they look pretty, i just need to try it around my house so i know it will stay on.) it is really surprising to me how quickly i got used to looking at myself this way. i still have a lot more hair than i thought i would! sort of a mohawk and hair in the back. i am doing a slow shedding thing...some day i may tire of that and take it off, but i think it helps keep some heat on the top. i am very happy to still have eyebrows and lashes!

3- hailey traveled with jon to woodland last sunday and was his speaking companion in stake conference. i am so proud of her! everyone keeps telling me how awesome she was...and most important she FINALLY got to meet cameron cuvelier. cameron has been on her mind since his parents had dinner at our house last november and they decided that cameron and hailey should get married. she is all for it! :) she is also speaking with her dad this week in the peterson lane ward. she is a trooper. one of these days i will have to get back out there and be a companion to my husband. i just never know what to expect about how i will be feeling when we get these invitations. i have decided i am just going to expect to be feeling well.

4- megan came in to town last night. she got today off of work and knew i was having my treatment, so i am glad she could come and be with hailey today and me the rest of the weekend. :) we got an earlier start this time, but it is still an all day affair. and having to be here at 9:30 had us driving in rush hour traffic and we will probably be leaving around 4:30-5:00, bad traffic again. we are going to have to figure this out better. we are excited to be with megs for the weekend.

5- i got a letter on friday that my oncologist here at stanford was leaving. she accepted a new job where she will just be working with research. i was a little shocked. today i met a new doctor. another woman. i liked her. i think she is a keeper. :)

6- kristen celebrated her birthday this week. she turned 28. she thinks she is old. what will she do when she is 49? i sort of missed tod's birthday on the blog altogether this year with my surgery and everything. he turned 26. i love my kids! they are pretty wonderful!


7- jon had a little get away this past weekend to san diego. i don't think it really helps because you spend all of your time in meetings and such, but he was away from our boundaries for a couple of days, with permission :), and got lots of great training! he got to see the larkin's. i know he loved that!


8- the end. i am finished with my drips...i get to go home now!