Relay for Life

Dear friends,

On Saturday, June 21^st, my family and friends will join me in West Sacramento’s Relay for Life where we will walk for 24 hours to raise money for the American Cancer Society.  This has been a tough year. My extended family saw two deaths this year due to Cancer.  I was lucky. I survived breast cancer and am enjoying remission. I don’t take a minute for granted.  This is my second year doing Relay for Life and it’s become an important cause for myself and my family. I imagine many of us have been affected by Cancer in one way or another. I recently attended a Survivor’s dinner where I met a woman whose been in remission for 40 years.  I got excited to hear those words. But my heart dropped when she said she was battling her 8^th diagnosis.  Imagine being diagnosed 8 times with Cancer.  But thanks to research she is still here, fighting.  If you have a moment, please support the American Cancer Society. Every dollar raised hopefully gets us a little closer to finding a cure and more birthdays.

If you wish to make a donation to Team Ladybugs, you can go here:  http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=58318&pg=team&team_id=1534936

Or perhaps you would like to join us?  If you're local, please come on out. There will be lots of vendors selling food, and other fun trinkets. I’ll be selling homemade Posole, pan dulce and Mexican chocolate. Hope to see you there.

Relay For Life of West Sacramento

Saturday, June 21, 2014

9:00am

Our Lady of Grace School

Holding Onto These Moments

Hi friend, how's it going?

Work
It's been a busy month. Lots of stuff happening at work. You know I've been at my job for 24 years. There's lots of downsizing and even though it's scary to even think about starting a new job, I decided to have my resume professionally done. I was hoping to meet with the person and "talk" about my experience but alas everything is done "on-line." I knew this... but I guess I'm just old fashioned.  I probably could have written it myself but wanted a fresh perspective.  I'm a procrastinator and so having this done is a  huge step in taking care of my future.

Exercise
I've been doing my workouts steadily.  I love that I'm using weights and pushing myself.  Am I losing weight? Not like I want but I've lost 13 pounds since my last chemo which was in February 2013.  I'll take it.

I ran a 5k with my daughter.  Man, I accidentally recorded 10 minutes of my run and all I could hear was my heavy breathing.

 

Here I am a hot mess.  We ran on the levy which was pretty cool. Notice my hair is growing like a weed? Yea, it's a challenge each morning to calm the curls.  I found myself literally in tears out of frustration but then I realize how silly that was. After all, my grandson was graduating middle school and I have a new granddaughter. I'm extremely lucky.

I imagine the tears came from fear.  When you're so happy that it scares you. I just want to hold onto these moments. 

 Tonight I do a fitness test. I so hope I can run a mile faster than 12 minutes.  

Later gators. Hope you're having an awesome day. Gotta run. My little grands are all finishing up school and I'm planning a little grad party. We're going to swim in the back yard, then we'll watch FROZEN in the backyard on the projector and then have banana splits.

Yea, it's going to be epic.  I can just hear my granddaughters.... LET IT GO, LET IT GO. That move is carved in my brain. Guess I'm not alone, right?