I came up with a new saying today.... you can take away all my hair, but you can't take away my smile!!! I looooooove this picture :). I love to laugh and smile, and this picture just captures that so much. It was taken on Nov. 11th at our "early Thanksgiving" at my home. This is one of my "soul" sisters Cheryl. I have many "sisters", Cheryl and I only met 1.5 years ago, at our church, but we have a connection that is amazing. She happens to be the same age as my mom, but we have a lot in common. She is wonderful! I miss her. She has a boyfriend now! ugh.. so I don't see much of her anymore. She is spending the first weekend with me after I start chemo so I won't be home alone, another friend from church is taking my children for the weekend so I can rest.
My little sister Shawn's friend Janelle was supposed to come over today and cut my hair. The advisors on my cancer advisory board are telling me to cut my hair in stages. So today was suppossed to be stage number one. I am doing the two stage approach. She's coming back tuesday and this time she promises to bring her scissors (oops.. she forgot them!). I am getting it all chopped off tuesday, and then I will be shaving it on Jan. 3, 2007 the day before I do chemo, the one that is suppossed to make all of my hair fall out. That's my two step approach. I am going to miss my hair.... no lies there! I love having long hair, I look better with long hair, my hair is easier to manage long, the list goes on.. but the doctors tell me that the hair is going to go, and experienced chemo girls tell me, cut it now! Don't wait until it starts falling out in clumps in your hands, show cancer who the boss is!!!! So, I must let go of the long hair that I tried so hard to grow out. I think it's one of the many steps in this journey that is going to be difficult, but the Lord is good, and he has surrounded me with a wonderful church family, great friends and my family :) :) :). My blessings never end!