yaaay, the first week after chemo is done!

Thank you everyone for your emails and phone calls. It has been very nice to hear from so many of you.. Kind of like having a graduation :)..

Well, during the week I was pretty tired and nauseated. But I went to work every day and taught my classes. Yesterday was another tired day, I spend half of the day in bed. I even had my mom bring me my lunch to the bed - I am soooo spoiled :). In the afternoon we went to our department picnic, and then to Deniz's ballet teachers house. The ballet teacher invited most of her students and their families to their house (something like 65 people), and Deniz was the only ballerina from the young kids class. So we felt like it was an honor to be invited and went. BUT it rained, like cats and dogs. I got soaked down to my underware (OK OK TMI). so we apologized and left after the first 10 minutes. But Deniz, who had been a little worried about this unknown "party" got very sad to leave, so as soon as we got home, she changed into dry clothes and went back to the party with Dan. It turns out they did the whole Hawaiian dances routine, and Deniz got to dance their "hula baby" dance all by herself! I am sad I missed it, I was so proud of her to get in front of a whole bunch of people, and sing and dance all by herself (usually they do the dance with at least 10-12 girls).

This morning I woke up with much more energy. We had a nice breakfast at home, then went to the Arches National park. My mom had never been to Arches, so I wanted to show it to her before they left. It was a beautiful day, perfect temperature, very nice hike! I am so glad we did it. I will post pictures later ( it is past midnight and I HAVE to sleep).

As soon as we got back we prepped dinner, and had Dan's father over (as every Sunday). After dinner, I put on my wedding dress, my wig and the girls wore their nice dresses so we had a short reenactment of our wedding (oh, yeah, today was our 8th anniversary). Dan and I danced a little, and then Deniz and I did the Hula baby for the grandparents.

As soon as I got the girls to bed, I graded some of the exams from last week, and entered them in the system. Not too bad, right?

I do have an occasional bone pain here and there, but nothing like last cycle - I guess Claritin did her number, this time. I finally enjoyed my dinner tonight (first meal that seemed to taste good for the last 10 days). I know we will have challenges of all kinds in life but please please please let us have put cancer in the past..

Wishing you all a great week!