Today I am teaming up with The Lovin Sisters to talk about Breast Cancer Awareness and Support. I answered some questions in stories about what women need to know in terms of staying on top of their breast health and how they can support someone through treatment. One of the top questions I was asked…
Cancer Gift Guide: The Kids
I’m back today with another cancer gift guide for you! It feels fitting to have this post be about the kids – the very reason for my 2 month blogging hiatus – because if you’ve had to manage cancer treatment and kids at the same time you know it can be tough. At the time…
Cancer World Map Tote
Here’s a little backstory on the Cancer World Map Tote. It was based from a Friendship Map that I created for my college friend group. We all turned 40 this year! We planned a girls trip and I knew I wanted to gift them with something meaningful and representative of our 20 year friendship. I…
Cancer Gift Guide: Mastectomy
If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, chances are you’ve had to make a decision about surgery – either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. I chose to have a bilateral mastectomy (meaning I had both of my breasts removed). It’s such a personal decision and not one that I took lightly. By choosing a…
Redefining Love
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, Steve and I had been married for 10 years and 2 months. We had already weathered a few storms together, including job loss, two miscarriages and the deaths of my father and both of my grandmothers, as well as his grandfather. We knew life could hand out downs,…
Travel: Take The Trip
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, the first thing my then 8 year old daughter asked me was “Will we still get to go on our trip and have Christmas?” Knowing that our family vacation to Destin, Florida was just a week away, I had wondered about that too. I asked my cancer surgeon…
Cancer Gift Guide: Chemo Recovery
Cancer treatment is typically a long and harrowing experience. Chemotherapy infusions is one of the most well-known aspects of treatment and getting through them can be rough. I recently posted a chemotherapy gift guide with items that helped me handle infusion days. But not only will you need help getting through multiple chemotherapy infusions, recovering…
The Kids are Okay
My mom died two months before I turned 8 years old. Just two months after my oldest daughter turned 8, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then I became a parent with cancer. Life sometimes feels like reliving past trauma in a cruel pattern, only with slight variations. As I child, I spent countless hours…
Cancer Gift Guide: Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy. One of the big scary words that comes along after you hear the words “you have cancer.” Something you may not know about it is, there are countless types of chemotherapy. How someone is effected by chemo will depend greatly on the person and also on which type of medications, infusions and treatment plans…
Bright Box Collaboration
I am thrilled to be partnering up with Bright Box to bring you this curated cancer gift box, to help support women who are currently facing a new cancer diagnosis or health challenge. Shea, the owner of Bright Box, is a gifting expert. She and her Bright Box team send Happy Mail to people everyday!…