Posted in Cancer Sucks, Family on Jul 24th, 2010
We had a trip planned for this summer. The perfect beach house picked out and reserved, private golf cart to travel back and forth to the beach, wonderful friends to share the experience… then cancer hit. Date #1 canceled and rebooked for later in July in case all I had to do was radiation. That [...]
Posted in Family on Jul 24th, 2010
My sis-in-law, Jen, and niece, Blakely, came to visit us last week. We would have loved to have the whole family, but had a blast with just the girls. It is always fun to have another mom in the house to help manage kids, cook dinner and clean up. Jen has got about the most [...]
Let me tell you a little story about our Father’s Day. Ethan and I have never been one to give gifts. I guess it is neither of our love languages. We speak of occassions, celebrate anniversaries with nice dinners, and enjoy cakes on our birthdays. So Mother’s and Father’s Day have not been much different. [...]
Posted in Cancer Sucks, Family on Apr 19th, 2010
The news today is that I will head back into surgery this Friday. I will have the port put in, but also have a little more tissue removed to be sure that we got enough clear margins around this nasty tumor. And those are the words from the doctor today; a nasty, aggressive cancer. It [...]
It has only been 2 weeks since an update and to some people’s expectations, apparently that is way too long. So let me catch you up — if you are there, surely someone is: mom? ann? bev?
Two weeks ago Audrey was dedicated at Harpeth Community Church. The other little baby on stage with us, well, [...]
Growing up in Houston, I have never had this much fun in the snow. Ok, I think I went skiing as a kid once, and remember a photo of me riding in a gondola, and it snowed once in 1987 and I ate snow off our pool lounger — but beyond that don’t remember [...]
Posted in Family on Jan 9th, 2010
It has been almost 3 full days of snow falling. We finally got everyone dressed to do some real playing. There wasn’t a lot on the ground and it was too dry to actually pack, but still fun.
Posted in Family on Dec 21st, 2009
My parents came up to spend Christmas with us this year. It has been fun doing a lot of the holiday activities together. Today we cut out the cookies that we have made all my life and tomorrow we will decorate them.The girls enjoyed helping Nana this year, and I enjoyed not having to do [...]
Posted in Family on Dec 10th, 2009
We celebrated our Thanksgiving this year with the Whaley side in Austin, TX. It should have been an easy trip. Fly out Wed and fly home Sat, allowing for most of the weekend to recoup and get ready for school again. However, since Alyssa had the flu the week of and Megan awoke with an [...]
That’s right. We are all superheros. I had planned out a great idea for costumes. The two little ones were going to be home-made hand-me-down costumes that I was very proud of. So I just had to think of something for Alyssa. Well, as it turns out, she can think on her own now. Dang! [...]
the Whaleys
We live outside of Nashville, TN. We have 3 beautiful girls, a son in heaven, and are currently in a fight with breast cancer. This is for those who choose to walk life next to us.