Blogs Posts on "Living In The Aftermath"

Three years by Hope4Peyton on Jul 13, 2009Today marks three years to the day that Peyton was diagnosed with Leukemia. Our most craptastic anniversary. Over the past 36 months, I’ve kept a Bible verse in the header of this site. It was three years TODAY that verse came into my life. I w...

A new place by Hope4Peyton on Jul 9, 2009Last month, just moments before we were getting ready to say goodbye to our Florida life I was musing to Pete about how fast it all seemed to be happening. Buying the new house, packing the old house, the end of school, the going-away party…it...

My little SuperGirl! by Hope4Peyton on Jul 1, 2009I was going to write this whole post and leave a little added blurb about Peyton’s clinic visit today. But it deserved space all it’s own. Counts were INCREDIBLE!! Still cancer free. Possibly the best three words ever. I so want to get...

A guilty mother’s work is never done by Hope4Peyton on Jun 29, 2009My worries about Peyton’s upcoming clinic visit and my excitement about the upcoming trip to Chicago for BlogHer collided in my dreams. I dreamed that she relapsed and I couldn’t go on my trip. I was suddenly plunged back into the world o...

WHO packed the crazy and the paranoia in the same box!? by Hope4Peyton on Jun 27, 2009Peyton looked like crap last night. Walking through the store where she started complaining that her tummy hurt, I looked at her. REALLY looked at her. Her skin? Sheet white. Her eyes? Deep grey circles under. Just overall feeling like a bucket of po...

In Memoriam by Hope4Peyton on Jun 21, 2009Father’s Day….a day to send love to my father, Peter’s father, and Pete…to grandfathers and uncles, cousins and friends. But also a day to send love to some other fathers I love who will be hurting on this day…this day m...

Rice and Buttons by Hope4Peyton on Jun 2, 2009I’ll bet you’re thinking there’s some exquisite inside joke in that title. And there probably is. But that’s not what this post is about. This is about the most infuriating bowl of rice I’ve ever encountered. I’ve...