Dear Reader:

When I , recently, got this card from Pam Stewart, I started jumping up and down. Years ago I got this card and kept it ” forever” by my computer. It always makes me smile… and especially these days it completely visually sums up the way I feel.

This new chemo pill challenge… literally feels like the ant and the watermelon. Somewhere along the way I lost my old card or perhaps paid it forward… regardless I have missed it a lot…definitely a God Wink Pam!

The stress of my load now is trying so hard to think of anything solid I can swallow and get down… cannot take ” Big Blue” without food. What a predicament! Never in my wildest imagination would I imagine waking up to such a dilemma???

I had that one wonderful day when I actually enjoyed that soup… so happy but the next day gone… so disappointing. And the watermelon 🍉 went back to being a heavy obstacle again.

But I will never give up hope…. not in my make-up!

I have started a two-minute gratitude practice when I wake up each morning. I re-set my mental clock with gratitude and that gratitude is all of you who keep encouraging me… together we will overcome.

So until tomorrow … amen Jo!

Today is my favorite day-Winnie the Pooh

Today is my favorite day -Winnie the Pooh

And yesterday was a benchmark day for Eloise… no training wheels!