It's me, Charity

Brace yourselves for all of the random photos from the past month!  Before I got a pushmower, Bethy would come over and mow my lawn, while I hung out with the Madster and Emboz. I got Madi a Wedding veil for dress up and she was NOT as excited as i thought she would be! The only reason she is smiling here is because she was pulling it off of her head!  I hung up my mirror long ways in my hallway, I'm still working on perfecting my mirror pics but this one wasn't too bad! One day I will have a full length mirror, one day!  Before the oppressive heat hit, this is what my Friday nights looked like after I was done teaching. So relaxing and nice to be able to sit on my back patio and look out at my back yard!  Sunshine coming through the trees!  I regret mowing my yard for the first time in my flip flops. Rest in Peace flip flops. You served me well!  Audra and Cubbie came over one night for dinner and to see my new home! Cubbie was a...

A few weeks ago I found a lump. It's scary for anyone, but when you have very recently lost a loved one to cancer, and have the genetic history that I do, it's downright terrifying. I know that my odds for cancer are high, everytime I'm at a Dr's office and giving my family history you can see and hear the change in the person taking it down. Three Grandparents with cancer. Maternal Grandmother with Metestatic Ovarian Cancer. As one Dr said " You really didn't win the genetic lottery did you?" um no. Fact of the matter is, I've allready had a cancer scare. Two weeks before I turned 21, I was 14 hours away from my family, at my college in Florida, and I sat in the Dr's office and heard those words that you never want to hear. "With a cyst this size, it is almost definitely cancer." Thank God it wasn't. But I have never forgotten that moment, or what it felt like afterwards, walking back to my Dorm and feeling like the whole wor...