last few weeks

Hello,

The last two weeks have been busy but it could of been a disaster. Our daily schedule has been adjusted but we have survived a few obstacles due to the weather but that make us stronger! Our hearts go out to those who have lost everything.

October 20, 21, 2012 weekend was wonderful. My birthday was on Saturday the 20th and my husband and kids gave me a new Nikon camera which all of you know I enjoy taking alot of photos. (which I need to start scrap booking again).

On Sunday the 21ST was a great day! The walk for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer through American Cancer was on. It was a beautiful weather day. The walk was along the water and the turnout was Hugh!
My team Bossom Buddies walked at 10:15 instead of 11:00. My daughter had a soccer game to attend and several of my friends had their kids activities to attend as well. Gene and AJ weren't able to attend since AJ had a hockey game around the same time. We have been lucky in the past as far as conflicts. It was a hectic morning but was amazing to support this great cause! Thank you to all who donated! It was crowed! This location for the walk alone raised $348,779.42! We will  back next year!

October 29 - November 9, 2012  It was scary to know Storm Sandy was coming to our state! We pre-pared as much as we could. We had extra food, cleaned up the deck and put away all materials that could fly outside, filled our propane tank for the grill to be able to cook, washed all our clothes, and made sure we had several batteries for our flash lights.
We couldn't believe it. We lost power at 3:20 in the afternoon on Monday before the storm was really bad. Wow, in the last few years we loose power right away. As the evening approached and there was  no heat and lights, it did start to get dark. We played monopoly for a few hours and made the best of the night. under lanterns We heard the noise of the wind but lucky we had little rain. Our house is surrounded by trees and we were scared of them coming down. At one point, Gene asked for the kids and I to go outside to experience how loud the wind is and to see the sky. It was cool experience but never want to have this again!We moved the kids mattress into my room to sleep.

We were very fortunate and didn't have any trees fall down except for branches, wow we were shocked. The next day we saw several large trees and power lines down around our neighborhood. We were able to get a generator by the afternoon. That was a great help to run the refrigerator, have some lights and heat! We were out of power until Friday evening. The kids didn't have school all week. It was a long week without power but we made it.

The second storm of snow came a week later. This is crazy. The weather man said in my area we will have rain and some sleet. Wow they were way off. We got 8 inches of snow! The kids were off of school again. In the 2 weeks they only went to school 3 days. They enjoyed playing in the snow from their day off. The snow was heavy and wet but didn't cause any issues on the house.

November 13, 2012 I went and had my annual 6 month blood drawn. I have an appointment next week with my Oncologist to review my medical. I will post the updates. I am feeling good and still taking my Tamoxifen.

I posted several photos so check out my website! Take Care and Happy Thanksgiving.

walk/power outage

Hello,
The walk went well and I will update photos and information as soon as I can.

We haven't had power since Monday October 29, 2012 in the afternoon from Storm Sandy. We were lucky and no trees fell on our house.

We were able to borrow a generator on Tuesday which is great. We run it in the mornings and nights.

Hope for power soon but could be worse like the people in NY & NJ. The kids have been out of school all week due to trees and power lines down. We wish for safe and quick recovery for all the states! Take Care