Fun Day Trip

Yesterday we took the kids to Gilroy Gardens. We bought the special "every one's a kid" season pass since it was a deal and costs almost as much as a day ticket pass with just five bucks more. The kids had a great time. The place is amazingly big and beautiful with lots of kiddie rides for their age group. We only went on a few rides and then by 5PM, we called it a day. It was our first visit there but with our season passes, we'll be sure to come more often throughout the summer. The kids wanted to ride the balloon rides, see a show and even ride the swan lake boat ride, but by 5PM, we were all so tired and it was time to head home to have dinner.
Today we ran some errands and visited my mom. It nice to relax and stay home. I did some house cleaning, clean the entire fridge and got a little organizing done.

Sad news
After the kids went to bed last night, I did a little online reading, catching on my online Lung cancer news and  blog reading. With a heavy heart, I was shocked and saddened to learn of Dr. Norman Wu's as well as one of the Stanford Lung cancer group member's passing. My heart and prayers goes to Dr. Wu's family and Carl's family. Dr. Wu wrote a very hopeful, inspiring detailed blog of his 13 months battling stage 4 lung cancer. Having this disease, you just never know what's coming and it's just disheartening and devastating to hear of another member's loss in this cancer battle. It's just a tragedy more so when it happens to families or to parent's with young kids. So my prayers goes to them and to all of us cancer warrior fighters out there who is battling this terrible disease.

I'll be back to my weekly blood labs and chemo this coming Wednesday and will see my Dr., Dr. Neal. All is well me and the kids. Lots of Love.

Spa Day

Last weekend, two of my very good girlfriends treated me out to a nice Spa day at the Wellness Within in Santa Cruz. It was so nice to be pampered with one of the best, 50 minutes of relaxing therapeutic, aromatherapy massage ever where I wasn't even sore the next few days at all. We started out with relaxing in the spa with our swimsuits and caught up with what's going with our lives, talking and chatting away and then washed up to get our individual massages in separate areas. After our massages, we took a little stroll down a few blocks downtown and had lunch. Embarrassingly, even though they offered to pay, I really had planned on paying for myself, but when Liz picked me up in the morning, in a mad rush out the door, I grabbed the wrong purse and left my keys, phone and wallet at home. Needless to say, I was bummed. Awkwardly, I felt helpless to depend on my friends to cover for me.  Luckily, I was able to make it up and had my husband give me his credit card info over my friend's phone so that I could at least make it up by paying for lunch. Thank goodness for my hubby's help!

And last Wednesday, I did barely qualify for chemo. My white blood count was quite low and I almost didn't get it, but with the rest of my labs good, my doctor, Dr, Neal did approve me to get it. And thank goodness for my good friend, Ramona to drive over to Stanford to meet up with me while I got chemo. What a true angel she is! I just can't thank her enough for her friendship, support and love for always being there for me.

This week's been the usual business with work and kids. I was off from chemo this week and feeling great. I'm looking forward to this long Memorial day weekend with the kids. We don't anything planned yet, but I have a few fun places in mind to take the kids. Too bad my hubby has work all weekend, but we celebrated early with   him BBQing steaks already during his Weds and Thursday when he was off. All is well. Lots of Love.  

Mother's Day

We had a nice Mother's day weekend. After the kids dance/gym and Kumon on Saturday, we did some errands and then celebrated Mother's day with friends at a neighbor's place, who threw a big party. We had a great time eating lots of good food and sang karaoke. Then on Sunday, I was invited to do a speech at my brother's church to talk about and thank everyone for praying for my continued stable health. Everyone at church was so kind and the whole church event was great, with lots of singing and performances to honor all the Moms. We're blessed to have everyone's support and love.

After church, we visited my parents and had lunch. We gave my Mom her red envelope gift as our way of thanks to her for all her home cooking, love and support. All in all we had a terrific weekend.

Work has been even more busier since my manager left to go work for another company. With just the three of us analysts, there's lots to do. But, even with being busy at work, I try to still make some time to do my routine gym workout out. I'm back to chemo tomorrow. Things are pretty busy as usual between family time, kids activities, work and routine housework errands and cleanup. Lots of Love.

Mother's Day Brunch

It's been awhile since I posted here.  With the nice weather and sunlight lasting longer after work, I get so busy with the kids, taking them outdoors in the yard to play for a little bit, riding their bikes, scooters, wagon or a nice stroll around the neighborhood (actually just up and down the block) and then feeding them dinner and then, it's getting them ready for homework and then bed time.  So by the time all of this is done, I'm just tired and ready for bed myself.  On top of that, I've been super busy for the last two weeks with work and then planning the kids summer schedule/day camp/preschool and other such activities. I love it though, hanging out with the kids in the warm weather.

Over the past 2 weeks, we've been spending lots of weekend time hanging with friends either at birthday parties or doing fun day outings to the zoo, having dinner with friends and bowling with the kids.  This past weekend, thanks to Jason and his students, they organized an awesome pre-Mother's Day Brunch event at his local high school for us yesterday. The kids and I had a great time and the event was just fun to see all the talent his high school students put together in honor of Moms. It was put on by the Interact club, which its mission and purpose is to help volunteer within the community. So endless thank yous to Jason, his family and all the students at Piedmont High for an awesome event in my honor. Here are some pics from the event.

I'm just glad to be enjoying life to the fullest and keeping busy with the everyday normalcy.  I'm getting used my Power Port now and it doesn't even bother me much, other than the occasional itch. It makes getting blood draws and chemo infusion so much better and painless (other than the one needle poke into the port). And again, thanks to my wonderful friends, supporters, family and husband, I'm so blessed to have the love and prayers from everyone for my continued stable health. Thank you Liz, Ramona, Kim, Jason and his family for being such a good friends and always being there.  Lots of Love.