Merry Christmas!!! 🎄

Hi Friends!  I just wanted to pop by quickly to wish you a Merry Christmas!  

Eliot and I have been crazy busy the past few weeks between mouse ear orders, desk accessory orders, sewing classes, hockey games, doctor's appointments, holiday events and trying to check things off of our own Christmas to do lists.  I'm so glad that we have today to sit back and just be still before life starts spinning quickly again.

I hope you have a joyous day filled with lots of love, happiness and merriment.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!! 🎄

Three Months Since Endometriosis Excision Surgery

It’s been exactly three months since my endometriosis excision surgery!!! 💛🎗🌻 

Looking back, I’ve been through a whirlwind this past year.  But it feels like this is a good point to try to stop counting- even though that’s been really hard for me.  I spent most of this past year counting and calculating absolutely everything.  How long does this pain last?  How many days have I experienced this?  How many times do I have to use the bathroom a day?  What day of my menstrual cycle is it?  How big is Bruno the baseball sized cyst at this point? 🎗🌻 

Today, exactly 13 weeks to the day post-op, I’m so ready to put as much of that behind me as possible.  I’ve still got endometriosis- and I am slowly learning to accept that I’ll never be the same me I was ever again.  I have a chronic illness. 🎗 I’m going to have good days and I’m going to have bad days.  But here’s hoping the good ones will finally start to outweigh the bad ones. 💛

I’m going to continue to look at sunflowers as my shining ray of hope. 🌻 Maybe they have always been there smiling at me with encouragement… it just took all of this for me to realize it.  I really loved this beautiful sunflower Starry Night inspired Christmas tree from our trip to Pittsburg back in January of 2022 when Eliot and I went to the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit with his family. 🎨🖼  And I think I’m going to make myself a miniature version of it next year so I can remember how strong I really am. 💛🎗🌻