Dream weaver.....

Happy weekend everyone! Meet our Dream Weaver Laurie from the Dream Come True Foundation! She is the one who has organized our entire Disney Vacation for us through the DCTF. She works for Turner Construction with my mother and has been my go to gal since June. We had a meeting with her on Thursday for lunch and she gave us our itinerary and awesome gifts for the girls to use for their trip. Usually they come to the house and do a big what to do but unfortunately our schedules didn't mesh well and we met her at Turner in Milford. We are getting excited, we are only 6 days away and boy is it not coming fast enough for us. Thanks to Laurie, we have plenty of things planned to keep us on our toes. We may need a vacation from our vacation!!! After weeks of extensive shopping to prepare ourselves for this trip, we now have to find a way to bring it all with us (we don't want no second bag fee's now do we?) But we may end up having to on our way home because we all know how my mom likes to shop! Once we get home and have enough time to settle back into reality we have to start the hustle and bustle of trying to get ready for Mia's first day of Kindergarten, the Bridgeport Bluefish game and The Drugonis Family outing!! ALL IN ONE WEEKEND! WOAH! If you know me at all, you know I love to surround myself with Chaos. So why should the week before school be any different.

This past Wednesday, the Great Hill Ladies Auxiliary presented us with the check from the ziti dinner and I was totally blown away by it. I never would have imagined in a million years that our community cared enough to do something to this magnitude. The most unbelievable thing is that we still have two more benefits on August 24th (Harbor yard) and September 20th (DT Danny O's)! Amazing....that seems to be the only word I can use to sum all of this up!

Mia is on her 3rd week of treatment and is doing great! She is getting used to getting her shots now and is somewhat ready for them. Many of the side effects are not as rough as they were before. She is still a pain in the hiney but nothing too intolerable. Mia is just a beaming ray of sunshine most days, the others she acts like demons spawn (so nothing different there). She is ready for school but she really does miss her Abby M. Hopefully Monday we can have a play-date like scheduled. Tuesday we have to be at Yale Children's Hospital to get a CT Scan to make sure that this isn't spreading during treatment. I have the ultimate faith that all will be well. Lately our lives have seemingly returned to normal and maybe even better than it was before. Maybe the statement "If he brings you to it, he will bring you through it" really does stand true......