july 18, 2011
whenever I don't post for a while, I start getting emails from friends wondering if i'm ok. so sweet! one thing to know about me....if you don't hear from me I'm likely totally fine. when something's wrong I blog to get my thoughts out.
so right in character with things, i have been living life over the past months. it feels crazy awesome and luxurious to just worry about what fun things we are up to.
talyn finished kindergarten. a small step for most, but a huge step for us. it was our first year doing this all on our own and we survived! with new things comes anxiety and fear of failure, but somehow everyone manages to get through - don't we? the next time you feel like you're standing at the edge of a cliff of something new, just remember that you've been there before and somehow you just leaped across to something new. so you can do it again.
investors group hosted the second annual golf tournament for talyn's sports fund. sports are expensive! so the group that ryan worked with makes sure that talyn can choose what sports he wants....even if someday it's hockey - ugh!
on the rethink breast cancer front, we had an amazing month. at the long view golf tourney, we raised over $12K for this amazing charity that a group of us donate our time to. then 9 of us spent a weekend with a psychologist getting trained to do peer support for other young women going through breast cancer. this was the dream we had from day one, 4 years ago and now we are officially launched! check it out... http://rethinkbreastcancer.com/support-programs/peer-to-peer/
the weekend training helped me remember a lot of things. but one of the biggest lessons i learned through everything can really apply to anyone:
we all go through hard stuff. just remember that you often can't control the bigger stuff in life, but you can control how you deal with it. so just try and focus on that and the rest will work itself out. it always does.
much love,
tasha
Monday
renewal
may 30, 2011
i don't know if it's where i'm at in life, the crazy amount of rain followed by the sun or the school year coming quickly to a close, but i feel as if life is changing. some parts of it are definitely brought on by me. my hair is back to its youth color - blond. i figured it was time for a change.
now i finally have a burning desire to clear out the clutter of the years gone by. i've talked about it for months, but now i'm ready. i actually feel like i'm suffocating in "stuff". i was scared that if i got rid of the stuff, the memories would go with it - but of course that's not true. it might not be as top of mind all of the time, but it will always be with me.
talyn and i had a really great time in maui. we went with great friends and somehow found the perfect combination of life list stuff and relaxing. i got to snorkel with some sea turtles and talyn learned to surf. but what i figured out over the past couple of months is as i continue to check things off of my life list - amazing outdoor concert experience, trip to hawaii, etc. i just want to add more to it!
more updates from the past month include:
aloha,
tasha
i don't know if it's where i'm at in life, the crazy amount of rain followed by the sun or the school year coming quickly to a close, but i feel as if life is changing. some parts of it are definitely brought on by me. my hair is back to its youth color - blond. i figured it was time for a change.
now i finally have a burning desire to clear out the clutter of the years gone by. i've talked about it for months, but now i'm ready. i actually feel like i'm suffocating in "stuff". i was scared that if i got rid of the stuff, the memories would go with it - but of course that's not true. it might not be as top of mind all of the time, but it will always be with me.
talyn and i had a really great time in maui. we went with great friends and somehow found the perfect combination of life list stuff and relaxing. i got to snorkel with some sea turtles and talyn learned to surf. but what i figured out over the past couple of months is as i continue to check things off of my life list - amazing outdoor concert experience, trip to hawaii, etc. i just want to add more to it!
more updates from the past month include:
- we have gotten to know more medical professionals in the past month than many of you will know in a lifetime, but that's apparently how we roll.
- and talyn turned 6, surrounded by many kids and friends and lego everywhere. i swear next year we'll do it simpler (or maybe not).
- and talyn finally got matched with a big brother! because of confidentiality - blah, blah, i can't share details, but i truly believe this will be life changing for us both.
aloha,
tasha
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)