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September 5, 2006

"I heard you won that race"

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I called this LO "I heard you won that race" b/c that's what my husband says to me at least a couple of times a week. After I ran in my first Komen 5K, he turned to me (as I was cruising through a 300 yd lane of pink balloons) and said, "I heard you won that race"... I thought he was crazy. I certainly wasn't in last place, but I was definitely far from winning.

What he meant was (in general), the race against breast cancer. We weren't married until 4 years after my battle, but he reminds me often that I was strong enough to win the race... and he tells me even more frequently how guilty he feels that he wasn't there for me. Isn't he sweet?

He's always buying me pink things (shirts, shoes, my new Oakley sunglasses) and when he hands them to me, he whispers in my ear, "I heard you won that race". Gosh, I love him!

Anyway, the picture in the middle is my husband, my children, my mom and dad and me... at the Komen race in Houston 4 years ago.

The picture in the upper right was me when I looked the worst. Hmmm. I thought I looked pretty good through treatments, but when I look back at that picture, it scares me. The picture was taken about 3 months after my last treatment... it signified the end AND a new beginning. My girls have often looked at that picture as they've grown older. Each says they are glad they don't remember me looking so sick, or it would have really scared them. God's grace is a BIG thing, isn't it?

***If you are wondering why I have feet on the sides of my cheeks, it's one foot from each of my girls. They were laying on the floor and I was playing peek-a-boo with their feet (weird, I know, but it kept them laughing)***

I haven't completely journaled the tag yet, b/c I'm still working on some other pages... and I'm not sure that I want to put any words on the pages until I finish. I've got so much to say and as is usual for me, I have to get all the pictures on paper before the words come out right.

It was made with the September kit from iamascrapaholic.com. TFL! Aubrey


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