Pedigreed Housewife World

With Memorial Day is coming up this weekend, I remind the kids of what we are celebrating.   Rather than tell them that we are commemorating those who have fallen in war, which is the true intent of the holiday, I opt for a less macabre explanation for my 3- and 4-year olds.  We are celebrating all of the soldiers who save us.   Briana asks me how the soldiers find out that we are celebrating them and I tell her that they get letters in the mail.   The kids want to send letters in the mail to a soldier, but I don’t actually know anyone overseas right now.   I tell them that they can send mail to a friend of mine who is being deployed at the end of the summer, but they want to do it today.   Of course.   So, we pretend.   First we need a mailbox.   Luckily I got a shipment of coffees from Keurig today and have the perfect size box.    I also got a mug as a gift from the kids’ school so I can use that smaller box for extra parts.   I have no plan in mind for how to make the m

One of my wonderful readers asked to share her story with us.  It is such an amazing story of cancer survival and I am happy to be able to post it for you all.  While outside of the blog I do not personally know Heather, her story touched me and inspired our activity today, which you will see posted after Heather’s story. Without further adieu – ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It Takes a Village, or a few O nce I had a baby, I understood the truth behind the saying “it takes a village.” After being diagnosed with cancer, I know it takes not one but many villages. Following a normal pregnancy, my daughter was born healthy on August 4, 2005. Our village of parents, friends and relatives immediately enveloped my husband and me. Everyone visited to see Lily, and life was filled with so many good things; little did we know what lied ahead. I went back to work and thing