Things I've Always Known I Deserved...But Now Actually Try To Practice! :)

1. More than a cap full of bubble bath. Forget those directions from Avon 'Refreshing Pineapple.' You'll never get the bubbles you see in movies that way. Ditch the cap all together- the last few months I've been dumping 1/8 of the bottle right in.

Thanks to all of you that sent Walgreens gift cards; they went towards prescriptions and bubble bath.

2. I deserve to look at myself in the mirror a little closer. Forget the wrinkle here or there...or an extra pound... (or plural.) I now take a good hard look at myself a few times a week. That's how I noticed, and rejoiced in, my new hair sprouts!

3. Hot water when I simply wash my hands. I don't care if Noah is shoving a fork up his nose at Arbys...if I'm in the bathroom someone is tending to him. I now wait for the water to warm up before exiting. I used to rush and squirt some soap and freeze myself out with the cold faucet.

4. Me time. Noah and the girls will not be sent to therapy because I wasn't there for their every waking moment. A little time away is warranted. Thanks to my sis for keeping Noah the occasional weekend so I can rest.

5. Yearly physicals when nothing seems wrong. I deserve to get checked out once in a while for no real reason. Need I remind anyone that this cancer was caught by a massage therapist?? I wasn't exactly on top of my own health.

6. I deserve to be an advocate for my own health. When my onco or radiology chic say something I don't understand, I don't feel stupid for slowing them down. Why should I?? I'm paying for their homes in Ladue and their childrens' private educations.

7. If I want to DVR Housewives of New York and New Jersey marathons and watch them all in one afternoon I will no longer feel guilty about occasionally watching mindless TV. The one liners from that show put a smile on my face. A forty year old woman yelling at another "Jill!! You are a mean girl and you are in HIGH SCHOOL!!! And while you are in HIGH SCHOOL, I am in BROOKLYN!!" kept me laughing for a day.

8. To relish in things I hear all the time now, but won't forever. "Help me mommy and Kiss my boo boo" from my toddler, and "That was so awesome!!!" from the girls.

9. I deserve to have fun growing my hair back! :) I've never seen it start 'from scratch' so I'm trying to rock the G.I. Jane look and wear it as proudly as I can.

10. Cake. Enough said.

Love to all and thanks for the prayers. :)