THE RESULTS ARE IN!!!!

I first have to apologize to all of you for not updating my blog in forever! I have returned back to NC and spend the last two weeks teeting on the edge of a complete nervous breakdown. Why??? I really don't know. I guess everything that has happened over the past two months has finally begun to sink in. Before, the hustle and bustle kept my mind off of everything - but it had to be dealt with sooner or later I guess. So between the grad school, teaching, training for the 1/2 marathon, coaching track, and attempting to get my jewelry business started again - the miscarriage, transplant, and John's absence has finally hit home (and watching The Time Traveler's Wife did NOT help!! - I am seriously traumatized by that movie.)

Ugh - I could cry just looking at that picture. So - my blog has taken a back seat to real life - which gets better every day. I have found my new solice in the actual physical act of teaching my students in school. When I am working with my kids, nothing else matters. I feel like the only thing that is important is their happiness, their learning, and just THEM! They become my everything and the stress of life drifts away in their smiles and laughs. I LOVE making them laugh and enjoy life. Their hugs and silly comments are medicine to my soul. I wish that I could post pictures of their beautiful faces - but we all know this would be COMPLETELY against privacy rights. And so, all I can do is apologize to you all that you do not get to experience what I do each day in my classroom because it is WONDERFUL!!!! (Well - Monte, Sylvia, and Becky get to experience it - they are lucky too:)

Now - on to the best news of all. As I was sitting under the dryer at the hairdresser today (hehe - I finally got my hair cut!!!! and I love it short), I get a call from my sister. When I answer the phone she says, " I have two words for you . . . 100% donor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Well - I guess that is more like three words - but I just realized that. My mom's DNA results came back and ALL of her DNA is MINE!!!!! I don't really know if you even know about the test - but to make a long story short - the doctors did a DNA test to determine if my stem cells were actually grafting and working. Her counts were going up - but we did not know whose cells were causing this rise -- and YEAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! - it is me:) So - although I am still trying to wrap my head around the idea that my mom and I have the exact same DNA (because that is a little weird - don't you think?) I am sooooooooooooooo SUPER excited because it worked. It really worked!!!

So - my mom has been released to start shopping, eating out, getting massages, and living life again! And she even gets to go back to work in May! I just can't even believe it and I am still just basking in the miracle that I was able to witness. God is so amazing and I am forever humbled by what he gives to his children.

PS - my haircut looks super cute - well, at least I think so - but I am a bit partial I guess!