Friday, January 30 - Saturday, January 31: Wintry Days

Friday evening we went to dinner at the club as a break from our cobbled-together "cooking" from the week, and then Greta met a friend at school to see the Upper School play. 

Saturday Lucia was gone all day--from 6:30 a.m. until 10:30 p.m.--for a track meet in Spirer, Ohio. She got a new PR for the mile--5:57!--and was exhausted but excited about her events. Greta went to Saturday crew practice in the morning, and Andrew and I went to the Oakmont Bakery after dropping her off. Afterward, we went to Panera for lunch then browsed in Anthropologie. Greta found a cute skirt sale-on-sale and Andrew bought a cute casserole dish, also sale-on-sale. I admired a swan tray that will, at some point, be mine. Later Greta and I watched an episode of Stranger Things. 

I forgot to write earlier in the week that Greta won two awards for her short stories! Her teacher had encouraged her to submit two of her stories for the Scholastic Writing Awards, and this week she found out she was awarded a Gold Key for one and a Silver Key for the other at the regional level. The Gold Key story will move on to the national level. Very exciting since this competition is for 7th-12th grades. She's so pleased and proud (as are we). 

Feeling beyond ready to get some information and decisions made on my treatment. By mid next week we will have a plan. This is just a bananas process and I'm ready to move forward. If not approved for ribociclib I will switch to mekinist, which I actually already have in my possession and which Dr. Gershenson also felt was a fine option for me. The eighteen-wheeler of my treatment journey is stuck in a icy pile of snow right now and is still refusing to make the turn. The wheels are spinning. January has been such a frustrating mess.