Our Bags Are Packed and We're Ready to Go!

Tomorrow is the day. Grace and I spent some time tonight gathering a bag of things for her to do tomorrow. Her Brownie troop has organized a gift basket for her, which will be delivered every Wednesday night in anticipation of her Thursday treatments. Tonight's basket contained High School Musical stickers, markers, a blank journal and other goodies. Grace is thrilled, and Rob and I are truly touched at the support our community is showing us. We are so grateful for each of you!

Grace is handling everything just fine--at least on the outside. I know she is nervous, but she seems to be doing OK. Tonight was her musical performance at school, which I'm sure helped to take her mind off of things. We'll all be glad to get through tomorrow. It will be easier when we have an idea of the routine of the place and how she will tolerate her medication and the IV in general.

I've packed my bag for the hospital, too. Though I'm thinking it's rather optimistic of me to think I'll get through 4 back issues of Gourmet and Bon Appetit! In a way, I'm looking forward to the time to spend alone with Grace.

I will update tomorrow night with how it went. Please keep up in your thoughts.

By the way, the above picture was taken in February at Grace's birthday party at Libby Lu's. Isn't her smile fantastic?