My nieces Angelina and Marissa

My niece, Marissa, made her first communion today.  Here's a post of her one and only godmother, 'mua', and her godfather, my DH Dave.  Since her party will be later, we skipped over to my sis' house to eat and check on Angelina. 
So many of my clients have been so sweet emailing and asking in person how Angelina's progress is, so here's the update - she's still in remission, and as you can see, her hair is growing in and her skin coloring has done a 180.  Her mood is wonderful while off the steroids (infrequent doses now), and yet her treatment still consists of daily chemo in the evenings with once a month trips downtown for a few heavy doses at once.  To date, her treatment should be wrapping up by July 2011.  The oncology clinic installed a bell a few months back for the kids to ring when they have completed their chemo treatment (not daily, rather, the last day ever of their chemo).  On down days, I remind myself she'll be ringing that bell next year.  And you better believe there's going to be a big party to celebrate.

Hope everyone is holding up well for the sun.  We have another moody day ahead tomorrow, but think positive.