Thanksgiving was well timed. As in, P was feeling pretty good because it was a “chemo break” week. And also as in, we had a lot of great family time, some pretty cool activities, and time with our friends. I mean, it pretty much hit all the major “awesome weekend” marks.

Wednesday night, our family came in with their two little boys just to hang out and have dinner. It was SO good to see them. We hadn’t met the littlest one yet, so the baby snuggles were good therapy.

Thursday, of course, was full of eating. It is very easy to get 110g of protein on Thanksgiving. 🙂 We usually go down to Charleston, so it was strange to be in Raleigh this year, but it was wonderful to see my mom’s side of the family, plus my in-laws could participate as well.

Also, pie.

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We had loads of time to just play – Conor and I spent a good 30 minutes on Friday trying to pop this balloon. It is indestructible. We laughed so so hard.

Saturday, we were treated like royalty by my sister’s boyfriend Zach at the Duke game. Fantastic seats at Cameron Indoor (which is a very cool place), access to the “champions club” and, importantly, the best parking spot ever. Like 6 people had to move cones for us to get to our lot.

We wore our fancy new sweatshirts to hang out with Brendan and Lauren afterwards just to irritate Brendan. But seriously, you have to appreciate how well Duke plays basketball no matter where your alliances are!

Sunday we went to see Moana (it was fantastic) and I decorated with a little help from C. My fake tree is wobbly, but it will do.

There were lots of other fun things in there, too – it was the first time in a while the whole focus of our lives was not on “cancer.”

It’s back to chemo tomorrow. P’s been feeling really good, so he’s bummed to have to start another week of being uncomfortable, but hey, it is what it is.