HUG YOUR SISTER

I'm pretty lucky, as you already know.
I have an extra chromosome and not everyone has one of those.
I have a great family and lots of friends who pray for me all the time.
I have great doctors and nurses and I have hardly any side effects from my cancer treatments. I have great teachers and therapists and I'm getting smarter and stronger every day. BUT, do you know what else I have?!?!

I have a really special big sister. Lucky lucky me!

MY SISTER

To me you are an angel in disguise.

 Full of intuition, intelligent, and wise.

Always giving and helping through

Good times and bad.

You are the best friend I've ever had.

If I had one wish it would surely be

To give you as much as you've given to me.

Though I've put our relationship through some cloudy days,

You've been my sunshine in so many ways.

Through trials and tests, right by me

You stood,

And gave me your hand whenever you could.

Thank you so much my sister, my friend

My gratitude for you has no end.

-Leann Stiegman

Here we are playing with her dollies.

I love helping her with homework.

Here we are taking Selfies with Mom.

Look at how much I've changed since this time last year.

I made my sister's favorite food for her last week. Garlic Bread. 

Here's a hairdo Mom gave me in the tub. It's great to have my hair back!

I enjoyed celebrating Catholic Schools Week with my Sibs.

Here I am playing Captain Chemo, shouting "Stop" to the Cancer. 

I'm so proud of my big sister. She and I are pointing to our backs! 

Her T-shirt says NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY BEE. Way to go!

This hug is not contrived. She really loves me this much. And I love her this much too! 

If you have a sister, give her a hug or a call today and tell her how much you love her. Thank your mom and dad too for giving you a sister. Not everyone is as lucky as us! 

As always, thank you for your prayers and if you've got the time, please keep them coming. I only have 299 days left of treatment and then we start the treacherous first of seven years watching for relapse. Sometimes knowing I'm taking chemo meds makes me feel better than the idea of not having something in me helping me fight the cancer. But, that's the road we're on right now. A treacherous road indeed. But, it has been traveled by many before us and knowing you're with me makes me not so scared. Thank you. 

New Year's Resolution

You've heard them all before. Lose weight. Exercise more. Save money. Spend more time with family and friends. Spend less time worrying. Take more trips. Pray more.
You've attempted at least most of them one year or another. Here are mine. Now, I've only been around 3 years, so my experience is limited, but here's what I'm going to focus on. Join me.

1) wash hands
It's really important to wash hands. They are germy and gross and I'm not afraid to touch anything and then just grab my waffle and eat it with dirty hands. Plus, dirty hands can bring an infection home and I can't really fight those battles, so we are all going to wash our hands more. Join me.

2) pray more
So easy. Any time any place and often 6 times during meals. I pray thanksgiving prayers for all that I have, for my family, my good health and minimal side effects, for my teachers, friends, and doctors and nurses. I pray for others too. I like snow and pray for the weather. I love football and pray for the Packers. I pray that I'll grow up one day to be strong, wise and understood. Join me.









3)work hard. I already work hard, but I resolve to work even harder this year. More speech therapy, more physical therapy, more play therapy, more music therapy. Join me in putting 100% in all you do. Nothing in this world is going to come easy for me, and that's ok, because I'm a hard worker. Well, I AM a pretty good dancer. But, even that takes work. Mom says when this cancer thing is behind us and I can be back out in public she's going to sign me up for dance class. I can't wait! But, until then, I'm going to dance my own routines and work hard at all I attempt to do. Join me.


Yesterday was a clinic day. We brought in a ton of books from the book drive in December! Thank you. I read a few. Excellent! They made my day go by quickly. I had breathing treatment, IVIG transfusion of bug fighting cells, and a really nice nap. My nurses were awesome. My Daddy even came to spend the day with Mom and me. The nurse confirmed that the last day of treatment for me was Thanksgiving day itself! Now isn't that perfect! We all have so much to be thankful for, but until then we'll just keep working on our resolutions.







Have a good day.
Thanks for the prayers.





































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