Anacortes...

Me, Peter and Madelyn have all been just sleeping.  12 hours overnight and long naps in the afternoon.  We are obviously making up for lost time. I think we all feel relaxed finally.


KP Studio wise, Peter and I have decided to take a pause until the end of the month.  We are working on on-going projects but only have a couple photo shoots planned for the month.  We just need time to wrap our heads around how all this will work.  


Madelyn has been in such great spirits since being home.  It has made all of our shoulders loosen and smiles reach upward.  She is missing her routine of going to school, but at the same time is reluctant to go outside the house.  I'm not sure why... maybe she just wants to be home... maybe she is worried about something...  


I finally got her out this afternoon though.  I enticed her with her favorite thing at the Gere-A-Deli: Chicken Mango Penne.  As we were finishing MJ started a conversation with a nice lady sitting next to us.  They chatted about this and that and then Madelyn said to her "I have Leukemia."  Very matter-of-fact, just as we talk to her about it.  Not with any sadness or negative overtone.  Just plain and simple speak.  MJ is very proud of being brave;  just as we are of her.  She continued to tell this woman about how she gets "pokies" and with the magic cream it doesn't hurt at all.  "And when they do the back pokies, they just put me to sleep and I don't feel anything."  This kind woman happened to volunteer in the Children's Hospital Auxiliary and didn't have any trouble jumping right into the conversation.  When we said goodbye I said to her over my shoulder "I guess you don't hear that everyday..."


Madelyn is still doing her drawing furiously, evening taking paper and pens to bed with her now.  When I woke up in the morning, I went to find Madelyn and I couldn't.  Finally found her in the playroom drawing.