....and just like that, its back!

Its Labor Day weekend and I'm in Atlanta visiting friends and family. I've been having a wonderful time -- if you ignore the fact that I have come down with a WICKED cold that is upsetting my sensibilities and causing me to not be as much fun as I would like to be. Last night, I giggled into the night with my closest girlfriends in this city. We talked about boys... we talked about money... we talked about boys... we talked about food... we talked about boys... we talked about work, we talked about finding our joy and our passion... about having a dog and about cupcakes. We ate wickedly good food and drank wonderful and unique concoctions.... but by the end of the night I was feeling pretty worn down and had to end the evening with a hot toddy. (It was delicious too)

On the way back to my cousin's house, I stopped and picked up some cold medicine and cough drops and prepared myself for a good sleep. My body was tired and I wanted to rest.

I woke up this morning feeling more run down and just yucky... I mean yucky. My tummy was rumbling, my head was clogged up, my nose wasn't working. My throat was sore and my coughs were really getting bad. I was thinking that I needed to call my other cousin and ask him to examine me (he's a doctor) because I was feeling ODD.

Soooo... imagine my surprise when I started feeling something weird down below... only to pull the quilt off and see that my period had made a grand re-entrance. Wow! I have not seen a menstrual cycle in TWO YEARS -- since I started my chemotherapy -- and poof! just like that... its back. With a vengence and messing up my plans.

Sigh.

I can't get too excited right now because I'm all crampy and feeling lousy... but you know, in the back of my mind... it just hit me that children are a possibility again. Just when I was getting comfortable with the notion that it wasn't possible... things shift.

I'm back to being a girl again...