Real life with Lar

2017 What a year! Favorite shirt! I didn’t think when 2017 started that it would wind up being one of the hardest years of my life. When looking back on 2017 I learned a few lessons I plan on taking with me into 2018.  I’d like to share a few of those lessons with you now. With the right attitude you will soar to great heights! 1.  Attitude is everything I told our daughters this phrase so many times when they were growing up. It is so true that our attitude is key to dealing with what life throws our way. Attitude is where you set your intentions. It’s where you decide how you are going to tackle a problem. It’s where you decide if you are going to throw a pity party or if you're going to strategize victory and overcome obstacles hindering your best life.  This past March, when I received my cancer diagnosis and after I had a quick pity party, I began to ask myself, “What good can come out of this? How can I help other women going through...

One of Life's Curve Balls I know on my Facebook page, this last Friday, I said I would let my followers know what was going on with me and the reason for my lack of recent blog posts. So let me just come out and say it: I have Breast Cancer.   It still feels weird to say those words. I had felt some pain in my right breast.  So of course I did what every sane and rational human being would do and I googled my symptoms.  According to what I read, breast pain is usually NOT associated with cancer. Plus at the time I thought there was no family history.(found out after my diagnosis a great aunt and second cousin had breast cancer)  The pain came and went but I decided I needed to get a physical anyway because I was so fatigued.  I scheduled my mammogram that I hadn't had in 3 years. I know, I know that was not a good thing to do.  After a mammogram and an ultrasound they said I had a  "mass that has the characteristics of cancer and...