Pink Week

The people at I Heart Faces are honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month this week. Make sure to stop by and check out the other entries. Here is mine:

There are five people living in our home (including baby-in-belly). One of them is "papa," the gentleman on the right in the above photo. Until April of this year, he lived in a different house. He lives with us now because that house was no longer home to him. It has been empty even when full since April 2007 when his wife, my husband's mother, my baby's grandma finally got to rest from her 11 year battle with cancer.

This photo was taken in November of 2006. What you can't know from just looking at this photo is that there is no hair under that hat, no breasts under her shirt. You can't know that until 30 seconds before this picture was taken, she was in a wheelchair and feeling ill. Now that you know, you might assume that she was frail. On the contrary - despite the wheelchair out of sight in the background, I assure you that SHE was holding him up.