It's Time for the Perfect Cheer!

Okay – so yesterday was Halloween – a day celebrated by fantasy, chocolate, candy and sugar in general.  It should be my type of day, shouldn’t it?   So while most families were preparing cute, adorable costumes for their precious little ones, I had to find something else to do with my time. I resisted the urge to dress up my Standard Poodle (who is way overdue for a grooming) as Mr. Snuffalufagus from olden days of Sesame Street.   Instead, I drowned my desire for such fun times in – what else?  Chocolate.  Dipped in more chocolate.  And then decorated like spiders.  Yeah...spiders. 

Fortunately the people I work with love to eat as much as I love to bake.  Most who start working in my division have gained weight over the years since– some actually blame me!  I can’t help that the only thing I learned to make in home economics before the high school burned down (not due to my cooking!) was desserts.  So I have a sweet-tooth…a mouthful of them, in fact.    At least I share.  (Sometimes maybe I share too much...)

And it was while rolling some 15 dozen Peanut Butter Bon Bons last night for the Junior League Holiday Market approaching this weekend, I thought more about sharing and how thankful I was that I learned to share.  One reason I'm thankful I learned to share is that the thought of keeping 15 dozen of these things at my house was horrid.  

I’m thankful that #604 learned to share.  Because she’s is sharing something so personal with me – someone she doesn’t even know.  Tomorrow morning, around 7:00, #604 will go into surgery to have many of her precious follicles (that contain eggs) that she’s been growing for the last several weeks removed.  Then the eggs will be fertilized and left to incubate in petri dishes.  I’ll get a call on Thursday to tell me how many fertilized and are growing.  I AM SO EXCITED!!!! 

For those who pray – please pray specifically for #604 tomorrow morning.  Pray that her surgery goes well and that she is in minimal pain afterwards.  Pray for the doctors and embryologists involved to retrieve all the mature follicles without harming them and prepare the eggs within them for fertilization.  Pray that fertilization occurs in all the eggs so that we’ll have at least 1 embryo for transfer to me next Monday morning.  Did I mention how EXCITED I AM?? 

For those who are cheering Team #604/Hirsch – it’s time for that perfect cheer!