Christi's Ribbon in Washington DC

It must have been like finding a needle in a haystack, but the amazing Cheryl did it! I bet she had a special helper searching the tree for the name.
Sweet Chemo Angel, Cheryl, attended the candelighters event Saturday night in DC. She donated a ribbon in Christi's memory to the annual canderlighters.org tree that stands proudly at the Old Post Office Pavillion in Washington DC. Her husband took her there to witness the lighting of the tree.

She wrote....I attended the event Saturday night; not too many dry eyes for very long! Over 500 people were in attendance and I was able to find Christi's ribbon on the tree! Amazing! The pictures will show you, the tree is LOADED with gold ribbons in honor of or in memory of way too many children. It was like finding the needle in the haystack but we were determined and the emotions didn't hit until I found each one I was looking for. Hugs to all." Thank you, Cheryl! Thank you, Chemo Angels!


Tonight I will teach my final class of the semester for Heidelberg College; it is with mixed feelings. I'm grateful to have some more time; however, I've really come to love and respect my students and I will miss our weekly class sessions and all that they brought to class. While the summer class I taught went off without a hitch, the one that ends tonight started off very rough. (I taught the first week - even though Shayne drove Christi the night before out to Philly, then I had to have Heidelberg Professors sub for me for the next two weeks while I was in Philadealphia with Christi. I really feel like it was this job that got me moving again as I had to teach about 48 hours after Christi was buried. I some how managed to get dressed and to pretend nothing had happened in my personal life and I can really say it was the best thing that happened in three weeks!) Tonight, I reflect back upon this wonderful opportunity this summer and fall with gratitude and thanks to the 'Berg for allowing me to teach classes for such a fine institution! I'd like to express my deepest gratitude and thanks to Heidelberg College for having the faith in me to teach these teachers striving to obtain their master's degrees. Next semester I will have the honor of teaching an undergraduate literacy class and I will work very hard to try to fill the shoes of the wonderful woman who taught the class before me! You can be certain what I will be working on over our holiday break!