I think I’ve really only mentioned it once, probably due to lack of posting, but my father-in-law was diagnosed earlier this year with lymphoma. I’m happy to say that this past week he’s officially in remission. He had to do several rounds of chemo and four long weeks of radiation. He held up pretty well, especially when compared to other people I’ve seen with cancer, and he’s doing good. And his hair is even growing back rather quickly (despite what you see reflected on his son’s heads, he had some thick, full hair before all of this).

The other day, in a little mini-celebration (until we can do a bigger one) of his remission, we went over there and took a cake I’d made. I totally screwed up the outside and due to the icing trying to melt on me and then running out of time, I didn’t get to fix it, but the inside was what was important. I called it “After the Storm” – just like a rainbow comes out to remind you that everything’s a-ok, so comes his remission. He cut the cake and was VERY surprised to see the inside and called everyone over to see. Everyone had a piece and thankfully it tasted good, too. I have to admit I used box stuff, but I’m not ashamed. Like is said on this inspirational post, “Betty’s been doing it way longer than I have, and has pretty much perfected the art.” I am so not a baker. Maybe if I had a kitchen that was bigger than a closet, things would be different, but in the meantime, I don’t but I’m happy with how the cake came out. I did make some mistakes that if I do this another time, I won’t make them again. It also had E bouncing off the friggin walls… no left-overs for him!

And I wish my father-in-law many, many, many more years of good health and a cancer-free body!