Four Months Later

We now return you to your regularly scheduled updates*.

By TEAM ANISSA

April 19^th, 2015

Weeks 25-40

I am very much aware that it’s been four months since I’ve posted any updates. Call me naive, but when this journey began I had no idea just how crazy things would become. For a while, I thought I could actually keep up. I kept my laptop with me everywhere and would try to update whenever possible, in between the appointments, shoots, school, sports and general chaos. On days when I thought I’d have time to write, something would inevitably pop up and take precedence. My entries were sometimes being written two to four weeks after the fact. I found it difficult to share our experiences in words without oversharing or overstepping boundaries. I found myself self-censoring and over-editing.

So here I sit – on one of only a handful of days with time to write. Isabella is at an all day birthday party for a friend and Anissa is off at a movie with Jonathan.

*I’ve decided to take some of the pressure off by posting using less words and instead, more photos. I will post when I can. I will post when appropriate.

So, here it goes. 4 months in photos.

January 2015

Golf in the desert, Father-Daughter time at Joshua tree, chemo treatments, homework on rainy days, UCLA, breakfast with Anissa, and oh…right…a broken clavicle, scapula and ribs.