3rd Shift Bloggin'

It's late, and since we have to be at the hospital early tomorrow for mom's lumpectomy, I'm going to make this sort. The comments here are for the well wishes--all things considered, this is a minor procedure and she should be able to go home later tomorrow (I will be staying in Ozark during the 24-hours the doctor said she needs to have someone with her, which means lots of channel-surfing with Dad :-)

For your clicking pleasure, I wanted to highlight a couple of charitible causes I missed in last weekend's post:

One is the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, it was founded by Nancy Brinker, the sister of Susan Komen, following her fight. Quite progressive and far-reaching.

One of the Komen Foundation's biggest fund-raising efforts is Race for the Cure. 417 Magazine Senior Editor Katie Pollock's mother is a breast cancer survivor, and Katie says her entire family participates in the event every year in St. Louis. Springfield has its own Race for a Cure organization. Do check it out, especially if running is your kinda gig (it's about a decade late for me, thanks). There are races in both Kansas City and St. Louis, and I know a local group trains for the event, even if there isn't a race outright. I'll check into this.

Finally, if you want to contribute to breast cancer research and support the efforts of local college girls at the same time, I suggest contacting the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority chapter at Drury University. I attended two of their annual Komen "pink" suppers while I was a student there, and it's a great event.

That's all for tonight. I'll update everyone on mom's condition tomorrow night. We're expecting everything to go well and, as always, love you all and appreciate the good mojo. Just for smiles, and because I'm obsessed with these here YouTubes, here's a link to the video for the song my mom and I used to sing on the way to school when I was in, like, fourth grade.

I promise more pictures in the coming days.

Matt