Get it the virtue. It is press cancer awareness month and that is hitting one virtue member a little bit harder than others and has cast

It was a little over a year ago

We took my daughter Hazel to my parents house for the first time and I was pregnant with Max my son

And we were gonna go visit for the 4th of July and surprise my family with the news and we had brought

Oh, we had bought Hazel this weathered or like hathard moth big sister shirt and big white bold letters

And she was gonna be the one who was announcing it right my family were gonna see the t-shirts and get excited

It took all of them a beat but one by one my mom my dad my sister they all got it and we did know this ex of the baby yet

But we had done genetic testing in the whole weekend

I was freaking out because the doctor had called but I had missed it

She left a message to call her back and everyone knows doctors don't call with the good news nurses do so I was sure something was wrong

Chad my husband was finally able to get them on the phone and we got the good news genetic testing everything look good and the

Absolute shock we were having a baby boy and my family we all have girls everyone's a sister so it was a

Huge announcement and a huge surprise and it was really awesome to be able to share that with them and

The amazing weekend continued like so many first for Hazel her first pizza her first pool her first sandbox

Celebrating the baby news and little did I know the whole weekend one family member had been holding in a huge heavy secret

And after a family game night we had broken out to switch out board games and take a little break refill drinks

And that's when my mom said girls. There's something I need to talk to you about

I have breast cancer

Okay, I see I'm so sorry

The literal day before I came to visit my mother had received her diagnosis

And she had held it in the entire weekend and played it off like nothing was wrong

And as I sat there surprising her with the news of my pregnancy her grandson my absolute stress

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