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Continue reading →: Wedding Update: We Did It! 💍🤍After weeks of baking, flower picking, decorating and wondering if we’d actually pull off a DIY wedding for 175 people…they’re married! The weather was beautiful, the food was great, the dance floor was full (well, for most of us 😂), and somehow everything came together. But one unexpected moment made…
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Continue reading →: Closing Apparel 212: Sometimes the Next Step Is Letting GoAfter a lot of thought, I’ve made the difficult decision to close Apparel 212. It isn’t the ending I pictured, and it comes with some expensive lessons I’m still paying for…literally. Now I’m figuring out how to close this chapter, tackle the debt it left behind, and decide what’s next.…
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Continue reading →: Wedding Prep: The Beautiful Chaos 💍🧁Stacy shares her hectic week of preparing for her daughter’s wedding, involving baking 200 cupcakes, making 800 mints, and preparing 250 cookies, along with a wedding cake. Despite the chaos and exhaustion of DIY planning, she finds joy in helping create her daughter’s special day and appreciates the experience.
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: One Appointment at a Time
We headed back to Philadelphia for more follow-up appointments, hoping for a little more clarity. Instead, we left with more information, more options to consider…and a few more decisions to make. We met with the surgeon first, and the news was encouraging. Kobe’s head is healing really well. The surgeon…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: The Pathology We Were Waiting For
It’s funny how life works sometimes. I started writing this update weeks ago, but never finished it. Looking back, that seems fitting. Life wasn’t slowing down long enough to let me sit and process everything that was happening. After surgery, we finally got the pathology results. The good news was…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: After SurgerySurgery was two days ago, and we are currently sitting in the hospital waiting to see if the drainage from Kobe’s neck decreases enough for us to go home. We’re really hoping to avoid going home with the drainage tube since we’re 3½ to 4 hours away, depending on what…
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Continue reading →: Well… We Survived Our First Food Trailer Event 🚚🍕
The food trailer season has officially started… and not without chaos. Our first event was an elementary school showcase. The weather wasn’t exactly ideal, and there were four other food trailers there for one small elementary school. So naturally my thinking was: “Small event… what better way to work out…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update: One Step at a Time ✨
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since I last updated the blog. In some ways it feels like forever… and in other ways it feels like everything happened in the blink of an eye. Since the last update, a lot has happened. Kobe has officially started treatment…
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Continue reading →: Melanoma Update:
Today was a long day of doctor appointments and scans, but we just keep moving forward one step at a time. We should have results from the scans in the next couple of days. As of now, the plan is to start immunotherapy before surgery to remove the melanoma lesion.…
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Continue reading →: ✨ A Post I Didn’t Plan on Writing… But Here We Are
A post I didn’t think I would be making. I guess life throws all kinds of curveballs around 50… but a melanoma diagnosis for my son, Kobe, was not the kind of curveball any of us were expecting. Let me back up to a little over a week ago. It…
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I’m Stacy…
Navigating the middle with caffeine, courage, and a whole lot of “let’s just try it and see.” I built an online boutique (Apparel 212), and now I’m pivoting into food-trailer chaos while paying down debt and figuring out midlife hormones. This is the honest, messy side of reinventing life in my late-40s/50ish years — where the middle isn’t the end… it’s just where the story gets good.
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