{"id":128,"date":"2017-04-07T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/cards-of-thanks-part-1\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T06:03:00","slug":"cards-of-thanks-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/cards-of-thanks-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cards of Thanks &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Praise be to God for my comrades and co-survivors:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>My husband, Ryan<\/u>.&nbsp; My brilliant, wise, and optimistic partner.&nbsp; It\u2019s been hard, for you, for me, for us.&nbsp; It must have been tempting to run away, our family was crazy, crazy, crazy.&nbsp; Thank you for sticking it out, learning by my side, and championing bringing humor and celebration into my life. I love you dearly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>My kids<\/u>.&nbsp; They keep me going, both literally (exhaustingly), and emotionally, praise God for Rayna\u2019s complements, Garrett\u2019s smiles, and Allison\u2019s snuggles.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>My Mom<\/u>.&nbsp; There are not enough words to express how grateful I am for my Mom, a cancer survivor, twice over, herself.&nbsp; I continue to have much to learn from my Mom and thank God for a first-hand role model of mothering well.&nbsp; I want to write a book of the women of impact in my life, my Mom is top of that list!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>My Dad<\/u>.&nbsp; Seeing and knowing and hearing how much my Dad loves me, respects me, and believes in me is exactly what a daughter longs for.&nbsp; Thank you, Dad. I love you too and appreciate your visits and watching you play right on the floor with your grandkids.&nbsp; You inspire me to keep giving you reasons to proudly say, \u201cthat\u2019s my girl!\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>My mother in law, Phyllis<\/u>.&nbsp; I think particularly to those initial days of diagnosis and how much you did for my twins.&nbsp; And you continue to love and support me and our kids.&nbsp; Thank you.&nbsp; Your willingness to help and watch the kids and love on the kids is evident in the unparalleled relationship you have with our kids and is absolutely a major reason our family is able to thrive even in difficulty.&nbsp; Thank you, thank you, thank you!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>My Father in law, Gerry<\/u>.&nbsp; Thank you for being willing to enable Ryan and I time away, by helping with the kids. And for being a major support to Ryan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>Josh and Cassie <\/u>(my Brother in law and Sister in law) .&nbsp; Thank you for your compassionate, genuine concern.&nbsp; It\u2019s palpable that you care about us deeply and that has blessed us.&nbsp; Thank you for loving our kids, we are so grateful our children have you for auntie and uncle.&nbsp; Thank you Cassie for making time to make Rayna feel so special by doing her hair fancy.&nbsp; It means a lot to me that you take that time and I know no matter my energy level, my girls have an auntie able to help them see their beauty inside and out.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>Jason and Carmen<\/u> (my sister and Brother-in-law).&nbsp; Thank you for your visiting, and Jason, for enabling Carmen to come out for a couple of days without your kids.&nbsp; There\u2019s nothing quite like a sister to visit and do whatever comes up that needs to be done.&nbsp; Thank you for praying. Thank you for calling.&nbsp; Thank you for showing me what calm within chaos looks like!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>Connect Group<\/u> through <st1:place><st1:placename>First<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename>Ave<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Church<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>. Phenomenal Support network here.&nbsp; These couples as (mostly) strangers sought us out to give us support and then embraced us.&nbsp; We are really learning what living in community means through these relationships.&nbsp; It\u2019s incredible. Thank you: Chris &amp; Vicky, Dave &amp; Crystal, Shawn &amp; Andrea, Gavin &amp; Rebecca, Kelly &amp; Karina. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><u>Girls Group<\/u>: My like-minded friends committed to Jesus and to supporting one another whatever that looks like at that particular time.&nbsp; Carmen, Vicky, Sarah, Rachel, Jocelyn : you girls are absolutely my comrades and co-survivors and never forget it!!!!!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise be to God for my comrades and co-survivors: My husband, Ryan.&nbsp; My brilliant, wise, and optimistic partner.&nbsp; It\u2019s been hard, for you, for me, for us.&nbsp; It must have been tempting to run away, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cards of Thanks - part 1 - Cheryl Rostek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/cards-of-thanks-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cards of Thanks - part 1 - Cheryl Rostek\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Praise be to God for my comrades and co-survivors: My husband, Ryan.&nbsp; 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