Thanks for the feedback! It sounds like you've got a good support system. That's great. I think you can reassure your kids that nowadays breast cancer is very treatable. I don't know your situation, but if it is discovered early, recovery is 95 - 100%. Depending on their ages, maybe you can consider making them part of your team - each could take a couple of chores to do to help you. I just Googled "mommy has breast cancer book" and there are several that popped up. There's even a book called "My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks" for older kids. If you've got a public library in town, the librarian can probably help you. (My mom was a librarian, so I have great faith in them!)
The word "invasive" is really scary. I was shaking all over when I read that in the biopsy report. But it turned out that the actual tumor was only 2mm - bigger than a BB but smaller than a pea! I hope yours turns out to be small also. With ILC they may not know the exact size until after they have taken it out. I will say that the lumpectomy surgery was not as bad as I had feared. I had had my appendix out a number of years ago (the old-fashioned way, not laparoscopy) and that was considerably worse than either lumpectomy. I was able to take off a week from work to recover from the lumpectomy, which was good, but I am 69. I did nothing but rest for two days, then did some work from home on the computer a few hours a day for the rest of the week. If you are still teaching and have kids at home, you must be a lot younger than I am, so will probably recover faster! Good luck. I am praying for a good recovery for you.