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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Miracle Birthday!!!

Today our baby girl turned 15!  wow!  I can't believe it either.  She was the baby that the Doc said I couldn't conceive, but I did.  The baby that beat all the odds against her, the baby that made me fight the fight of my life.  She was born on July 28th , a baby born 12 weeks early to a mommy fighting Cervical cancer and stage 4 endometriosis.  During delivery I passed out when I saw her heart rate drop, and the look on the nurses face.  When I finally came to about 40 hours after her delivery (I had been whisked away to surgery, blood transfusion, a tubal litigation, biopsy, 17 cysts removed, multiple other tests and procedures done in a heroic effort to save my life.)  I looked at Kev and he says, "you did good, she is beautiful!  She is really healthy, the baby doc says we have one tough little girl, just like her mommy."  I asked what did you name her?  (we never picked out a name, I wanted him to name her, I didn't know if I would be around.)  He says "Shania" I thought I would lose my mind are you kidding me?  what was he thinking?  Our kids have names w/ meaning, w/ a story.  knowing me and what was racing through my mind before I could say what I was thinking he says "Shania in indian means I am on my way."  I gave her the middle names of Jo after you and Lynn after your baby sister"  (baby sister helped take care of me and the older 2 kids during the pregnancy so Kevin could work and provide for us)  I just cried!  He really had thought it out, her name had meaning, it had a story, but best of all it had a happy story.  The doc got all of the cancer, I was gonna be fine!  Praise God for the miracle of life, for the miracle of a micro premie that fought the odds and won, and continues to amaze us daily.  To look at her now you would never know the fight she fought, or how for 7 months we fought it together.  If ever you question there is a God, or if He is still in the Miracle business let me assure you he is just look at this Miracle, the answer to many prayers.  





ok so she is way more precious these days when she is sleeping.....lol She is my angel baby!   My sunshine on a cloudy day!  Our Rainbow bright, and her daddy's girl!   


Here is a pic of her at dinner after 8th grade graduation back in May.  I have Birthday pics to post but will do that tomorrow!!





Thank you Jesus for answering all of my prayers for her, even when I didn't deserve your attention.  Thank you for blessed assurance that you were always with me in those dark days carrying both of us  in your loving arms.  Thank you for entrusting me to care for her, love her and teach her about you Lord.  Thank you for making her in your image!  and May she always know how amazing we think she is and that our love for her is with out end just as your love for us is.  Amen  


Have a great day!!!  








Sunday, July 18, 2010

Summer busy = Good busy

I have been really busy.  Just the way a summer should be I think.  So let me recap for you the last couple weeks.
T was asked by our youth pastor several months ago to go and participate in a leadership camp called Super Summer.  We talked about it and since T thinks that maybe someday he wants to be a Youth Minister and the camp was being held at a Baptist College we thought that T would benefit.  So off to camp for 5 days he went and learned a lot and he is still interested in Youth Ministry.  T left on a Tuesday Morning and S was leaving on Thursday morning for Colorado w/ her BFF Erika and Erika’s Dad for a family reunion vacation in Colorado.  She went to Denver and Estes Park and lots of other places.  She was able to do some white water rafting, serious hiking(5 hour trips), went to the Wizard of Oz Museum in Kansas and since she just got home last night I am sure we will hear more about all that she got to do.  We are forever thankful to Ron and Erika for taking her along for a trip of a lifetime.  She called to check in when she first got into the “mountains” I asked her if they were pretty?  And she replied “Pretty doesn’t even begin, God out did himself on this painting!  You should see how many pictures I have taken”    I would totally insert Pic here but she lost her camera.  Hopefully it is in “family’s car” and will be mailed back to us soon!  T came home from Super Summer very pumped up and excited about all he had learned.  He was really excited when his Grandpa Mike asked him to help roof his house.  (I am so proud of him for the giving and loving heart he has.)  Not many 16 yr olds would want to go and help let alone do it alone in the heat but he did and he is really proud of the work they were able to get done.  Unfortunately GM got sick on Saturday and went down w/ a double inner ear infection.  Roofing has stopped for the time being.  T came home from GM’s and said his ear hurt too.  (I am thinking yeah right, GM has an ear infection and you want an excuse to not clean your room)  Then I look and the boy has crap oooooooozing out of his ear, GASP!!!   I know I know what a terrible parent I am but really the boy looked fine other than the grossness coming out of the ear.  So off to the ER we went.  So embarrassing to go to the ER on a Saturday w/ a 16 yr old for an EAR INFECTION I mean really what kind of mom doesn’t notice this stuff?   But nobody laughed and he not only had inner ear but outer and ruptured eardrum.  Now I get WORST PARENT of the year award.  Prayers for both are appreciated, and a little something for the guilt gut that I now have would be great! 

T and S are both leaving on Monday morning to go on a youth mission trip to the Baptist Children’s Home here in Illinois.  So there is much packing and preparation going on for that.  We may or may not let Taylor go depending on how well he does today w/ the ear infection. 

Since S was out of town, would be home for a couple of days and then off again I decided that it would be a good time to redo her room.  Well Since I don’t go upstairs often (teenagers live up there and it always causes a month long cleansing to get over my trips upstairs)  Her room was a mess!  So we got it all cleaned up and picked some paint (pale Sunshine which is according to everyone but me is just white paint).  Her room is in the upstairs, has these really cool angled walls and ceiling that are a real pain to paint and would cost a fortune to have dry walled so we decided that painting the ugly mismatched paneled walls would be much much easier and a lot cheaper.   YES YOU CAN PAINT THAT AWFUL STUFF and make it look AHHHmazing!!!!  I had done it before several times and have learned in my many adventures some tricks to make it a bit easier.  I will share those tips w/ all in another post/tutorial.  We had been thinking about doing her room for sometime so we had been buying, gathering, and searching for stuff for a while.  Her favorite color is yellow somewhere in the canary to neon range, and that was not going on the walls.  So we compromised and are painting her furniture Thai Silk which is that color between canary and neon we think.  I hope to finish it entirely this week while she is gone and will post pics then.   I hope that all is well w/ you all and you are working on your happy place!  Have a good day for this is the day the Lord has made!