A Mix Of Things

Yesterday, the day off work for the holiday wasn’t a day off for mommy or daddy as daddy worked still trying hard to clean up his year end stuff and mommy worked on getting the Christmas decorations down.  Rebekah was a big help in cleaning up:



The girls were doing remarkably well.  Medically Rebekah was just fine.  This was a change from how things have been but not all that unexpected.  Just before we go in for more chemotherapy is usually when she is at her best.  We are off to the hospital this morning for blood tests (to confirm she is well enough to receive chemo) and to start the next round.  This is normally the short 3 day round and will be even shorter this time as we have “maxed” out on one of the drugs so we will not be receiving it this time.  It’s possible we will be home in 24-36 hours.

Yesterday mommy and the girls made cookies.  I think the girls mostly watched but Rebekah did like to turn the mixer on and off.  It is the first time in very very very long that mommy got to do something like that and that’s really neat.  She was making cookies for the other families of kiddos in the hospital.  Something about the holidays but it seems that all of our schedules are actually going to meet this week.  Mommy is “re-gifting” some of the kindness that has been paid to us.  

We also just wanted to say thank you again for all that everyone is doing.  Each and every bit of help just brings us to tears.  And what’s tough is knowing that we are still going to need more.  This is where we get torn.  Our hearts ache so much for all the other kiddos and their families and we want to share them and all of their needs with you but then at the same time we are afraid that there is a “limited” amount of help out there and if we share all of them with you that you will think our needs are over.  We know its not true and are grateful that there is unlimited amount of what we need most – prayer – available, but still we sometimes feel that way.  Then we feel bad for feeling that way.

Please pray for a quick chemo without complications as well as a recovery period better than we can expect.