What a WEEK!

Well first of all I wanted to update you that Avery’s results came back almost PERFECT!  Her Hemoglobin F was where it should be as was her Monocyte count!  The only thing that they found that was cause for some monitoring is that her red blood cells (not all of them though) are the wrong shape.  They are what is called Piculated.  Right now it could mean nothing.  We will just be monitoring her weight and have another blood test in a month and a half to check it again.  We really believe that a miracle happened.  The Dr. absolutely can not explain her weight gain.

Another huge thing that happened this week is that Owen asked “Jesus into his heart” (so to speak in Christianese!)  He had started asking me a lot about death because he knows my mom died before he was born.  I answered all his questions as honestly as I could and as simply as I could for his level.  We started talking about Heaven and Hell and Jesus etc.  He decided he wanted to go to heaven to be with Jesus when he dies some day.  He got so excited about seeing Jesus.  We talked more about what that meant and he decided he wanted that.  We prayed together, it was so beautiful!  So he turns 5 and gives himself to God

THEN he and Lukas had swim lessons all week and they both learned to swim!  AND he learned to ride without training wheels yesterday.  Next week he graduates from Preschool (sniff sniff)… time is flying.

Kathy Ireland and Her PR Tour

When I first saw Kathy Ireland taking on a PR tour I listened to what she had to say.  Of course her message of mother overwhelmed struck a chord with me.  At the same time it didn’t seem like a super unique message.  I mean, how many of us have the same story?  Sure it is encouraging to see this gorgeous woman was able to let herself go from supermodel body to 30 lbs overweight because of her hagged schedule.  We can relate right?  But it also seemed like a pretty normal non-unique message… though I appreciated her humble nature to be so transparent with the public.  Still despite the fact that her story wasn’t uncommon I was drawn to her in every interview I saw.  Her demeanor is simply beautiful.  It wasn’t till this interview however that I realized why I was so drawn to her.  She is not only beautiful and a great mom who also runs a successful company, but she is bright, intelligent, thinks for herself.  She is a sister and she cherishes life.  Please take the 7 minutes or so to hear more of her story and catch the beauty that is not only outside her, but truly inside as well.

Hotel to Heaven

On way back from hilton head vacation this week.

Me: Wow look at this fog. this bridge looks like it’s going up into heaven. Look Owen we are driving to heaven!

Owen: I don’t want to go to heaven.

Me: (gasp) What? Why not?

Owen: I want to go to the Hotelllllllllllll! (trailing whine)

Me: Oh honey, heaven is much nicer than the hotel.

Funny, a 3-year-olds perspective. Maybe it is light-shedding. Remember being younger, (some of you,) and thinking, “I don’t want to go to heaven until after I get married and have kids…” Or “I want to be a (fill in the blank) before I go to heaven.”

God has to be up in heaven hearing that and giggling at what we think would be a “must reach destination” before heaven.