Crazy weekend but one to count our blessings. We say so often how thankful we are everyday for all of the blessing we have been given but this weekend made us think hard how truly blessed we are. We had a great night with Camden lighting the tree at PPG Place for Pittsburghs Light Up Night. We were flooded with emotions during the ceremony and so thankful that we are still able to be enjoying each day with our precious son who is going to turn 6 in one week. He got his first birthday present of the year in the mail and it was a Joy Jar from NEGU (an organization that sends little jars of joy to kids with cancer in honor of their daughter who passed away from cancer). A few years ago we remember thinking we would never see any of these days we have been blessed with because we were so full of fear from the cancer diagnosis. We are now celebrating the third year of his birthday since that diagnosis and what a warrior he is. Just incase anybody wondered at one week from 6 years old he will gladly tell you his homerun total is now over 250 (including outdoor and basement baseball homeruns :). He doesnt worry as we do he just keeps playing and smiling. We still have plenty that we could be afraid of with Josh getting progressively sicker at what his rheumatologist called an abnormal rate of speed, Camdens chemotherapy treatment working and his body being able to heal, and the list is extensive to go on and on but like I said before the craziness of the weekend made us think that these things even if they are fully gone or healed still does not guarantee the next moment so we need to be thankful for each moment we are given. My youngest sister Katie picked up her son from our home Saturday morning and headed down to the Childrens Museum with him and her daughter and ended up being one of the vehicles involved in the pile up due to black ice. I had to take my parents to pick her and the kids up at the hospital and they are only 7 and 3 so they didnt quite grasp the whole situation but Praise The Lord they were all able to be released. I have said many times before that some of the kindest and cutest things come from children and this time it was no different. Julian who is 7 said Chrissy I was scared but I had to be ok because Camden would be so sad if I wasnt and then as I dropped them off he said this is for Camden. He got him a comfort pack that the doctors gave him and Brooklyn at the hospital because he said he needed one too. They were calmed down today and I picked them up to come and play. As they were playing we got another phone call that Joshs pap had been taken to the hospital again. Initial information was he had another stroke but Praise The Lord again that was not what we found out after we got the call with further testing he has an infection. All of this being said it makes us think again how quickly things can change and as life often does it made me think of the song I have used over and over in posts but I love it because the words ring so true Sidewalk Prophets Live Like That. We got another wake up call to make The Lord and people matter the most not just this coming Thursday but everyday :)
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:34:11 +0000
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