A Day In My Life

Good Morning Family - Enjoy! I just had to share this because it was just that powerful.  This morning as I was keeping my superman, (Nathan), company during dialysis, I started browsing through my Facebook page and came across a most interesting comment. It said: Sometimes Our Lives Must Be Completely Shaken Up Changed and Re-arranged To Relocate Us To The Place We Are Meant To Be I read this and thought..REALLY? Is this where I am meant to be on the eve of 44 driving a minivan, stalled in a second career with 3 kids 2 of whom are autistic and 1 of which has kidney disease and is waiting for a transplant. I mean is this what I was born for? Do you ever ask yourself that? Well I am having moment and need to be completely honest; and by the way for the critiques who will try and pick this apart. Being honest, having doubt, not totally sure of the details that will lead to victory, angry if this is all there is to your life is just being real. It has nothing to do with m...

Greetings Readers, As we close up Resurrection Sunday's festivities, I am taken over by a thought...How about we don't? Just like Christmas these are days that are set aside to honor the Lord and His sacrifices to save us. So why do we have to close up shop? Why not have a celebration mentality all through the year? I challenge you as well as myself to keep the birth, death and victorious resurrection of our Lord and Savior in the forefront of your mind daily. The benefits are immediately beneficial! For example   You will walk in peace all the time that your thoughts are focused on the Lord that means when someone cuts you off you won't retaliate when someone steals your parking space you wont put nails under their tires when you are dealing with a difficult person you won't strike back in anger this one may require some practice You will be nice and people will actually want to be around you You will be more opened to your state of vulnerability and t...

As I have mentioned before- this is our season for challenge. Our eldest and middle cubs are on the mend but our youngest one is just having a rough go at it right now. He is scheduled for a surgical procedure in the morning, which is dependent on how his flu behaves. This is the third time in less than a month that we have been admitted to somebody's hospital somewhere - (big shout out to the Nurses and staff at MCV Pediatric ward). Our short term savings has been depleted, our energy comes and goes and our emotional strength was in the red. The thing about challenges is they rarely come in one neat little package. Take our youngest, who we knew he would one day have to have a kidney transplant closer to puberty. What we didn't know was that with the deterioration of his organs he would develop side complications. New word to add to your vocabulary Nephrotic syndrome. Basically this condition makes the body think its dehydrating while holding all of the body's fluid clos...

Greetings Cyber Family! Let me first start by apologizing for such a long absence from my writings. 2014 has just taken off at life-speed and I have accepted the fact that I may never catch up. With that said let me share with you what has been going on... My children from the youngest to the eldest have been struck with some type of illness. The eldest came in for spring break and ended up in the hospital, twice, and needed to extend her stay. She is back in school and recovering very well..the blessings of being 20. The middle child decided he needed to have a sore throat which turned into an infected lymph node; and the youngest said you know this would probably be a good time for my kidneys to drop in function. All of this within days sometimes hours of each other.  Coincidence? I think not. There is no such thing. A coincidence would suggest that no one is tampering with the events that are directly affecting your life. Its the same as thinking it is just bad luck..luck do...