Well its Sunday afternoon-- love those times..its typically quiet and calm..yesterday we made it to the recital and stayed the whole time..then we stayed till the ward bbq which was nice to be around such awesome ward members...then we got home and i got everyone bathed and ready for bed..the santos' came over and we played a good game of pollyanna- which i won! WHOO HOO!! jon was SO wiped out..he was ready for bed..he quickly fell asleep..
this am i got up and the nurse helped to get jon ready and sis. kennedy helped to get the girls ready..we all really worked hard as a team to get us there..the nurse then went to sleep until we got home..
jon is just SO tired right now..he's crashed out in his chair in the "pressure release" position..im going around the house picking it up after a crazy weekend..i feel like i just want to sleep for 3 days now!!
its anna's 4th bday - so were going to do a little family celebration..im hoping i have a cake mix and frosting in my pantry somewhere! which seems to be having issues with ants right now - SO BUGGED!!!
i think today were a little overwhelmed with things..we're just trying to figure out how we're going to make our business work and succeed. Jon literally did everything for it...and trying to tweak it - its a HUGE challenge..were so grateful to his family that are here helping us with that..but still..its something that's constantly on our mind and continues to make us nervous..
Mark gets married next saturday - this whole time we thought it was friday! so its now saturday at 1pm...it was originally at 10am..were SO thankful it got moved to 1pm! makes a HUGE difference for our family!! jon forgets that its not just a 5 minute thing to get him into the car- its tyically more like 15-20!!
its interesting for me to think...i feel like im just drowning in whats goin on in my life that i cant even IMAGINE what it would have been like if jon wasnt in his current condition..i alwasy ponder..where would we be? how would the business be doing? where would we be with that? what kinds of things would i be doing with the kids? would we have gone anywhere with them being out of school? how many OC visits would we have made these past 3 months? sometimes i think about the things jon "would have" been doing and it makes me terribly sad...now...its like living with someone 3 times my age..its just not the same...its a fine line i walk..to have to stay careful not to let Satan destroy what happiness i have left in our family..i will find myself staring at this OUTRAGEOUSLY HUGE balloon our friends the dobberts gave us the day of jons accident...would you believe its still FLOATING!?!??! it is!!! i look at it and i think thats kind of like our family..first off were HUGE..its got TONS of smiley faces on it..and yet its pretty rathered looking, you can physically see some of the airs come out of it..its starting to wrinkle....and YET its STILL FLOATING!! were still trying to hang in there or hang "up" there..even though our life is pretty rathered right now..were still trying to stay afloat!! the balloon says "get well soon" and it helps to remind me..that yes in fact soon, he WILL be well...
well enough rambling from me!! we want to express my sincere thanks to those that have helped our family these past 3 months...this has been quite the trial and challenge for EVERYONE to try to figure out how to best help our family..im thankful for those that email, send cards, pray, fast, call me before they stop off at the store, show up at my house and manage to quietly clean it, or play with the kids, or visit with jon, or watch me cry, hold my hand, make us laugh, those that show a sincere interest in helping us, those that bring jon a green burrito, there are so many things!! were thankful for the families that pray together for our behalf...that is a wonderful thing..and to see jons movements..he can now move his big right toe, his right index finger AND NOW all of his toes on his right foot!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE we continue to ask you to pray for more movement...im not sure i've shared this but when jon first felt pressure..it was in his big right toe..and that was the first movement he had- we have to keep going from here!!! i know we can!! PLEASE also pray that we find a more natural solution to his bowel situation..he actually had movement WITHOUT having to take the ducolax..help us to find something that works well with his body...PLEASE pray that all this pain is for a purpose..and that his brain will communicate with the rest of his body..that it will make a connection..we were originally told that he would be paralyzed for life from the neck down, he'd have NO movement, he'd be on a respirator...look how far we've come - truly a miracle and the power of the priesthood, prayer, faith and fasting of others...how incredibly thankful we are..truly we thank you..
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So you have to tell us about the Pollyanna game. I am so interested to find out about it. So glad Jon is going to the bathroom on his own. There is so much power in prayers!
jons not quite going on his own..were just trying to find something other then the ducolax..we have a long way till jon can go "on his own"..so thats why we continue to ask for more prayers regarding this situation..
In Luke 8 there was a woman who had a disease of the blood, which she had for 12 years and no doctor could heal her. She came behind Christ and touched the hem of His garment and immediately she was healed. Jesus asked "Who touched me"? When the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before Him, and declared for what cause she had touched him and was healed. And He said unto her, "Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole". Right now it must be hard to feel comforted. Heavenly Father loves you and feels your emotional pain. If it were physically possible, he would let you crawl into his lap and He would hold you and comfort you. Imagine how you would feel. When you are feeling low, imagine that feeling again and know that He is cheering you on from the sidelines.
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