"After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you."
1 Peter 5:10
I worked until 5:00 tonight and had alot of anxiety on my drive home knowing that I'd be taking Nicholas' bandages off. I prayed the entire way home. By the time I pulled into the garage I was at peace and felt God's loving arms around me, strengthening me. After we ate dinner, it was time to remove the bandages. The spot that was on his ear at his checkup was gone (Dr. Jones cut it off, thinking it was a stitch. Of course, I had managed to convince myself that it was so much more, given Nicholas' track record) and what remains is a dried up loose stitch just waiting to come off. I think his ear looks great, but there is still alot of healing to be done. It is quite red (but I'll take red any day over brown/black) and is still quite swollen, to the point that there isn't much definition, but I haven't seen anything this beautiful in a long time! Please pray for continued healing for Nicholas' ear. The last time, the skin graft didn't start failing until a day after the bandages were off. While I am not dwelling on previous times, it will be a few weeks before I feel confident that this is it! Let me just tell you, I have not stopped thanking God for His blessings and the smile on my face keeps getting bigger and bigger.
As always, thank you for blessing us with your prayers.
Speaking of prayers, I'm sure most of you have been following baby Stellan, but if you haven't been, please lift prayers up for his healing as well. If he isn't already in heart surgery, he will be either tonight or tomorrow morning.
It's here. After hearing for almost six years "You need to wait until Nicholas is 6" we have now heard "Just give us a call when you want to set something up!" YIKES! It's taken me awhile to process that statement. We both liked Dr. Jones in Atlanta, and I will call to get a surgery date scheduled...but YIKES YIKES YIKES. I thought this surgery would be a piece of cake, compared to the canalplasty. But I'm quickly discovering that no surgery is a piece of cake when it's your child that is being operated on. And it's us that is making the life-changing decision for him. What a huge decision to make. This is where I get down on my knees and put it in God's hands, and trust that He leads us in the right path. I did that last April, and I still marvel at the calmness I felt. I know that I need to "let go, and let God" again, so why am I having a much harder time this time around? We received approval from our insurance company for the surgical procedures, and Dr. Jones is in our network, so that is terrific news! Another year of reaching our out-of-pocket max will soon be upon us...
I can't believe that Christmas will soon be here. I am nowhere ready. Yes, the house is decorated. The cards have been sent. But shopping? As Nicholas would say..."I dunno." I'm just out of ideas. And I guess I need to decide if I will be making any scrapbook items for anyone. Because that will need to get started yesterday!
Here are a few of my very favorite pictures of our last trip to Charlottesville. It is such a beautiful town, and we found the downtown historic section, where they had the brick road blocked off to traffic. There were all kinds of cute shops and restaurants (Scott was glad it was a Sunday morning when we discovered it, as all the stores were still closed!). And a really huge chalkboard set up for graffiti. Of course, I asked Nicholas to leave his mark!
Off to go help in the Kindergarten classroom with crafts. As long as glue bottles aren't set out, it should go smoothly! Next on my list is cleaning up the dining room scrapbook room to see if I can get some creativity flowing!
Have a great day...make it count!
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