6/1/2015
Today was a good day, actually God gave us another gorgeous Florida day! Plenty of warm sunshine, a tiny breeze and a splash of rain! Along with the weather came hope. A new nurse for Eric with a great attitude! New outlooks... He was trying to talk to her! When you have friends surrounding you and supporting you then you can keep believing things will get better.
The neurologist pretty much said, "This is how he is going to be" . As if Eric will always act like a 6 month old.
Followed by Shriner's visit who filled my empty cup back up! They see children do things doctors say they never can.
It is a roller coaster, but the good swoops outweigh the fear of climbing. I'm tired. So I pray for energy, wisdom and favor! I will never give up on what Eric is capable of, he already surpassed goals! God is in control!
Monday, June 1, 2015
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Strawberry Festival Parade
It's that time again! Strawberry Festival Parade Day!
Another year gone by that I could not predict a day of! The weather has gotten cold for us Floridians, now warming right back up, yay! Landon has 2 friends overnight to go to the parade. Hillary is on a date with Benson and they will go with 2 more of her friends. Mallory has her family and bunch of friends. Ryan will stay home with Ryder and I will take Calissa. We all dress in our "berry best"! It is a tradition that we go to eat at ABC Pizza and sit by the creek on the shady side and watch the lengthy but wonderful parade! In the evening we will go back and watch the "Happy Together" tour on stage. I love the festival at night with all the lights. The whole festival goes for 11 days and Plant City changes during this time. Lots of volunteers to make it all flow and thousands of people daily coming into town! This year I want to try these new homeade potatoe chips with strawberry sauce on them! Each year we try something new, also they have bacon on a stick dipped in pancake batter! This should be a fun year to let the grandbabies ride the rides! Paisley age 5, Calissa age 2, Cason age 2 and Ryder age 1. Then little man Eric age 4- he will probably do better at Busch Gardens.
Eric is not able to go as I took him the other day for a routine pulmonologist appt. which lead to going to USF for a check x-ray to discover his little coughs are a pneumonia- basically! But we caught it at the beginning so all is good! He probably caught this viral cold from all of us. He could go in his wheelchair for a short bit, but not if its too hot and the dust would be harmful to him right now.
Thoughts, on awesome preaching tonight- nobody can take away my beliefs or desires to serve God! The burning in my heart is priceless and Jesus put it there to save my soul! What peace that brings me when we go through turmoil. When I'm hurting and confused, I have that to comfort myself.
I wonder what this next year will bring. What plans I should be making. I haven't been able to plan our future for a couple years now as the courts have slowed it down. All my life I have been a "planner" and I'm not sure what to do now! So day by day is all I plan. Some week by week but that may be pushing it. Eric may live with us forever, or may be here in our home part-time. Until we get answers I need to learn to live more spontaneously. He certainly has had to.
No more pity party on myself!
We look forward to date nights, maybe a weekend trip to Daytona for Bike Week or Jeep Beach. Hopefully we will get a trip in May to Vegas- Greg wants to go see Donny and Marie Show! I love to just travel and go rather it is on the Harley, a plane or a train! Even the car or a cruise- with just us or the family, I love to travel!
Time for me to fall asleep, that nap I had today is messing my clock up!
Another year gone by that I could not predict a day of! The weather has gotten cold for us Floridians, now warming right back up, yay! Landon has 2 friends overnight to go to the parade. Hillary is on a date with Benson and they will go with 2 more of her friends. Mallory has her family and bunch of friends. Ryan will stay home with Ryder and I will take Calissa. We all dress in our "berry best"! It is a tradition that we go to eat at ABC Pizza and sit by the creek on the shady side and watch the lengthy but wonderful parade! In the evening we will go back and watch the "Happy Together" tour on stage. I love the festival at night with all the lights. The whole festival goes for 11 days and Plant City changes during this time. Lots of volunteers to make it all flow and thousands of people daily coming into town! This year I want to try these new homeade potatoe chips with strawberry sauce on them! Each year we try something new, also they have bacon on a stick dipped in pancake batter! This should be a fun year to let the grandbabies ride the rides! Paisley age 5, Calissa age 2, Cason age 2 and Ryder age 1. Then little man Eric age 4- he will probably do better at Busch Gardens.
Eric is not able to go as I took him the other day for a routine pulmonologist appt. which lead to going to USF for a check x-ray to discover his little coughs are a pneumonia- basically! But we caught it at the beginning so all is good! He probably caught this viral cold from all of us. He could go in his wheelchair for a short bit, but not if its too hot and the dust would be harmful to him right now.
Thoughts, on awesome preaching tonight- nobody can take away my beliefs or desires to serve God! The burning in my heart is priceless and Jesus put it there to save my soul! What peace that brings me when we go through turmoil. When I'm hurting and confused, I have that to comfort myself.
I wonder what this next year will bring. What plans I should be making. I haven't been able to plan our future for a couple years now as the courts have slowed it down. All my life I have been a "planner" and I'm not sure what to do now! So day by day is all I plan. Some week by week but that may be pushing it. Eric may live with us forever, or may be here in our home part-time. Until we get answers I need to learn to live more spontaneously. He certainly has had to.
No more pity party on myself!
We look forward to date nights, maybe a weekend trip to Daytona for Bike Week or Jeep Beach. Hopefully we will get a trip in May to Vegas- Greg wants to go see Donny and Marie Show! I love to just travel and go rather it is on the Harley, a plane or a train! Even the car or a cruise- with just us or the family, I love to travel!
Time for me to fall asleep, that nap I had today is messing my clock up!
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Mercy & Grace
This week has been quieter than normal, and I'm thanking God in advance for showing me mercy before I begin a new week! Proverbs 3:3 "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart" so stay kind and loving, and tell the truth all the time! Not when it's convenient, or you're in the mood, but bind it around your neck! Wow, when I write something on my heart, it has to be important!
It doesn't make me feel any better to be cruel when someone has hurt me, or I'm stressed out! Acting Christ like and showing others mercy helps me handle my bad days better!
Today I got to babysit two of my grandchildren, Calissa age 2 1/2 and Ryder age 1 1/2; I have Eric who is special needs and is age 4. I did not have his nurse today. I kept them all happy, fed, cleaned, lots of attention and hugs! Making them laugh and truly appreciating hearing them giggle! They were loving the sounds coming from each other. This doesn't mean they didn't fuss, or that I didn't need a break! I was happy they needed a nap just so I could get some housework done. Eric needs to be put in his stander device for an hour a day, I have to feed him via g-tube, give him meds, brush his teeth, bath him, put his AFO's on his feet, change diapers, and he didn't throw up today so he had a great day! I had a great day!
I always show him mercy, kindness, love, compassion.... Not because he is handicapped but he needs it. He deserves it. All humans do actually, all five of my grandchildren need it from me. That's how I want them to remember me when they are good and bad, happy and sad. So why do we not thrive to show that same kind of love to a person who cuts us off in traffic? Show means let them see. Be understanding or forgiving, don't take things so personal and lash out. Maybe their day is really awful and they didn't mean to cut you off?
I remember the weeks of turmoil we went through with Eric's accident. I'm sure I drove carelessly, I'm sure I seemed spacey, as our lives were turned upside down. Huge decisions, fear, headaches, bad eating, phones ringing, wrong directions, crying, lack of sleep, arguing, and no normal routine. We were thrown out of life it seemed. So maybe we don't see others problems, may be that is what they are going through- when they need mercy from you. Mercy & Grace
It doesn't make me feel any better to be cruel when someone has hurt me, or I'm stressed out! Acting Christ like and showing others mercy helps me handle my bad days better!
Today I got to babysit two of my grandchildren, Calissa age 2 1/2 and Ryder age 1 1/2; I have Eric who is special needs and is age 4. I did not have his nurse today. I kept them all happy, fed, cleaned, lots of attention and hugs! Making them laugh and truly appreciating hearing them giggle! They were loving the sounds coming from each other. This doesn't mean they didn't fuss, or that I didn't need a break! I was happy they needed a nap just so I could get some housework done. Eric needs to be put in his stander device for an hour a day, I have to feed him via g-tube, give him meds, brush his teeth, bath him, put his AFO's on his feet, change diapers, and he didn't throw up today so he had a great day! I had a great day!
I always show him mercy, kindness, love, compassion.... Not because he is handicapped but he needs it. He deserves it. All humans do actually, all five of my grandchildren need it from me. That's how I want them to remember me when they are good and bad, happy and sad. So why do we not thrive to show that same kind of love to a person who cuts us off in traffic? Show means let them see. Be understanding or forgiving, don't take things so personal and lash out. Maybe their day is really awful and they didn't mean to cut you off?
I remember the weeks of turmoil we went through with Eric's accident. I'm sure I drove carelessly, I'm sure I seemed spacey, as our lives were turned upside down. Huge decisions, fear, headaches, bad eating, phones ringing, wrong directions, crying, lack of sleep, arguing, and no normal routine. We were thrown out of life it seemed. So maybe we don't see others problems, may be that is what they are going through- when they need mercy from you. Mercy & Grace
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