Baby Deanna

*Update again ****
Visit coloradokrafts.blogspot.com for a complete story from Jami. Great pictures!


Deanna had a wonderful day yesterday. She is off the vent, just on room temp air through a cannula, off her blood pressure meds, and off pain meds. Jami was able to hold her for the first time yesterday! They also put a cast on her leg to start the correction process of her club foot.
She has a long road ahead of her, but is improving everyday.
Please keep praying for this precious baby girl and her family!

Katie

Pray

*Update*
Deanna is in the NICU and stable. The doc's still don't know for sure what all is wrong with her, and lots of tests are still being run. Jami is doing well physically and being the most amazing mother that baby could ever ask for.
God is good.
Please pray for this little one, pray for complete healing

Katie


Please pray for my dear friend Jami whose baby was born this morning and is very sick. I don't know the details, but I know she needs prayer. The baby's name is Deanna.

Three months

It has been three months.

Three really long months. Three months of thinking about her every minute, every hour. Three months of wishing she were here to call, to laugh with, to run errands with, to see her babies.

I miss her so much.

I think about these last two years and how fast it all happened. At the time, it seemed like time dragged on. Appointment after appointment, hospital stay after hospital stay. She suffered for so long, and she was so tired. She fought so hard. She promised she would. She was amazing.

God had bigger plans for her though. Plans I may not understand right now, but it isn't for me to understand or not. His plans are greater. She is at peace. Finally not in any pain. How could I ask for more for her?

I still miss her though. I still wish she were here with me today.

I go through my day thinking how much she left here with me. A thought in my mind, an action carried out, a rainy day and the smell that we are left with afterward. Enjoying each day to the fullest, hugging my kids, playing silly games that she made up with them. When it thunders really hard, my kids think Grandma is bowling with Jesus. I love thunder.

I miss her.

I am trying to have a new outlook on life. Each day is new, and the only one we have. My God is big and mighty and there isn't anything he can't do. He grants me peace beyond understanding and I am very thankful for that. I certainly couldn't have it on my own.

She was an amazing woman, and she gave it all she had. So now, I give it all I have. It is really hard to do sometimes, but I keep trying. One day at a time, one foot in front of the other. Loving my life and the memories of my amazing mother I hold so dear.

My Son

I got a call yesterday afternoon that I have been waiting on for months. A spot finally opened up at the preschool I wanted Jacob to attend! The teacher called excited to tell me the news, as she was also Madison's teacher and has known Jacob since he as little.

I was so excited to get the call, I was having trouble deciding what to do with my boy if preschool wasn't an option. He is such a smart little man, and he loves to play with other kids. However, he is a bit shy, and a classroom environment is something new to him. I think it is just what he needs. He is so excited for school. He cried so many times last year as Madison got on the bus. He really wanted to go too.

I was watching the kids run through the sprinkler this morning and thinking how much he has grown up. He is the middle child, and has every trait that comes with being the middle child. We are in the thick of serious training with him right now, and it tends to be discouraging and disheartening. It is days like today though, when I sit back and watch him running and playing in the water that I realize just how far he has come, how sweet he is, how gentle he is with his siblings, and how very very much I love him.

It is bittersweet signing him up for preschool. I can't believe he is old enough. I also can't believe I will have two kids in school next year. Time is going by so fast. I still so vividly remember the day he was born and my mom was crying as the doctors proclaimed "it's a boy!" She wiped the tears from my eyes and said "it's a boy honey, we have a son!" That is a memory, I will never, ever forget. She was so proud.....

So for today I am enjoying my kids during the summer when I have them all day, here with me, all to myself. Some days are longer than others, but He grants me strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.

New Chapter

Well I finally decided to start my own blog, for me and about my life. I previously had a blog I set up for my mom as she batteled pancreatic cancer. I felt then like I had something to say, and now I feel like I just want to document our life. It feels very different blogging this time. I don't know if anyone will read it, but that's okay.

I am not a writer...at all. In fact I am not very good at it. I tend to write how I am thinking and that can be confusing... even for me. So if you are reading this, don't expect to be blown away by my increadible writing style.





So, on to the blogging.....



This weekend I spent with my possie (my friends) at a cabin in the mountains. It was so pretty and so peaceful. We talked, and shopped and laughed until we couldn't stop. It was wonderful. I then raced home Sunday to spend the day with my dad and my wonderful husband. We ate burgers at the park and played barefoot kickball with the entire famiily. It was a blast!



It is a busy week ahead, with lots of summer fun. It is already going by so quickly! My baby will be in second grade! Can you believe that? Ugh.. sooo fast.



It is finally nice outside. It has been soo rainy. It feels like summer now and I am thankful for it. Is so different having kids is school all year. It makes you appriciate the summers and the fun times you have with your kids. I am loving the time we have together.



I am beginning to be random, so I will quit for today. I am sure there will be more randomness to post another time!