I'm pleased that he's very talkative when sharing things of interest, like his "Family Book" that his sister Milly made and sent to him. He LOVES showing it off and naming each person! He can tell me whose house each picture was taken in, "MY house!" or when it was taken: "Joel's birfday!" And with some he'll give other captions, like "Milly Christmas hat, Christmas tree, Shrek Story PRESENTS!" and "Marshall chocolate face", and "Graf is like Prince Charming." Joel likes to place each person he knows as a character from his favorite movies.
We're homesick. I feel so terrible about missing ALL of these WEEKS with my other babies! Lora had barely been home and then she was thrown into life as a mother (sorry I'm missing this time with you too, Lora, and thank you!!!) plus she's in school full time...Gabe is helping when he can, (thank you Gabe!!) plus he works full time...and friends from church are doing the care taking when Lora and Gabe are both gone and Mike's at work (Thank you, friends!!!).
The little ones are getting sick; they have runny noses again (frequent sinus infections) and Mike said Ella was croupy last night. This is why Joel and I can't be home yet. I'd hoped for us to go home by this coming Monday, but maybe at least by the end of March?? I'm experiencing daily jaw pain and headaches...maybe from stress? We've decided to take some of the pressure off by waiting another year to sell our house/buy another. It makes me sad to miss more time with my dad, siblings and cousins. I always worry that it'll be too late! But we need more time to heal, regroup and be ready for more big changes.
We'll keep praying! I'm praying for many of you out there, that also have big trials in your lives right now. My heart goes out to you!
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I'm so glad to see Joel smiling! I'm happy that he loves his family so much that they give him a reason to smile!
You have been in my thoughts and prayers. I am so sorry this is taking so long. It takes its toll. We brought Bella home from CA at the end of January. She actually came "home" to our home in July. We spent almost all of that time in the hospital - except a few days between surgeries. It was harder than I want to remember. Hugs my friend.
I don't know if you do, but I grind my teeth in my sleep, and when I'm stressed I grind hard enough to have tender teeth, sore jaw, stiff neck, and even headaches. I wonder if that may be what's happening with you?
When Rud and I were gone at the beach, celebrating our anniversary, I was relaxed and don't think I even ground them, but now that I'm home, pressed with tons on my do-list, the grinding has started up again!
Hope you feel better and are able to return home in the near future! :) XO
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