Joel's Journey: on the home front

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

on the home front

Well, everything is fairly quiet on the home front today! Jeremiah is a bit under the weather, but he did go out in the pasture and played a little football! Bethany is waiting for a fellow from Arizona to come pick a Boer buck up that she sold. Tomorrow we will take in 4 boer wethers to get butchered. A lot of meat for the freezer! The Tulsa State fair is on the burner for the weekend, its the Boer show this time. Bethany is hoping to get her papers back in for the new buck she just purchased on Sat. so she can show him! She made a new post on her blog and tells you about him. The guys are still framing but heavy rain is due in this evening and all day tomorrow so they will likely be here. Terry, Micah and Andrew are at another job site taking down braces. We are extra blessed with all these "guys" that can work!! I am suppose to go grocery shopping tomorrow. I am trying right now to make my lists and all, but nothing sounds good. I am excited to get the paint and glaze for the girls room when I go out tomorrow. The beds are not ready yet but hopefully it will only be another week or so. Mercy SAYS she is going to sleep in hers, we'll see :) When I get it all done, I'll post before/after pictures. Remember the tomatoes? I got them in the freezer. There were sooo many, I decided the easiest process would be freeing. We need to go pick again today!!!

Thats about it for now, I'll leave you with some pictures..........

We lost power right when we were ready to publish this, around 5pm, so a bit delayed Its about 7:20pm now......Terry hooked up the generator, so we have cords, water and can use the bathroom and the internet!!!! :)

7 comments:

The Ahlgren Family said...: Hope ya'll have power back now! Let us know if you need anything!
You mentioned Miah being sickish... we got your four jars filled at my mom's tonight! :) Prayerfully, that will help!
The pics are cute! I really like that last one of Siah and Hosie!; October 8, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Janet said...: Last year we had major "load shedding" they called it. We had no power every second day for 6 hours at a time. There was a shortage of power (never mind the fact that SA were selling massive amounts to Zimbabwe!!) It seems to have been sorted out now though and they have promised no power cuts this year! :)
What happy photos today! Have a blessed day, with love from SA!; October 8, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Jessica said...: How do you like the Boer meat processed? (ground, stew meat, etc.) Also, how old are the wethers that you're having butchered?

Any favorite recipes to share?; October 8, 2009 at 5:44 AM
Hannah B. said...: Love the pictures, *Cowgirl* - especially the ones of Siah and Hosie. :); October 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Leanne said...: Great pictures!; October 8, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Alison said...: I have a little Mercy too! She'll be three in November. I was so excited when I read that you had a Mercy in your profile, I just had to take a peak here at your blog. You have a beautiful family!; October 9, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Anonymous said...: Yes, how do you prepare the meat? We do lots of vension.

LOVE the pics!

Hugs
Teena; October 10, 2009 at 12:09 AM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.