Joel's Journey: its cold, its boring and I'm freezing!!!!!!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

its cold, its boring and I'm freezing!!!!!!

Warning: "no new pictures" for the next 6 days, Anna took the camera!!!!! The two groups are off to the North. One group to Kansas and the other to Wisconsin. It has been busy getting them all ready the last few days, but all accomplished!!! So the folks that remain here are Terry and I, Bethany, Josh, Jeremiah, Hosie, Siah and Mercy! It could really get quite boring for the next 6 days. You would think that having "older" children, that they would be the "lowest maintenance," but NOT, the younger children do well, playing and do not keep up with days coming and going. Its the older ones that keep the doors blowing open!!! Plan to do this, do that, go here, go there, next week this is happening, we gotta go, go, go, go!!!! I might actually have a reprieve of such,LOL!!!

It is absolutely so cold here!! I can hardly function. I find myself with coffee in front of the wood stove hibernating. There are surely things I could be accomplishing but I do not have much motivation. Terry and Bethany went to get feed, he will have some errands in OKC tomorrow, Kate will be here tomorrow spending the day as Dave has business and they are also going to make us dinner.....sounds good to me!!!! Caleb, Daniel and Dave are waiting to hear back on an offer they have made on 160 acres of land east of us and a little south. Hope it all works out, but if not we rest that the Lord has something even better!!!

I told you this was going to be "boring." If anything exciting happens I'll keep you posted, until then I'm heading to the coffee station and then the chair that is by the wood stove!!!!

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7 comments:

j said...: It is funny you say how cold and boring it is. I am feeling the same way!! After the holiday time I get a bit restless and bored and feel liked I am being caged in. I am learning contentment constantly. I do not know if you really meant it is hard to function because of the cold but if you did mean that I was going to tell you to start taking Iodine drops.....google it. I used to get frozen while everyone else was fine.......I figured out being low on iodine can cause that(thyroid stuff)it works..... anyway sorry you arent motivated now, me neither and I hate that. I hate being so blah!!! Have fun with only 6 home. How strange for you :) Take care.

Jessica; January 7, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Teena said...: It is cold here too... not as cold as there... I am sure.. But cold for us in South Georgia.

I am praying for you. I think about you so often. We do the hot chocolate in front of the heater!

Hugs,
Teena; January 7, 2010 at 4:00 PM
-stephanie- said...: We just got several inches of snow here in Wisconsin, so the skiing should be good. And a warmish 24 degrees. Quite pleasant. I just got done shoveling for the 4th time today. Enjoy the wood stove, the coffee and the "quiet".; January 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Sharon said...: We are cold too Cindy - but not as cold as you. Our Florida blood thinks it's pretty bad though. Even the Iguanas are freezing. When the temp. dips in the 40's the lizards become immobile and lose their grip. They have been seen falling out of trees this week! Poor guys.
Take the cold time to make extra family memories - they will remember it forever.; January 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Jessica said...: Remember, as you've posted before, boring is good!

We got several inches of snow yesterday and, with the windchill, we're down near zero at times. My husband went to a warmer part of the country (Corpus Christi) for a Marine Corps commitment until Sunday. The children and I are keeping up with animal chores, which means breaking up plenty of ice in the water buckets!; January 8, 2010 at 5:37 AM
Mark's Mommy said...: In response to your previous post...I am trying to "hold fast" as Jesus commands. The days seem so long sometimes.

Take care and stay warm.

Angie; January 8, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Carol said...: Psalm 30...."I cried out to You and You heard me. You have raised me out of the pit. I will praise You with song. Weeping lasts for the night, but joy comes in the morning". I know you miss Joel so much, but you are doing so amazingly well and have such a household! I have twin grandsons and I really liked your picture, "forever twins"; January 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM

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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.