Joel's Journey: where's my mommy?????

Monday, February 22, 2010

where's my mommy?????

Looks like Lilian/"Mavie" is lookin' for her momma!!!!! Her mommy was out hitting a few volley balls with Anna!

Oh, not too much to report around the fort today. Just a "extraordinary ordinary day!!" Kate came over this morning while Dave has some business. Bethany walked her through bread making. She uses the same recipe we use but it was not quite turning out like ours. Bethany and Kate came to the conclusion that maybe her wheat just needs to be ground up finer, an easy fix, just tighten the grinder thingy! Fixin' a big pot of stew and we have a big basket of rolls and there you have whats for dinner! I am all for one dish meals!

The guys are busy with work and jobs, thankfully! The Lord keeps allowing the phone to ring with job opportunities. The big school job I mentioned awhile back will be under way when ever the foundation gets poured, so it could be April before the guys get on that one.

Bethany is super busy with feeding baby goats and hopefully selling all these little baby bucks that the "buck fairy" left us, as someone said. We had another calf yesterday, this time a bull calf! I guess our farm is good at making males.......even human ones since we have 9 boys!!!! But we are keeping ours!!!

Good news with the guys music CD. Behemoth.com which is associated with Vision Forum is taking their cd on their site for downloads. They will get a nice percentage, which we are thankful for. If you have not got yours, we are still sending them out. Click the button at the top right!

I am ever so ready for Spring as others are too! It is sooo cold here and chances of snow again this week!!! Terry and Hosanna did plant spinach on Saturday. Actually he's a bit later than usual but its been way too wet in the garden.

Stay warm......

5 comments:

Mountain Mama said...: Mavie is adorable! Love those big eyes.

AND I love the term "buck fairy". We have one of those.
blessings,
ashley; February 22, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Teena said...: So cute!

We had beautiful weather this weekend.... it was up to 70! That is what we are use to this time of year in Georgia! We sat outside, took lots of pics but kept trying to upload some to my blog but it just wouldn't load! UGH.

Funny that last Saturday (13th) we had snow! It is suppose to get back down in the 30's....

Oh could you give me Anna's cheese cake recipe? It is Anna isn't it? I have made three cheese cakes in the last few months... and ONLY one of them turned out! I am doing something wrong!!

this is way to long.

Hugs,
Teena; February 22, 2010 at 9:12 PM
j said...: I wish I could get a bread lesson. Where do you get your wheat at?? Mine turns out so heavy and not too tasty so I have given up!

Glad the Lord is providing jobs!! He is so good.

jessica; February 23, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Dara Steward said...: That little Mavie is so sweet! I just think she is the prettiest little thing. I bet you all are loving having a little one around.

Still waiting for Eli's arrival. I'm praying for labor during the day and that the Lord would allow me to have another natural birth. We'll see what He has in store for us. ;o); February 23, 2010 at 9:03 PM
no one said...: How darling!!

Sarah G.; February 24, 2010 at 10:34 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.