Joel's Journey: Work.....at our house!!!!

Friday, February 27, 2009

Work.....at our house!!!!

Work, work....... and its at OUR house this time, YEA!!!!!! The guys had a few days in between jobs and the resources were there to get the Build Block foam blocks and then fill them up with concrete. Its progress and this mommy is thrilled!!! I do not know how long it will be before the next phase, the roof, but its neat to get this done!!! The big opening will be French Doors and then two windows on each side of it, the kitchen window over the sink will be a triple window and then on the north wall there is a small window that will be in front of a small sink, like a vegetable sink. This morning I left the house around 5:45 am to go grocery shopping and made it back home around noon only to feed a hungry mob. I had put a goat roast in the crock pot, so we were in good shape. Bethany had made the buns which I was so grateful for. Now we are just cleaning up around here, Elijah is putting up a cross fence and Terry might get to the garden in a bit. It is very, very cold today, yesterday it was in the high 70^ I have not forgotten about the recipes but I'll have to wait for Anna to help, I do not like typing all that out! Have a great weekend!!!

4 comments:

Mandy said...: I'm so excited about your new addition to your house! I know you guys are going to enjoy having the extra room to stretch out. I'm a little jealous of your new kitchen. It sounds like it is going to be very nice. Congrats! Hope the next phase comes soon!; February 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Anonymous said...: WOW!!!!!!!!!! =O Those pictures look MAJOR! How exciting!!! Can't wait to see it in person!:); February 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM
John-Clay said...: I really like the pic of Mr. M on the phone - REAL nice pic!! It would be a nice picture for the construction website :); February 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM
LJR said...: How exciting to have new space at your house! That will be wonderful, I can't wait to see it when its all done.

Praying and thinking of you always,
Lori; March 1, 2009 at 4:46 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.