Joel's Journey: its wednesday!!!!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

its wednesday!!!!

granite in the window sills installed!

Made it through another year of not having Joel here, thankful for grace given every step of the way! Was blessed to pass out many copies of Joel's Journey DVD's at church Sunday! And we have had many requests via e-mail, so thank you for asking! As long as I can keep sharing, telling others his story, and just knowing "one" more knows of him, is a comfort for sure!!! Thank you again for praying specifically for the day!! I read a verse this morning. Ps. 28:7, The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. I like the phrase," my heart trusted in him and I am helped." There was a time in the grieving journey that I did not trust Him, but because of His merciful kindness to not leave me alone, the Holy Spirit worked in my heart and brought me to a place where my heart fell upon his truth and I trusted his plan for Joel and really that is the place and time that my heart "felt" helped. The faith and trust has not healed but it has "helped." So with a song in my heart I can praise Him until.......I see Joel again!!!

Wednesday....means our regular cleaning day! Everyone does their "big" chores on this day and it at least gives a sense of clean for a short time anyway! Its kinda funny, Micah has gotten outta two chores, mopping the kitchen floor and wiping down the "old" white cabinets....neither are there....hahaha!!! At least only a short span of the old cabinets anyway and its not worth it!!! hahah!!!! And since the concrete floor is painted, who sees dirt now??????

I got outta fixen dinner the last two nights, Bethany had Monday and Anna Tuesday. I am on for tonight. And Lucas is coming......I told Bethany to tell him we were having fried green tomato sandwiches and cheetoes!! hahah!!!! Not really!! BBQ beef sand and roasted potatoes!!! Anna is pitching in on the dessert. She made Lucas cookies the other night at 10:30 pm, she is going to be a faithful "sister-in-law!!!!!"

Got our granite in the window sills yesterday, looks neat!! Hopefully next week the island!!! Yipee!! I am hoping I can convince someone to do the back splash this weekend!! hint hint for whoever read this!!!

Hosanna's bd is behind us but if you remember its birthday season for us. Jeremiah 18th of Feb, Mercy is 19th of March and Andrew 21st of March and then Josh April 2nd! Thank you for all teh sweet comments about the party, it was fun but work! Looking on line for ideas is fun. The potatoe head cake pops I found there and the idea for the cake. So make sure you look too and get ideas for your parties!!! Just google a theme!!

Can you believe it, Friday its suppose to be 68 degrees!!!!!!!!!!!!! Am I ever excited!!!! I think I will sit outside ALL day and hope to get sunburned!!!!!!!!!

Have a great evening!!!!!

3 comments:

Jessica said...: The granite is beautiful. We'll be in the high 30s later this week... and we're grateful for that! Oh, spring is just around the corner...; January 27, 2011 at 5:26 AM
Zimms Zoo said...: have you ever looked at Catch my party? Gorgeous parties and LOTS of ideas.

http://catchmyparty.com/; January 28, 2011 at 3:16 PM
Teena said...: It was beautiful here today... was up to 70!!

My Wyatt will be 9 next week (6th) and he still loves LEGO's so I am not sure what we will do yet.

Love all your pics of your remodeling.

Yes, I thought of you a lot this past week... and especially on Sunday!

much love,
Teena; January 30, 2011 at 12:42 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.