Joel's Journey: Advent/day 2

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Advent/day 2

The Advent idea is a big hit at this house!! Ha! Soooo today day 2!!! With eager hands the red envelope was opened!!! COFFEE SHAKES!!! ....and no we are not doing coffee things everynight!!! haha!! Course we LOVE coffee so nothing would be wrong with it if we did!!! But the fun thing about coffee shakes tonight is, we get to drink them out of dressed up jars! Don't the jars just look all warm and cheer-eeeeee! I love that word!! We have done coffee shakes forever! Lumps of ice cream and then pour cold coffee over, stirring and get the "just right" consistency and then just sit back and suck er' down!!!!!

Hope your slowing down, hence the motion photo of our tree, and celebrating the birth of Christ!! Terry is reading in the book of Luke each evening as well!

Have a great evening!!

2 comments:

Teena said...: I just love this. How cute! We are not coffee drinkers here but I bought some ice cream and candy to make milkshakes! I love the straws. Where did you find them!

Thanks for sharing.; December 3, 2012 at 8:34 PM
LJR said...: Those Jar's are adorable I might steal that idea for Sunday when we put up our tree. I need to get some jars anyway. Of course ours will chocolate shakes, not one coffee drinker in our house, yes we are weird.; December 4, 2012 at 8:19 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.