Joel's Journey: garden 2013

Friday, January 18, 2013

garden 2013

Ground breaking for the 2013 garden year!!!! Three little entrepreneurs have joined the gardening ranks and have plots they will manage and work themselves and then take their produce to Farmers Market this Spring! Hosanna, Josiah and Mercy!! The first of Feb. will be the beginning of seeds to go in the ground! As always, we look forward to the Lord growing our garden and bringing rain!! Josh and Jeremiah are looking into more of wood working things to take!! We'll let ya know what their product will be!! Hahaha!!!!

Monday will hold a new chapter for Elijah! He will begin his new job working for the railroad out of Enid Oklahoma as a conductor! He does have training for several months but then it's on the train he'll go!! Terry will greatly miss his skills and abilities with the construction business. It really has been amazing how the Lord provided and how out of 60 applicants that Elijah and 14 others were chosen.

Have a great weekend!!

3 comments:

Jessica said...: My hubby is a supervisor for BNSF in OKC.....if Elijah ends up transferring to OKC, maybe he'll run into Kirby! If he has any questions or anything at all, feel free to contact us! Navigating all the rules/regulations can be a bit overwhelming at first! But it's a great job and all I've ever known (Kirby is the 10th person from my family to work for the railroad)!!!
BTW....I found your blog thru Jessica Whitts blog (who is a friend of my sister)!
Good luck to Elijah! You'll have to make his ringtone for when he calls you "I've been working in the railroad"! That's Kirby's for mine and it cracks me up every time he calls, LOL!!!; January 19, 2013 at 7:03 AM
Teena said...: love it. We will plant on good Friday IF we plant. Last couple of years we have not had a good harvest so may not this year. There is a wonderful fruit/veggie stand/patch that we go pick... so we may just do that. Although seeing yours makes me want to!

Hugs; January 19, 2013 at 7:27 PM
Vanderpolclan said...: I am just a little jealous at the early planting!! Up here we don't start planting until May long weekend!!

Cindy; January 22, 2013 at 11:21 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.