The picture on the blog tonight is Raynie about a month ago. She has the look of, “Is this Daddy’s notebook I’m not supposed to touch?” She’s such a sweetie. This year of her life has really flown; she is one today.
Today has been a fun day. Daniel’s girlfriend, Ziana, met us at VBS today! She’ll spend the night and will be with us for the finale at VBS. We’re so pleased she could see Daniel working so well with the kids.
Dorothy called and wanted us to go eat with them and the Meiers, so we did that. (The Mexican Restaurant, of course.) After that we played cards! That’s the first time Dorothy has played cards for months, so it was a real break through. We are all so grateful for her recovery. She still takes a pillow to sit with and she can’t sit for too long, but she’s doing so well! We played 2 games and the guys won both of them, but we gave them a good fight and we all enjoyed every moment.
Raynie has her surgery to correct her cleft palatte on the 23rd of this month. We’ll be there to support them in every way that we can. The hardest part is that they have to restrain her arms for a couple of weeks to be sure she doesn’t undo her surgery. She’s a really sweet baby, so we think she’ll handle it very well with the help of all her siblings and all of us who love her. They tell us her hands can be free if someone is holding her, so that gives us hope of lots of bright times. We all love to hold her. Of course, she walks, so she’ll want down. When she gets down she’ll have to have her arms restrained. That’ll be tricky. She’ll be fine, though. God will help us. We thank Him for all her family to help and love her. We thank Him for the joy she has been to us in a really tough year. She was born right after all our flooding and after a night of rain and storms, so they named her Summer Rain, but she has been a year of sunshine just like all our other grandchildren!
Today has been a fun day. Daniel’s girlfriend, Ziana, met us at VBS today! She’ll spend the night and will be with us for the finale at VBS. We’re so pleased she could see Daniel working so well with the kids.
Dorothy called and wanted us to go eat with them and the Meiers, so we did that. (The Mexican Restaurant, of course.) After that we played cards! That’s the first time Dorothy has played cards for months, so it was a real break through. We are all so grateful for her recovery. She still takes a pillow to sit with and she can’t sit for too long, but she’s doing so well! We played 2 games and the guys won both of them, but we gave them a good fight and we all enjoyed every moment.
Raynie has her surgery to correct her cleft palatte on the 23rd of this month. We’ll be there to support them in every way that we can. The hardest part is that they have to restrain her arms for a couple of weeks to be sure she doesn’t undo her surgery. She’s a really sweet baby, so we think she’ll handle it very well with the help of all her siblings and all of us who love her. They tell us her hands can be free if someone is holding her, so that gives us hope of lots of bright times. We all love to hold her. Of course, she walks, so she’ll want down. When she gets down she’ll have to have her arms restrained. That’ll be tricky. She’ll be fine, though. God will help us. We thank Him for all her family to help and love her. We thank Him for the joy she has been to us in a really tough year. She was born right after all our flooding and after a night of rain and storms, so they named her Summer Rain, but she has been a year of sunshine just like all our other grandchildren!
Mary Jo,
ReplyDeleteRayne is a beautiful child. Talking about storms we were not as lucky today as the hit us extremely hard. My house continued to smell like an ozone chamber for hours. We did lose the cordless phones, the kitchen air conditioner but most importantly, our new flat screen satellite TV is out. They advertise quick service but the closest they could fit us in was July 27, 2008. There goes their claim of quick service. We are thankful the house did not catch fire but a few tense moments in deed!!!
We seriously hope Rayne’s surgery goes as planned we will put her on our prayer list. I had taken all my meds earlier, they have the side affect of making me feel doby, and drowsy at the same time so taking them late at night is the best. But I am back up at 2:32 AM and cannot sleep - snaking of all things with a coke in hand.
Mary Jo, thanks for giving me space to vent and for that I will always remain in your debt,
A very special love to a very special woman,
Gene…
Gene, thank you for appreciating Raynie as we do! I'm so glad your storm didn't do even more damage; it sounds like it was scary close to doing lots more than it did. Do you have a cellar? I sure appreciate our basement when it's stormy around here!
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting Raynie on your prayer list; please keep all her family on there, too! Chances are all this will be harder on all of us than it is on her. SHE'll forget her agony, but the rest of us are all old enough to recall it. We fully expect that she will do well with the surgery and believe she will only have to have one surgery; that's a blessing!
You feel free to vent here whenever you feel like it! I love your 'visits' and you bless me with compliments. You make me feel like we're still kids at Itazuke even if we're old fogies! It's great fun, so keep it up!
Love you,
Mary Jo