At His feet, hold me

Some pictures from the pumpkin patch.


Another end to a busy week.... seems like our lives our so full right now. What a blessing it is to have so much to do. I often take it for granted but it really is a blessing to be so busy with my beautiful children. Sophia is doing great! I am so happy. She is happy, healthy, and doing great off of the medication. We are so hopeful that she will be able to stay off seizure medications. She has been seizure free as far as we can tell. We got home from the hospital Wednesday last week and Thursday Troy started vomiting. I thought he had a stomach bug... the vomiting continued and I took him to the doctor Monday. No fever, no diarrhea, in fact he was constipated. I thought maybe it was something he ate. The doctor said he was having reflux and a valve in his tummy wasn't working properly. They put him on Reglan, 30 minutes before every meal and before bedtime. It didn't help- he was still vomiting and now with white stools (TMI-I know but it was weird!). Called the doctor Tuesday night, the poor baby was vomiting and crying... they upped the dosage of the medicine and said to bring him in on Thursday. Wednesday he did better, no vomiting so the higher dosage of the medicine seemed to be working. Thursday we went to the doctor but he seemed fine, still with white poop though! If the white poop happens again we are going to have it tested. The Reglan is working and we are hoping that the valve just got irritated and it will correct itself. He is on the Reglan for two weeks and then if he is still having problems they will send him to a specialist, we are hoping that is just got irritated from a virus or something. It is very rare that a child will develop reflux at 12 months old so hopefully it's not a big deal. He kept us busy though! All that cleaning! I am glad the medicine is working. He also never got dehydrated so that was good- it could have been much worse. He is such a happy boy! I'm glad he's feeling better. He had us busy though.

Isn't it amazing how life changes in an instant. I was talking to my friend Kati about that this week. We go from so many unknowns to stability in an instant only to find something else is changing and another reason to adapt. In our personal lives, our families, our relationships, our finances, our government, our world... it is true the world doesn't stop spinning for anyone. Even when we need it to. Thank God for prayer... I don't think I could have made it the past few weeks without praying. Talking to the one constant in my life, God, the one thing that I know will never change, my God, His love.
Whenever prayer falls from my highest priority it always finds its way back to the top of my list. Not that I forget to pray, I am actually praying constantly throughout the day. I talk to God like he is in the room with me (in my mind of course, I wouldn't want people thinking I was a nut) but I think sometimes that takes the reverence of prayer (which is important). I am joining Bring the Rain in their seven prayers a day, if you don't know you should look- it's awesome! Also, I am making reverent prayer a part of my daily routine. I pray at night while I rock Troy and I love that time. I sing praises to God while I rock Sophia, and we both love that. But alone time in reverent prayer I am lacking.. and I love that too. So- think about prayer this week, it's importance, and it's place in your life.
Prayer is the closest we can be with our Holy Father. Like His child bent down at his feet.

It makes me think of Troy. Sick, tummy hurting, and standing at my feet with his arms reaching up to me. Wanting me to hold him, to take the pain from him, to make him feel better. He didn't have the words but I knew, as his mommy what he needed. And when I hold him, if just for a moment while he rests his head on me, he feels better. He can rest. I feel that when I pray. Like a little child reaching for my Father. For him to pick me up and let me rest on his chest, if just for an instant. He is never to busy for us. What a gracious, kind, Father we have to love us, unconditionally.... we really can learn by His loving example.
Thank you Father for being there to hold me, always. Like your little child you hold me.

Some Halloween Pictures for you...