Happy Birthday my Sweet Eden!

Tomorrow is Eden's 4th Birthday and her second time spending it without Daddy. The first time he missed Eden's birthday was when Eden turned 1, and Kevin was in the hospital for a week with Renal Failure from Rabdomiolisis, caused by taking too much of the wrong medication. My friends Michele and Karen had watched the girls the night before so I could visit Kevin and when I got home at 9:00pm there was a beautiful home made cake, flowers and presents set out on the table for Eden and Lily ready for the next day. I was so blown Away. God is so good to surround me with such amazing friends.
Thankfully when we went home to Maine for a visit about a week or so ago, we celebrated all the girls birthdays one day with Mommy Daddy Gamma, Pappa and Auntie Karrie. And she is still young and doesn't care too much about birthdays, besides the cake, but I am reminded of how as the girls get older, there may be many more things that Daddy will miss and has missed for the girls and for me, like anniversaries and holiday spent in the hospital etc and it makes me sad.  But I have to be thankful for the good days we have together and that's what helps me get through, That, and knowing that God has a Plan and a Purpose for everyone.

Isn't it Ironic

Feeling a bit like Alanis Morrissette! Just after I finally posted that Kevin was feeling better and life was beginning to return to normal.

Who would've thought... it figures

Kevin spent all of friday evening and all day saturday in bed with abdominal pain. Only to finally go in to the ER at around 10pm and then they ran some blood work and gave him some Barium to drink for a CT Scan at 2:30 am. He told the tech about his Renal failure and The docs decided to do the CT scan without the contrast injection. It was much too uncomfortable for him to have me sit on the bed with him, but after they gave him some dilaudid for the pain, he asked me to come up on the hospital bed to snuggle. We joked with the tech, that it was "Date Night" since we rarely get out without the girls. When they got the results from th ct scan, they decided to admit him at 5:00 am, I finally left the hospital to go home and take care of the girls. We had left them at our house in the care of my friend Michele and her mom Eileen, who have been my adoptive family out here in NY and have helped tremendously throughout Kevin's illness. When I got home the girls were still asleep with their friend Livy in the middle, my house was absolutely spotless and there were donut holes on my table. They are so good to us. They told me to go and rest and I was so exausted that I took them up on it. Then I woke up about an hour later and Grampa Gary, who comes over every sunday for church, was here, talking with Eileen and Michele. After he left they called my amazing neighbor and friend Karen over to help out. She shaved the dog for me on the back porch in this terrible heat and watched the girls so I could take a quick shower. There are definitely days I wish we lived closer to my family in Maine, but I am so incredbly blessed and thankful to have friends that treat us like family out here in NY. I would be lost with out them.

Thanks so much to all who have been praying also. We are so grateful and we know that God is listening.