The Long Week Begins With Gods Strength

The God who spoke still speaks..The God who came still comes. He comes into your world. He comes to do what you can't. When I read this today I thought, hmmm that is so true and God is here with us and will help us get through this and help us heal Simon and give him this immune system he needs to be a normal healthy boy. God is with us, I feel his presence and I feel the love that surrounds us. Thanks to those who have touched us and reached out especially in these last couple of days. It has meant so much to feel your presence there with us. So Thank you from our hearts.

Tomorrow starts a couple of tough days with Marriana having her long days of harvesting and Simon gets his last does of chemo. Hes done okay with things, vomitting a bit, tired but otherwise, trying to be a 15 month old boy of craziness and smiles. Dave and I will be at the hospital round the clock and do our best to be at two bedsides at once. Isabel gets to go out to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa and Marr and I have a large selection of books picked out for the evening rest period and we might even indulge in a movie. If I didn't know better I would feel like we were getting a girls pajama party night. So with all of this going on this week we ask that you find your God within your heart and life and ask him to come to our aid and help us to be strong, help us to prevail and make the right decisions and do all that can be done to get us 100% donor cells with as few complications as possible. All we ask is to be home again, with a healthy family, doing the daily grind that wears us down at times but now seems so appealing. Please pray and help us to get back to that. I watch families all around us now, friends, neighbors, strangers and think how much I envy them. Envy their time together without worry of illness and I long for that more than anything to be a part of our lives once more. Three weeks is our goal to be home. Lets pray we make it with unbelievable news of 100% working donor cells in Simon that have the stamina to outlast any energizer you could find. We fill our hearts with hope, we fill our life with love for there is no love like that of child. Marriana is giving from her heart even though her fear is greater than her knowledge of what is really happening. The girls love simmy. He lights up when they come to visit and it will be hard for them not to see each other but with the outcome ahead to be positive and strong we will wait out those weeks. Think of us in prayer and enjoy your week. We'll check in in a few days when things will hopefully just be waiting for cell counts to come back and nothing more exciting. God Bless. Love Tracy and David