The Big "One"

In a week full of beautiful events: visits from friends i haven't seen in years, a men's hunting trip for Elk before the school year starts, a last minute road trip to Grand Prairie to see my 7 nieces and nephews all be baptized at once... landed this precious little milestone... Eva's first birthday. :) These traditional extended family birthday meals have become so familiar, comfortable and anticipated events. This first birthday passed as sweetly as all the other first birthday's before it. Eva sat on Robin's lap to open presents. When she opened a little pack of rubber bath toys Wes declared "That one's for ME!!" :) She ate more ice cream cake than ham and scalloped potatoes, she fell asleep before the first guests left and she spilled a full, icy cup of pop down into grandmas lap. Eva, what a precious gift of life you bring to this home and family. May God be the center of your heart...because out of your heart flows every other issue of life. I love you.

Sadie update: I called regarding Sadie's hormone stimulation test results and got this disappointing response: It was a two part test and one test confirms the other test. Both have to say she is low in order to confirm that her growth hormone has in fact been affected by the lesion on her pituitary. The first test came back at 3. She should have hit at least 8. (an obviously low reading) A few days later the second test came in and the lab had neglected to even check growth hormone! SO... we have to go back in to do the second half of the test again. Our road trip and visit to Grand Prairie will be shortened to one day so that Sadie can go back in to the hospital Monday morning. My good friend Crystal arrived on the day we got this news and the day she left, we got talking about the saying "it is what it is" and how much i have come to love that saying....With a heart that so anxiously wants to worry no matter if i can do anything or not, those words have a calming affect on me. Crystal has a Japanese heritage and she told me, "The Japanese have a saying which means the same, "Shikata ga nai." which translates "It can't be helped." Trying to let my shoulders hang looser as i let those foreign words roll off my tongue today.