LucyKate! How is she already a two-year-old?!
Here are a few of her favorite things and a few stats so we never forget...
Oh, how she loves her 'tutu'!!! She found a precious off-white, lace dress hanging in her closet sometime after Halloween and hasn't taken it off for three months. It was the cute dress Reese wore as the flower girl in Joel & Julia's wedding. She calls it her Tutu and literally puts it on the second she wakes up -over her jammies. Then when she puts her clothes on for the day, the tutu goes over the clothes. Then when she puts her jammies back on for bedtime, the tutu goes over the jammies again. She knows she has to take it off to eat meals and she'll patiently stand by her chair waiting for me to take it off before she sits down. so cute. then as soon as the meal is over.... tutu goes right back on. She also (usually) has to take it off before we get in the car. Generally, there are a few tears involved with this, but she knows she'll get it back as soon as we're home again. It's like she is just wearing her blankie, or her lovie. It's her comfort. She just loves it so much. She puts it on and her eyes light up and she dances around and holds it out like a princess. I don't know what it is about the dress that she loves so much. She has so many actual dress-up princess dresses, but she won't wear them because she just wants her tutu. I have to wait until she's asleep to wash it on ultra-delicate cycle and then hang dry it through the night so it will be dry in the morning. Oh the things we do for our sweet kiddos.
She loves "bia da dirst" aka Sofia the First on Disney Jr. She has just started to pretend and act out different scenes from the movie and its just so adorable.
Sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas (right before she turned two) she decided she could talk and all of a sudden just started saying tons of things. Before that she barely said a word. Her big sister says and does most things for her so Lu figure out pretty quick that she didn't need to talk :) She has the cutest voice. Kind of raspy and so dramatic.
She is so sweet to her baby dolls and loves to take care of them. and her little people princesses too.
Oh this is so cute... when we ask her a question (and reese isn't around to answer for her ;) before lucy answers shell say, 'um um... um um' really quickly and then say the answer. precious little voice.
She is still such an active little thing. Climbs on every.thing. jumps off everything. hangs on everything. jumps at all times. runs everywhere. in the store. in the hallways. at school. if any child ever needed a leash... it's this silly one.
She's still pretty tall for her age!! At her two year check up she was 34in tall (70th%) and 26lbs (50th%). Blue eyes. Blondish hair (well not much of it though haha) and we still can't really tell, but I don't think it's curly like her sisters'.
She'll finally sit and read books with me, which I love!!! She's not as much of a cuddler as Reese was so I love it when shell sit in my lap long enough to read a book!!
She still sleeps in her crib and its just working great and easy and I have no desire to rock the boat on this one. I think she'll be in her crib until we just absolutely need to move her.
Her best friend here (besides "beese") is our buddy Charlie Morris. He's also two and in our small group. He taught her "jump jump shake your booty" and she is pretty much constantly singing this now haha she says"jump jump booty booty" its hilarious.
she loves Frozen (what little girl doesn't) and she loves to pretend to be Elsa by wrapping a blanket around her and letting it drape in the back and singing let it go or '"noman....go!' aka do you want to build a snow man. and this is just so cute.... when she gets out of the bathroom and has to walk from the bathroom to her room wrapped in her towel that makes it look like she has a crown on her head she started saying 'coldcoldcoldcold' and it was super cute and i just thought she was being silly bc she is always making us laugh (or just making herself laugh haha) but the other day reese realized she was pretending to be anna from Frozen when she falls in the water and her dress is frozen and she can barely walk and says that. so so funny!
She still is an awesome eater!!! Loves loves loves all fruit, especially blueberries and pears.
She seems to be pretty independent! She's always saying "dooot" aka 'do it' and wants to do everything by herself. put on her clothes. take off her clothes. go up and down the stairs. feed herself. get her own snack. "nack peeese!" pick out her coat. walk by herself instead of me carrying her.
I'm sure there are a million more things... but this is all i can think of off the top of my head :)
We sure love watching you grow up Lucy girl!!!!! You are so precious and fun! Smart and hilarious. energetic. caring. full of personality.
oh my favorite thing.... we still always rock a little in your chair before bed, say our prayers and I pray luke 2:52 over you every night. "grow in wisdom, stature and favor with God and favor with man" and then we sing Jesus loves me. I don't know when this started but now you sing it with me and its the sweetest sound I've ever heard. "es, deesus yuvs me. ess, deesus yuvs me. da bidle dells me do"
1.20.2015
1.03.2015
Reese World as a 4.5 year old
hello blog world. {I wrote this four month ago (in September) and just discovered that i never posted it} just a quick update of Reese at this phase of life bc I just wish i could freeze time.....
reeser just started four year old preschool. she goes m-th in the afternoon and just loooooves it. i mean there is no hesitation or worry on her part (except when it comes to maybe going through the drop off for her to walk down three stairs with the parent helper into her classroom. then mommy and lucy don't even have to get out of the car! but that would be way to easy and is obviously super scary ;) i love that girl.) so she just runs into the classroom and has the best time, i think? its hard to get anything out of her except for 'we dont learn anything mommy, we just play and eat a snack' so glad we're paying for this. jk i know its awesome.
she loves her sister,
loves strawberry shortcake (but not as much as she loves her sister),
plays make believe with her animals and still loves to play doc mcstuffins. yes we still have the doc mobile made out of a diaper box that she pulls around. dear disney, please make a somewhat life-size doc mobile so we don't have to have this falling apart diaper box in our living room. thank you.
this summer reese tried soccer and ballet. both were little four lesson "camps" to see if she liked it. in her words "soccer is just so super hard. and the shinguards hurt my knees" yes people, her shinguards went up past her knees. she's still a sweet little peanut. (and also still allergic to peanuts for the record). so we told her it was ok if she wasn't a soccer star and we were still proud of her and couldn't wait to see what else she would like. ballet sure seems like a perfect fit to me. but even though she really loved it (and wears the whole ballet get up all the time - even to the grocery store or maybe the park) she said "i want to do a 'paetren' (pattern. one word i just can't correct. its so cute. and she also still says 'stegot' for forgot. we are working hard on teettttthhhhh instead of teet.) anyway, she wants to do a pattern of ballet for a little bit and gymnastics for a little bit.
so today, ladies and gentlemen, reese e. mason has come out of retirement and started gymnastics again. it was darling. she was so excited about it and was so brave and awesome compared to the precious little three year old reese at the gym last fall. who knows how long she'll love it but I'm always proud of her, especially today when she jumped off the vault for the first time and then turned up to me with the biggest smile and waved!!
she is still somewhat of a picky eater. well not so much picky more just like she'd rather not eat. haha however, her fav foods are hummus with pretzels, all fruit, couscous, hotdogs if they're cut in skinny long strips and wheat thins. who is this child? oh and apple juice. we've had some pretty good fits bc i make her drink water sometimes. i know, i'm a terrible mom.
speaking of fits, not much has changed, but she still DOES NOT like for me to pick out her clothes. we've been trying to balance this for pre school. but lets just say getting her dressed is not the best part of the day. today i let her pick out her clothes and she came down in polka dots. head to toe. she said it matched bc it was all polka dots. pink dot shirt. purple and green dot running shorts. black and rainbow dot toms. oh girl. "mommy I'm so good at picking out my clothes aren't I?"
oh and this was hilarious the other day- we went on a run with the monster double bob to the library a little over a mile away. we got almost to the parking lot and i realized it was closed that day.
me: shoot the library is closed, girls!
reese: awww why?
me: its thursday. and I forgot the library is always closed on thursdays.
reese: its ok mommy. but you should have just told me and i would have remembered it for you.
yep. that sounds right. this girl still surprises me all the time with her memory. its nuts. she's a smart one i tell you. she has her daddys brain. which is so cute bc there are so many times they just "get" each other in different situations. i love it. i pray they always "get" each other. especially when she's 13 and doesn't want me to make her have a dance party to t.swift (maybe thats why God gave me lucy. she's always dancing!)
reesieboo still LOOOOOOVES all things art, crafts, painting, creating, writing, drawing. and gosh is she good at it. i mean i'm no expert at what four year old art should look like but her paintings are frame worthy in our house!! ;) she will sit and paint and color and glue and cut really focused for so long! its awesome.
she is so energetic and passionate about everything she does. happy or sad its pretty easy to tell her emotion :) love her to pieces! i feel like i say this every day- but i just LOVE four year olds :)
reeser just started four year old preschool. she goes m-th in the afternoon and just loooooves it. i mean there is no hesitation or worry on her part (except when it comes to maybe going through the drop off for her to walk down three stairs with the parent helper into her classroom. then mommy and lucy don't even have to get out of the car! but that would be way to easy and is obviously super scary ;) i love that girl.) so she just runs into the classroom and has the best time, i think? its hard to get anything out of her except for 'we dont learn anything mommy, we just play and eat a snack' so glad we're paying for this. jk i know its awesome.
she loves her sister,
loves strawberry shortcake (but not as much as she loves her sister),
plays make believe with her animals and still loves to play doc mcstuffins. yes we still have the doc mobile made out of a diaper box that she pulls around. dear disney, please make a somewhat life-size doc mobile so we don't have to have this falling apart diaper box in our living room. thank you.
this summer reese tried soccer and ballet. both were little four lesson "camps" to see if she liked it. in her words "soccer is just so super hard. and the shinguards hurt my knees" yes people, her shinguards went up past her knees. she's still a sweet little peanut. (and also still allergic to peanuts for the record). so we told her it was ok if she wasn't a soccer star and we were still proud of her and couldn't wait to see what else she would like. ballet sure seems like a perfect fit to me. but even though she really loved it (and wears the whole ballet get up all the time - even to the grocery store or maybe the park) she said "i want to do a 'paetren' (pattern. one word i just can't correct. its so cute. and she also still says 'stegot' for forgot. we are working hard on teettttthhhhh instead of teet.) anyway, she wants to do a pattern of ballet for a little bit and gymnastics for a little bit.
so today, ladies and gentlemen, reese e. mason has come out of retirement and started gymnastics again. it was darling. she was so excited about it and was so brave and awesome compared to the precious little three year old reese at the gym last fall. who knows how long she'll love it but I'm always proud of her, especially today when she jumped off the vault for the first time and then turned up to me with the biggest smile and waved!!
she is still somewhat of a picky eater. well not so much picky more just like she'd rather not eat. haha however, her fav foods are hummus with pretzels, all fruit, couscous, hotdogs if they're cut in skinny long strips and wheat thins. who is this child? oh and apple juice. we've had some pretty good fits bc i make her drink water sometimes. i know, i'm a terrible mom.
speaking of fits, not much has changed, but she still DOES NOT like for me to pick out her clothes. we've been trying to balance this for pre school. but lets just say getting her dressed is not the best part of the day. today i let her pick out her clothes and she came down in polka dots. head to toe. she said it matched bc it was all polka dots. pink dot shirt. purple and green dot running shorts. black and rainbow dot toms. oh girl. "mommy I'm so good at picking out my clothes aren't I?"
oh and this was hilarious the other day- we went on a run with the monster double bob to the library a little over a mile away. we got almost to the parking lot and i realized it was closed that day.
me: shoot the library is closed, girls!
reese: awww why?
me: its thursday. and I forgot the library is always closed on thursdays.
reese: its ok mommy. but you should have just told me and i would have remembered it for you.
yep. that sounds right. this girl still surprises me all the time with her memory. its nuts. she's a smart one i tell you. she has her daddys brain. which is so cute bc there are so many times they just "get" each other in different situations. i love it. i pray they always "get" each other. especially when she's 13 and doesn't want me to make her have a dance party to t.swift (maybe thats why God gave me lucy. she's always dancing!)
reesieboo still LOOOOOOVES all things art, crafts, painting, creating, writing, drawing. and gosh is she good at it. i mean i'm no expert at what four year old art should look like but her paintings are frame worthy in our house!! ;) she will sit and paint and color and glue and cut really focused for so long! its awesome.
she is so energetic and passionate about everything she does. happy or sad its pretty easy to tell her emotion :) love her to pieces! i feel like i say this every day- but i just LOVE four year olds :)
3.03.2014
Lucy Kate - 14 mo
Lucylula. you are a joy. you are an adventurer. you are an explorer. you are curious. you are a sweetheart if i ever knew one but in the same breath you are as stubborn as they come. i cannot imagine our lives without you. thank you Jesus for letting this sweet girl be a part of our family! Here's what lulu is up to at 14 months.
WALKING!! She took her first steps right after she turned 13 months (during small group at our friends house). Once she figured out how to stand up on her own a few weeks after that she has been walking everywhere. It's just so cute how she walks with her arms up in the air and taking those tiny little steps. i love it!
TALKING: She says 'Dada' but not mama unless she's really crying
'uh uh' for uh oh.
'ba da. ba da' - singing the bath time song
't…t…' means please
"eye" (hi) she says this alllllll the time :) to everyone!
other than that she pretty much just points at things and is happy to let her big sister talk for her :) and Reeser will probably be doing that for the rest of their lives :) ha. gosh i love these sisters.
She's always been a grunter - even at 2 weeks old in her tiny bassinet and kept me awake all night while she was sleeping peacefully. and now she continues to grunt and point and somehow we can usually figure out what she's "saying" :) I just want to hear her little voice though!
but she can't fool me into thinking just bc she doesn't talk much she doesn't understand whats going on. that girl totally gets it! She LOVES to brush her teeth and wash her hands and if we even ever say anything about water or the bathroom much less go in there she is there rubbing her hands together waiting for someone to help her :) and when she sees me getting my shoes on she knows we must be going somewhere so she brings her boots to me too. or tries to put them on herself which just results in lots of grunting and pointing.
She is so funny and goofy and just cracks herself up all the time. She's so much better at playing by herself than her sister was - sweet second child - and there are soooo many times when she'll be playing with her toys or reading a book and she'll just start cracking up. haha and do the same thing over and over and laugh and laugh. its adorable. she's quite the jokester, people.
anytime we say bye or talk about leaving she blows kisses. and she usually won't stop until she gets her hand to your face for you to kiss it.
She eats most everything. but has gotten a little more picky about meat. She LOVES fruit the most, especially grapes and blueberries. and she drinks whole milk like a champ. transitioning from breastfeeding to milk was pretty easy for her. She doesn't love to be fed off a spoon but if i help her eat things with her fork she'll sit in her high chair forever! oh she also loooooves yogurt bites and goldfish and finds them in the cupboard and pulls them out to help herself :)
She loves to dance and hum along to songs. one of my favorite things she does. oh and i've got to get this on video but in the last couple of days she started spinning around kind of and she'll take some steps then bend her arm at her elbow and use it like a rudder or something to help turn herself around. its precious. and hilarious.
She is in her big girl car seat but still facing backward.
She LOVES her sister. and it just melts my heart to hear them laughing and playing together! its so fun. she just chases R around all day. and Reese is just the best big sister. "oh sweet girl whats wrong?" "no no lulu" are some of reeses big sister phrases lately. :)
Lucy is also a major daddy's girl. She just lights up when he gets home every day and practically runs to him! She gives him huge hugs and cuddles and lays her head on his shoulder all the time. Its adorable. She points and says dada to his pictures around the house all day with a huge smile.
She is a climber and an adventurer for sure. into ev.er.y.thing. seriously. i can't turn around for a minute or she's climbing on the art table or into the toy box or eating paint or somehow found a way to get to a shelf with huge books on it. i love it but it just cracks me up bc reese was never like that. I love that she's curious and that she doesn't seem to be afraid of anything. She's super tough. falls down a billion times a day. has bruises everywhere and usually all over her face. but she just gets up with a huge smile and those beautiful blue eyes that just melt your heart.
you are so beautiful lucygirl!!! I love you more than words can express!
2.25.2014
open for business
Well I've joined the Etsy world and have opened a little shop to sell these cutie little baby hats I've learned how to crochet.
Who knows if I'll ever sell any but it's just a fun little hobby for me right now. I got one from my friend as a baby gift when Lucylu was born and I thought it was such a fun and precious gift! Maybe you want to pass one along to your friend too?? I mean is there anything cuter than a newborn in a pom pom hat?? or a one year old in it?? {truly someone comments on Lucy's hat everywhere we go} and Reese had been begging me to make her one too and she requested a rainbow hat so I did just that per her request and its become a favorite :) I know its beginning to warm up in other parts of the world but here in Iowa its definitely not. (the 10 day forecast doesn't show temps over 25) so we'll be wearing our warm hats for months up here I'm sure. Anyway... just praying God will bless my efforts in this silly little shop. That it would bless others and maybe somehow be another way for Him to provide for our family. He always does!! "Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies!" Psalm 36:5 Learning and experiencing this in a million ways in life right now!!
1.06.2014
Hello 2014
Hi. Well 2013 has passed and I was terrible at documenting it. That makes me very sad since so many firsts happened and so many fun memories in Lucy's first year of life! Can you believe she's ONE!! We have all those special memories and family times stored in our brains and in pictures to remember but I just love having some of it at least on this space so I can look back at it :) so, my goal for 2014 is to at least post a blog onces a month to recap and remember what all is going on in the mason household. So... Here we go! We had a wonderful christmas in Des Moines. {even though mark had to work and we barely saw him :( it was really sad and he was exhausted the entire time but it was great to have my parents and brother and sis-in-law here!}
Lucy turned one the day after christmas - which is kinda more of a challenge and more tiring that I thought it would be! But no matter what day it is I want her to always know how incredibly special she is and how much I view her life a precious miracle! We had fun celebrating with our family, opening more presents, eating pizza and watching her smash her cake in her face
She looooved it until she smeared it in her eyes :( happy birthday my precious Lucy girl!!!
Then dr mason finally got a few days off over New Year's Eve so we went to Branson for some r&r and it was awesome! We went to silver dollar city to see all the lights and drink hot cocoa and watch the Christmas parade.
And spent a lot of the time in our pjs by the fire!
One of the days it warmed up a little and we took a walk to kamp with the coopers/Coles! It was refreshing just to be outside and fun/sad/exciting to see what all is happening at k1.
And 2014, please warm up soon! The high in Des Moines is -1 today! Yikes.
10.18.2013
Day 100+ !!!! and shes coming to visit!
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works with in us to him be the glory..." Eph 3:20-21
God is so good. He has protected my mother-in-law. I'm sorry for not updating more but just wanted to share a little with you now that she has made it to the other side of the procedure and is healthy enough that she and my father-in-law are actually traveling all the way to Iowa TODAY to visit us :) We couldn't be more excited. We are so incredibly proud of our Honey and how tough she was to endure all that she has gone through the past six months!
Thank you thank you thank you for praying for her. I know you did. and she knows it too. She is still a little weak and it could take another year for her to gain all her strength back from the intense chemo. But she is doing well!!! We couldn't be more thankful!!!!!!
Here are some updates from her that she wrote on her caring bridge site:
In Ann Voskamp's blog this week, a quote struck me. "The way to stand with the falling is to give them the gift of the knees because this is how His Body catches and carries each other home." It is a gift to hold each other up and I have definitely experienced it this summer with all of you. I want to be faithful in doing that for others. It's humbling and amazing to see qualities of God through this, His faithfulness, His Sovereignty, His Omnipresence, His Love for each of us, and much more.
Written Sep 18, 2013 6:02pm
This is Day 100! Unbelievable, how God has brought me through to today, the first hurdle of surviving the transplant and going infection free these past 100 days. It really is a miracle and I see God's hand through it all. The 100 day window is an arbitrary number used in transplants. Before day 100 is considered the time of acute complications like infections, pneumonia from the transplant, after day 100 is considered post transplant. (I had it explained to me much more clearly than this!)
The second hurdle was evaluating the MS. I had MRI's yesterday and today of the brain and spine, and was to go to Dr. Lim (oncologist) next week to hear results and to Dr. Saulog (neurologist) in 3 weeks to go over results more in depth and talk about the MS. Dr. Saulog, (she) called me today at 2:45 and asked if I could come in at 3:00 for an appt. It scared me to death thinking she had gotten results and found lesions and was going to put me back on MS drugs as soon as possible. I've been off any MS drugs since April. Donny met me there and we waited in exam room for a while, she did various neurological tests on strength and reflexes, kept getting up to ask something of her staff and finally said we'd go over the results of MRI. I was as nervous as the first time I was diagnosed in 1996 praying and trying to prepare myself for what she was going to say. Finally, she said with no emotion that I had no new lesions!!!! I was so relieved and I think she really was very pleased. You'd have to know her! There was no improvement in the old lesions and atrophy in part of my spine which probably will not get any better (which I wasn't too surprised), BUT hopefully I will not get any worse!
She wants to start me on IV steroids next week to boost me up and then she will start the weaning off the steroids a lot slower than before.
Also she is setting up physical therapy for this fall which I think will be great for me. It's hard to push myself when mobility is so hard. I guess I need a coach. I will still do the IVIG in a couple of weeks and the breathing treatment at the hospital.
Anyway, I feel hope! I feel like a weight has been lifted and I can now look forward to trying to get stronger physically. I will say I have been fighting doubt and insecurity, I guess Satan knows where to attack when you're weak. The devotion book "Jesus Today" that I read today was on hope, just what I needed.
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction,faithful in prayer." Rom 12:12
"Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the LORD is the Rock eternal."
Is 26:4
"For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Rom 8: 24-25
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." Proverbs 13:12
"Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. James 1:6
And a powerful verse that Team Lisa (some friends and family) have been praying the last 2 days is:
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works with in us to him be the glory..." Eph 3:20-21
Please continue to pray for me that I will fight doubt and fear. I don't want to be like a wave tossed here and there, but firmly secured to the Rock. It will still be an uphill battle to build strength, stamina, balance and whatever else may be possible to gain. The studies have shown that improvement happens in the first 2 years after the transplant so I've got my work ahead but I'm so much more positive about the future now. Again I just can't thank enough the friends and family and some I don't even know who have been faithfully praying and hope I'm not selfish in asking for your continued prayers.
Praise the Lord for his goodness and mercy!
The second hurdle was evaluating the MS. I had MRI's yesterday and today of the brain and spine, and was to go to Dr. Lim (oncologist) next week to hear results and to Dr. Saulog (neurologist) in 3 weeks to go over results more in depth and talk about the MS. Dr. Saulog, (she) called me today at 2:45 and asked if I could come in at 3:00 for an appt. It scared me to death thinking she had gotten results and found lesions and was going to put me back on MS drugs as soon as possible. I've been off any MS drugs since April. Donny met me there and we waited in exam room for a while, she did various neurological tests on strength and reflexes, kept getting up to ask something of her staff and finally said we'd go over the results of MRI. I was as nervous as the first time I was diagnosed in 1996 praying and trying to prepare myself for what she was going to say. Finally, she said with no emotion that I had no new lesions!!!! I was so relieved and I think she really was very pleased. You'd have to know her! There was no improvement in the old lesions and atrophy in part of my spine which probably will not get any better (which I wasn't too surprised), BUT hopefully I will not get any worse!
She wants to start me on IV steroids next week to boost me up and then she will start the weaning off the steroids a lot slower than before.
Also she is setting up physical therapy for this fall which I think will be great for me. It's hard to push myself when mobility is so hard. I guess I need a coach. I will still do the IVIG in a couple of weeks and the breathing treatment at the hospital.
Anyway, I feel hope! I feel like a weight has been lifted and I can now look forward to trying to get stronger physically. I will say I have been fighting doubt and insecurity, I guess Satan knows where to attack when you're weak. The devotion book "Jesus Today" that I read today was on hope, just what I needed.
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction,faithful in prayer." Rom 12:12
"Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the LORD is the Rock eternal."
Is 26:4
"For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Rom 8: 24-25
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." Proverbs 13:12
"Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. James 1:6
And a powerful verse that Team Lisa (some friends and family) have been praying the last 2 days is:
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works with in us to him be the glory..." Eph 3:20-21
Please continue to pray for me that I will fight doubt and fear. I don't want to be like a wave tossed here and there, but firmly secured to the Rock. It will still be an uphill battle to build strength, stamina, balance and whatever else may be possible to gain. The studies have shown that improvement happens in the first 2 years after the transplant so I've got my work ahead but I'm so much more positive about the future now. Again I just can't thank enough the friends and family and some I don't even know who have been faithfully praying and hope I'm not selfish in asking for your continued prayers.
Praise the Lord for his goodness and mercy!
9.13.2013
Lisa update :)
Sorry for not updating anyone on my mother-in-laws progress this summer! I have been mia from my blog and so many of you have been so kind to ask how she's doing so I for sure need to "proclaim what the Lord has done!!"
Today is day 95. (remember day zero was the scary day back in June. I just can't believe its already almost day 100!) She had a rough summer- recuperating, gaining energy, resting in the quiet and isolation of her home. To the glory of God she NEVER got sick! This is unreal people. God is so good. He protected her even in ways we don't know. But somehow, besides nausea and normal weakness, tiredness and sickness, she never got a fever or had to go back into the hospital after the procedure!! She was smart and careful and she and Donny and Grace made sure to take such good care of her. Her doctors say she is a textbook case - her results are off the charts. All her blood counts and levels and everything are back to normal!! Now, they are trying to figure out the steroid dosages and other things, which she thinks is making her feel weak :( not fun when she had more energy earlier in the summer. When she feels like she has the energy, she is able to walk up and down her street with a walker!!!!! Her hair is growing back :) They got a new dog, Sadie. They won't test for the MS cells for a while longer but now that is the biggest prayer request ----> that all the MS cells are gone!!!! and that she will fully recuperate soon. and PLEASE PRAY for her soul. for her spirit to be joyful, even in the solitude and waiting and wondering. Pray that she won't be anxious or worried and that she would trust the Lord. He has been so faithful this summer - as he promised he would be - and we are just trusting him to let her MS be gone. He is the healer and He has created her in His image.
Thank you so much for your prayers and support!!! She feels them and covets them!!
here's a link to her caringbridge site that she updates: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lisamason
We love you Lisa!!! and couldn't be more proud of you. Can't wait to see you sometime soon! We miss you. xoxoxo
Today is day 95. (remember day zero was the scary day back in June. I just can't believe its already almost day 100!) She had a rough summer- recuperating, gaining energy, resting in the quiet and isolation of her home. To the glory of God she NEVER got sick! This is unreal people. God is so good. He protected her even in ways we don't know. But somehow, besides nausea and normal weakness, tiredness and sickness, she never got a fever or had to go back into the hospital after the procedure!! She was smart and careful and she and Donny and Grace made sure to take such good care of her. Her doctors say she is a textbook case - her results are off the charts. All her blood counts and levels and everything are back to normal!! Now, they are trying to figure out the steroid dosages and other things, which she thinks is making her feel weak :( not fun when she had more energy earlier in the summer. When she feels like she has the energy, she is able to walk up and down her street with a walker!!!!! Her hair is growing back :) They got a new dog, Sadie. They won't test for the MS cells for a while longer but now that is the biggest prayer request ----> that all the MS cells are gone!!!! and that she will fully recuperate soon. and PLEASE PRAY for her soul. for her spirit to be joyful, even in the solitude and waiting and wondering. Pray that she won't be anxious or worried and that she would trust the Lord. He has been so faithful this summer - as he promised he would be - and we are just trusting him to let her MS be gone. He is the healer and He has created her in His image.
Thank you so much for your prayers and support!!! She feels them and covets them!!
here's a link to her caringbridge site that she updates: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lisamason
We love you Lisa!!! and couldn't be more proud of you. Can't wait to see you sometime soon! We miss you. xoxoxo
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