Please add another friend to your prayer list

I'm getting to be a downer here, but I just have to request prayers for another friend. Claudia had emergency surgery during the night last night. I am not going to post everything here because Kari has already done it. Everything I know is from Kari so I'll put you through to the source. This is the first posting, and she updated here.

If you are a person who prays please include 12 yr old Luke and Claudia. I don't think she'd appreciate me writing her age.

Prayers needed for 12 yr old friend

I know how prayers work wonders. Please pray for our friends 12 yr old son, Luke. He was in excellent health until Friday when he suffered a seizure. The children's hospital sent him home but then he had a another seizure on Saturday. This one was bad. He is now in a coma with paralysis on one side of his body. A MRI is showing severe brain damage on one side of his brain.

Luke needs our prayers. His family need to feel the prayers too. I know I have lots of good bloggy friends out there who can help in this way. Even those who don't comment, please pray.

Just wondering...

When did Pete Townsend and Roger Daltry get so old?! Not bad for old dudes, huh?



So do you think that was his real hair for the half-time show?

Got some love in the mail

I am a blubbering fool right now. My heart is all happy for Bug.

This afternoon in the mail I received a card written for Bug from her birthmom. Her birthmom hasn't contacted Bug or us since she last saw her at 6 mos old. Bug is 10 1/2 yrs old now. I remember what she said on that last visit. She held Bug and said this wasn't her baby. That she doesn't know this baby. I was sad for her and for Bug.

Today I read the most beautiful message from her to Bug. I am going to write part of it here-

....Please feel free to write any time and ask me any questions you may have for me.

....I love you very much and I thank God every day for people like your parents for loving you as much as I do.

I can't wait to show her this. I wonder what emotions she will go through after reading it.

*************

Then I think about DQ. When she hears about this she is going to go through her "it's not fair..." rant. Not good timing for her. But this is life and it has to be worked out. DQ has a deep, deep sense of loss with her adoption. It's in her core and needs to still work on it in future therapy. Maybe we'll have some good conversations from this. Who knows.

Then there's Andrew. He'll ask why he didn't get one from his birthmom. I'll try to explain it in terms he can understand. But he won't have any of it. He won't understand. He will argue that I'm wrong and keep asking why he didn't get one.

I'm not going to give the card to Bug today. She is soooooo cranky. I've never heard such a crabby old lady in a 10 yr. old body. She slept over at a friends house last night. I don't think the girls actually slept. Maybe I'll get to go to bed early tonight! Saturday night and that's what I look forward to.

Seriously, I'm looking forward to it!

Taking Bets

Who wants to bet with me on whether or not Kari's kids get a snow day on Monday?
(tee hee)

MN is in a winter storm watch until Tuesday morning. It doesn't matter where in MN it is issued because they always get the snow. They've had more than their share. If our district had as many as theirs, they would make the kids stay in school an extra 3 weeks! Because our school district is like that.

This one is for you Kari!