Today was the first day to go to Ark Children's hospital. My head is spinning with thoughts and emotions of the day. When I worked in the nursing home, I dealt with sickness and death a lot, and I knew today would be hard, but having 3 healthy children of my own, it hit harder than I expected. I am so glad I did, and look forward to going again next week, but at the same time I am overwhelmed with the feelings I have. It opened my eyes to a whole new, and scary world for many parents.
I couldn't wait to get home and see my kids today....and I gave each of them the longest hug. And then, when I was tucking Noah in bed tonight, he said, momma, let's say a prayer. And I am so proud of him for reminding me of this. Although I pray several times throughout the day, I have not been good about doing that regularly with the kids. And my little angel tonight overwhelmed me all over again. I told him he could pray, and then I would join in at the end. He prayed for our family, thanked God for all our blessings, prayed for the children that didn't have any parents, the people that don't have anything, and the children at the hospital. When he was finished, I told him that was a perfect prayer, he had prayed for everything that was on my mind.
I will try to post a couple of my favorite pictures later. Thank you to all of my great friends that were thinking about me today and asked how my day went. Today was not about me, that is not at all why I was doing it, but your care and concern means so much to me.
I am so proud of you!! I would love to get into this. Me and Shelley need to start comming up there. I can only imagine, but she knows first hand. I had a friend up there who passed away while there I wish I would have gone up and done this for her. I have another friend too (besides Shelley) that have had two preemies and for a long time that is all you have is photographs until hopefully they get to come home. Good luck to all and my prayers are with them.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine how difficult that is.....I think about it almost too much,because with Kendall,I just never know...
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about you and this endeavor,although I have not voiced it on here.What wonderful work to do,hard but wonderful simultaneously....