Summer is flying by...

Summer seems to be just flying by us way too fast.  Only five weeks left 

till school starts.

This has been a summer of growing for me. Cody left last Monday with his high school youth group to minister in the Dominican Republic.  It was a

big leap of faith to send our chronically ill child on a trip of this magnitude.

I'm not going to lie the lack of communication has been brutal for this

Mama. {honestly I don't think I've ever gone 5 days without talking to Cody~ even with camp I had to come give him his shot by midweek} God

has shown his hand and provision in this trip since day one so I

will continue to trust and can't wait to hear all of the stories Cody will come home with.

The reality is though that everything my son will attempt in life will carry

risk. He has had up close and personal experience from an early age that life is not fair. It is truly a blessing that he was able to go on this trip. And 

he is learning to navigate this life of chronic pain and autoinflammatory disease with a strength and grace I find amazing. In five weeks he starts a new chapter of this by heading off to college.

Flip (our Seeing Eye pup who didn't make the cut), Cody's constant companion for the past 3 years has not quite know what do with himself 

this week. So he has been hanging out with me and Rachel a lot this 

since Monday. He and I are practicing for the fall.

You would think this is old hat for me. Rachel is entering her junior year...

but, I am finding it just doesn't any easier. It's not that it's a bad thing

to watch them grow up... it's actually wonderful to see them grow and blossom into adults and head off into the world... it's just change and

it takes some getting used to.