A Brave New Year

    As I write this the sound of boys and Hannah, playing soccer fills my backyard. It's a great sound considering it took pain meds to get a certain 12 year old out of bed this morning. He actually came out took pain meds and crawled back in bed and fell back to sleep. This group of boys is a special bunch! Two, like Lucas & Hannah have a form of arthritis and one has Chrohns. So it warms my heart to see them being boys (and a girl :) ) out in the yard.

    This week we start back to school after a two week break. We start on a Tuesday.... affectionately called around here a "fake" Monday. "Fake"

Mondays tend to be worse than a regular Monday and after a two week break?...well it should be an adventure.

    Here at home we are halfway through the school year. Yikes! Halfway

through 7th and & 9th grades. When we started this 'school at home'

journey Luke wasn't even born yet. So it boggles my mind that he will be

in high school in a year and a half.

    Lucas's anxiety has been better but the new vitamins are not helping as
much as we had hoped. He has his 2nd of 3 loading dose infusion on 
Thursday. It remains to be seen how well this medicine will work. Hannah 
is doing well ,but like Cody in past, she gets to 3 weeks and starts to
have more issues.

    This week we try and get to the root of the kidney issues Cody seems 
to be experiencing. Prayer would be greatly appreciated. It is hard to send
him back to school with no answers or plan of action. He is a fighter
though and he amazes me with his ability to press on and live life to its fullest.

     Looking to my children as examples. Living life to its fullest is what I  seek to undertake this brave new year.