Visitors

This weekend my best friend from Asheville came down for a visit with her two little girls. It wasn't a glamorous visit (when you have kids things change) but we enjoyed just hanging out together while we watched (and refereed) the girls playing. I thought it would be sunny and warm and that we'd get lots of time in the sun, but the weather turned nasty and rainy one day and windy and cold the next. Oh well. We made the most of it!

Bath partay! 

 Playing chase with the kids at 29 weeks preggo :) Yeah, I got crampy after that! 

Ahhh - strangle hug! 

Jessica's actually quite skinny... just trying to make me feel better! 

Claire and Petra - toddler race! 

 Poor baby having to endure the wind and cold!

Fun weekend! The end. 

I miss this little boy very much

I've had a hard couple of days, just missing my little man. I haven't posted much recently because right now there's nothing else I want to say. I just want to hold this little boy again and my heart aches that I can't. 

But yet, somehow, I am thankful that God was merciful and chose to take him home. As much as I selfishly want him with me, I also wouldn't have been able to stand watching him live in pain. 

Oh how this sweet little face gets to me! 

Sharing each other's sorrows

I came across the blog of Courtney Roth today. She is a mom who had a little boy with a rare genetic skin disorder. He passed away last month and as I read her last few entries about mourning his loss, it was like I was reading from my own story. I felt every bit of pain, hurt, and emptiness that she was expressing. It was very weird. I've spent the last half hour crying my eyes out, both for her loss and for my own. Thankfully, she is also a believer and has the assurance that her little guy is now in heaven. But as I know too well, that doesn't minimize the agony of missing your child.

I just wanted to pass her story along, in case you'd like to pray for her. Here's her blog: "EB"ing a Mommy.