It's nice to be home together as a family. Emenet and Nick were trying their hands at golf. Emenet loves to help us cook. Emenet and I made a dish from Nepal- Mo Mo's. They are dumplings, she loves to make them as much as eating them!!!!

We have been home from the hospital for over a week now. Christopher is slowly regaining his strength. He came home on IV antibiotics. We are still trusting that God will heal his facial nerve. I was so hoping Christopher would be well enough for us to go and visit our church family in Long Island, New York this weekend. Bill will be giving the sermon on Sunday and I miss seeing them. We tried to visit this spring but the weather had other ideas. I guess we will have to try again in the winter. Boy, I would just love to sit an fellowship with Pastor's David and Diane. Enough of the feeling sorry for myself! Missing this time will make our next visit even sweeter!!!

Emenet is doing great! We had our six month post placement visit while Christopher was in the hospital. It made it interesting. Our social worker is wonderful. Emenet has been doing good with talking to people she is meeting for the first time. She will actually carry on a conversation! She still is very guarded until we tell her it is okay. We had some endocrine/ growth issues with her. When we saw the endocrinologist she ordered a bone age x-ray. According to her bone age she is just turning 4. She acts more like a 4 than 5. But then there are days I feel like she should be turning 21. lol. She keep us all in smiles around here. You just never know what she is going to do or say.

We are getting ready for the start of the school year around here. The boys do not want to start school yet... I do not blame them... Mom does not want to either!!!! Emenet on the other hand is looking forward to starting school. She will be going to preschool 3 days a week! She can not wait to meet new friends. I think this will be our last year of homeschooling, Christopher is on a waiting list for a school that is for high functioning Aspeger's high schooler's. I think this would be great for him. Nick is wanting to go to high school. We are praying for wisdom as to where he will go...Lead us to the right place, Lord! We both think Emenet will be better in a traditional school setting. Praying about where that will be also. Life is changing...in so many ways...till next time... hopefully I will post more regularly....

Home

Well, we are going home from the hospital today. I never thought I would be spending this long in the hospital with Christopher again. He has been through a lot these past 12 days. My prayer is that this time we fixed everything and the placement of a shunt will prevent anything from happening again. I am excited to be heading home. It will be nice to be together as a family again. He has a bunch of recovering to do. He will have to be on IV antibiotics for 4 weeks. I am getting an education all over again. I know that God is faithful and He is mighty and He can heal Christopher's body. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us. On to the next step of this journey....