Can I get a loud HALLELUJAH!!!

I just sat down to check my email, and found an update on our sweet Hannah Noel.

Here is what it said...
(written by Dan)

"I'm packing up cameras and car seats and the kids and we're all on our way to the hospital to bring our little girl home. We just got the OK from the doctors.

Hopefully we'll be home by 3:00 or 4:00, resting and enjoying a return to normal (for us) life."

After spending 80+ days in NIC and NIM at Spectrum, after way to many ups and downs, after losing her sister, and coming close to losing her too, after thousands of prayers form all over the country (literally)...one of Gods sweet little miracles is coming home!!!!!!!

On a VERY selfish note, I am sad that, once Hannah is home, no one will get to see her til spring(insert sad face). But...I am going to praise God for this miracle...and thank him daily for answered prayer. To quote one of my fav hymns, my Lord "HOW GREAT THOU ART"!!

The mountain is shrinking...

Presidencial paper and power point DONE!!!

Drug rep research DONE!!

Now all that is left is...

• write drug rep presentation


• put together drug rep power point

(this is a 3 to 5 minute presentation...so preperation should not be all that time consuming!!)

• 25 Drug cards!!!

The end is in sight folks...the end is in sight!!!

I should not be here...but...

This was entirely to funny not to share...

ENJOY!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Interesting...

In my absence from the blogger world I have been doing a lot(read mountains) of homework. I am down to the final 2 weeks of the semester and I have procrastinated, leaving myself with 2 projects, one paper and about 25 more drug cards to complete in this short time frame.

It is my fault, I did not budget my time as well as I could have. But...in my researching I came across this interesting document. I was amazed and a little creeped out by it, but I wanted to share because is it very interesting.

(I am doing a report on the medical ordeals of JFK, and because he and Abe Lincoln were the only 2 Presidents to be assassinated...I came across this in my research)

• Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846
• John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946
• Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860
• John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960
• The names Lincoln and Kennedy both contain seven letters
• Both were particularly concerned with civil rights
• Both their wives lost children while living in the White House
• Both Presidents were shot on a Friday
• Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy
• Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln
• Both were assassinated by southerners
• Both were succeeded by southerners
• Both successors were named Johnson
• Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808
• Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908
• John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1939
• Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939
• Both assassins were known by 3 names
• Both names comprise of fifteen letters
• Booth ran from the theater and was caught in the warehouse
• Oswald ran from the warehouse and was caught in a theater
• Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials

OK...now that is just a little weird...right?

I'll be back in a few weeks...a whole lot less stressed and ready to celebrate Christmas!!

Giving THANKS!!

I am thankful for my family.
I am thankful for my friends.
I am thankful for our health.
I am very thankful for all that I have been blessed with this year.

I hope you have a great holiday!!

Thanks for being a part of my life!!

I'm thankful for answered prayers...

I was able to stop at the hospital after school yesterday. And I wanted to let you know that God does answer prayers, (in case anyone doubted)!!

I arrived at the NIMU, (Hannah has been moved out of NIC...answered prayer #1!!) I was instructed to "scrub-up", (I was still wearing my scrubs, which are required at my Tuesday class...so I fit right in.) Then I was lead down a long hall, to the very last room, and there they were, Tami sitting in a hospital recliner...holding sweet little (4lb. 5oz. 17 in. long) Hannah Noel!! (answered prayer #2!!) She has only ONE tube which is for feeding, but she is IV free, and is doing well. (answered prayer #3!!!) I think the child just finds joy in keeping us all on the edge of our seat.

Tami said Hannah had a good few days. The new formula is agreeing with her...her stomach is remaining steady and soft...and she is digesting 99% of her food. They are going to keep her on this formula for a while...the GI specialist has a feeling that her tiny intestines have some sort of injury that needs time to heal.

She is awfully sweet. She makes the cutest little baby faces...she even opened her eyes for her "auntie" Shann!!! We spent some time trying to decide who she looks like...and quite frankly she looks a little bit like all of her siblings!!

I was nice to spend time with Tam...we usually talk on the phone way to much...and I have missed her the last couple months. I was also nice to hear her laugh...and see her smile...and see her holding that little girl. God does answer prayers...and I am so thankful for that.

Frustration

Well, it is Friday! And with the end of the week...comes weigh-in day!! After my 3 week hiatus I really buckled down this week, I even got up at 6 am. and worked out 4 days this week!! I was very excited to go this morning, because I was sure I had dropped a pound, or 3!! But alas...no such luck! I did lose...only a half a pound...but it wasn't a gain.

Now I will work extra hard this week...even with the presence of the "stuff-ones-face" holiday. I will get up and work out every morning...and if the scale doesn't treat me good next week...I may just do something irrational??