Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tender Mercies Tuesday

I have mentioned that the Outpatient was a little difficult to get here. His heart didn't work correctly for about 4 months before he was born and he went into heart failure while in-utero - the doctors took good care of us, did everything they could think of to keep him alive and inside for as long as possible. So long in fact, that they finally evicted him 9 days late.

Before he left for Brazil to serve as a missionary, the Best Friend and I could not get him to focus on the tasks at hand. Like packing and cleaning up his messes. Every time I turned around he had a soccer ball. Apparently he felt the need to practice for this.....






I can't even adequately express my gratitude to my Father in Heaven that I have a healthy, active, show off of a son dribbling in Brazil- for all the amazing blessings of tender mercy that were bestowed on me and him to get him to this point

8 comments:

Kayla said...

Awe this is so sweet! I love it! Miss this kid! I can't believe only 6 months! I'm jealous haha

Lana said...

how wonderful! I hope someday to send my boy on a mission!

Unknown said...

you got a CD?? why is it that i'm hearing about this over you blog???????;)

Unknown said...

and, as the best friend, i concur! He wouldn't do anything! His little brain was buzzing a hundred miles a minute with things that he wanted to do instead of things he NEEDED to do.. ha ha ha what a dork..

alex said...

Are you still planning on visiting when he gets home?

Head Nurse or Patient- you be the judge said...

we hope to- but it will depend on a lot of things- like money for one-

Mickie and Matt said...

I expirienced something similar with my husband before he left on his mission. He even unpacked everything I packed for him and replaced it with stuff he DIDNT need then wrote me a month later asking me to send him everything I had originally packed. OHH you mean you WANT sheets? Geek.

Natalie said...

What a great blessing that your missinary is serving such a wonderful mission.