On the ordinary fall evening that our family entered Nationwide Children's Hospital, we had no idea we would remain there for the next 24 days. Long enough to see the Christmas decorations appear.
During those long, sleepy days we found ways to sneak the comforts of
home into our room.
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| Steve packed up the sock monkey, who was just the right size for snuggling. |
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| Homemade Thanksgiving dinner from the Efries family. |
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| Fruit snacks and fishing in the play room. |
The staff and volunteers at Children's put their heart and soul into providing moments of beauty and cheer in the midst of terribly difficult times.
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| First post-surgery steps. |
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| Doctors making their early morning rounds. |
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| He was waiting to throw "snowballs" at his nurse, but fell asleep with
ammunition in hand. |
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Listening
to a Christmas concert in the hospital lobby. |
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| Play-time therapy is the best kind of recovery activity. |
All of this made life bearable, until it was finally time to go home!
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| Home to our own sweet little apartment, and beautiful Christmas
decorations. |
Crying mommy tears with you christina.....there were surely moments in the past month that you must have felt you couldn't even breath. The song lyrics "in christ alone my hope is found" just played while I was looking at your pics. He surely is all we have and He is so much more than we can ever imagine. Praying rich and wondrous blessings on you and little Blake. Can't wait to hear more of God's miracles in Blake's life.
ReplyDeleteYou hold our deepest love and respect. What an awesome testimony you all have!!! God is not finished yet! Greater things are still to be done! <3
ReplyDeletebeautiful post Christina! so glad that you were well taken care of while you were there. so many prayers being prayed for your family!
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