Happy Sunday!
What a beautiful day today has been. It has been jam packed with wonderful things which is why I am so late with my update! I cannot begin to tell you all how thankful I am that Kayleigh is feeling so well. Prayers, medicine and treatments are helping so much. Truly, if you didn’t know our story you would look at her and think she is a perfectly healthy, normal, little girl. With this diagnosis it would be easy to get caught up in trying to look ahead at the “what ifs” but what a waste of time that would be. We are learning to live in the now and enjoy these wonderful days the Lord is giving us. One. Day. At. A. Time. None of us are guaranteed tomorrow. My advise to everyone is don’t waste the gift of today by worrying about tomorrow.
Since Kayleigh feels so well we are able to fill up our weekends with family, friends and making memories. Another of the blessings is that we get to spend Sunday mornings with our church family. I still get to teach Sunday School, Tim gets to run sound, the kids get to enjoy their friends, and we all get so much encouragement from being in God’s house. If you are reading this and aren’t a part of a church family I would highly suggest you start looking and get plugged in! There is nothing better than being with other believers that pray for and encourage you.
This afternoon my side of the family descended on my mom’s house to celebrate my grandmother and youngest brother’s birthdays. It’s always fun to have a house full of running, screaming, laughing cousins but we treasure the time together even more now.
We also had many special visitors today. Friends drove up from Trussville to deliver a prayer blanket to Kayleigh. She absolutely loved it and promptly curled up under it in my lap for a cat nap. Talk about treasures that a mother stores up in her heart. I just sat and rocked and rocked. We had sweet friends in and out all afternoon bringing us encouraging words, gifts for Kayleigh, love offerings from their churches and community groups, and most importantly prayer.
We finished off our day with dinner with friends and loading the car for tomorrow morning. As I type this now we are ready to go and will hit the road by 8:30 so we don’t have to rush. Kayleigh’s first appointment is at 2:00 and radiation is at 2:15. We also lower the steroids again tomorrow morning… Thank you Jesus!!!
Specific prayer requests:
1.) Complete healing this side of heaven!
2.) That Kayleigh will tolerate the decrease in steroids tomorrow as we start the next week of radiation.
3.) That she will continue to have no bad side effects.
4.) That Cole’s ultra sound will be scheduled quickly and easily.
5.) Safe travels back to Memphis!
We thank you all for your prayers – we love you.
Until tomorrow (technically later today) –
‘Carrow 💜
