Perspective

When I was pregnant with Katie I had a conversation with a friend about enjoying each moment. At the time her baby was around 9 months old and still waking up several times at night - what surprised me was that she had such a great attitude about it. She had decided to enjoy her baby, even at the hard times (including at three in the morning), knowing that time would pass too quickly. I decided to try to take on that same perspective. So while it's been difficult to spend at least 12 hours of my day either nursing, pumping, or bottle feeding my sweet baby I am grateful that I’ve been able to see that this too will pass and that I'll probably never again have the excuse or opportunity to spend this much time with her.

You can’t tell, but Katie was wide awake just watching me – have I mentioned how much I LOVE this girl?!?

Sunday Jason had a runny nose and slight cough which by yesterday morning escalated to his asthma acting up and lots of wheezing and coughing. We did several treatments throughout the day, however last night he was at his worst. His little heart was pounding so fast. It's so hard to see a child struggle and not be able to fix them. We seriously considered taking him to the emergency room. Jason was wiped out though and was able to sleep well considering he had to work so hard to breathe. He woke up a once during the night so we were able to continue the treatments and he has been MUCH better today.

Only a few hours after the picture above was taken I sat in the same spot holding my suddenly ginormous boy while he slept though a treatment last night

As Justin and I were getting ready to go to bed yesterday we were watching an episode of TLC's "19 kids and counting" where the 19th child in the Dugger family (born 15 weeks premature) was fighting for her life. Her entire body could fit in the palm of Justin’s hand. It sure did put things into perspective. Sure we have our struggles and obstacles but we are blessed with four beautiful, healthy children.