For today, I am just going to send you over to a new blog that I found. It has really yummy recipes, and since I have been looking for an update to my dinner ritual, It has been a perfect save. It looks really fancy, but most of the stuff you can find in you pantry fridge, freezer.
I tried the red beans and rice last night, and the kids LOVED it. Well, all but 2 of 5, but there is always one. Saturday I am trying the Thai peanut noodles. Sorry, I would have put a link to these recipes, but I don't think there is a (I'm at a loss for the right word) thing to put in a key word, and it finds it for you. You'll want to browse through all the recipes anyway. It give you great ideas.
I would also like to put a few blogs out there that I have been reading. I don't know a few of them personally, but I'm a blog reader. I love to look for blogs through others blogs. Since I am part of the DS community, I know quiet a few moms with kids with DS. Some personally, some just through the blog world. DS blogs will usually lead you to CHD blogs, who are refered to as heart friends. Doing this, has open my eyes to a whole world of birth defect, and trisomies, heart issues, cancer, and anything else out there, imaginable and unimaginable. Somethings you may know about, somethings you may not have wanted to know about. I love to see the roads others walk. I love to know their struggles, trials, and successes. There are people all over, who win, and who have more heart ache than you would think one person could handle, I am grateful for MY trials, and my blessing, they are one in the same. I am almost as grateful for my hard days, as I am my shining days.
Take a minute to peek into a few other lives, if not only to see that there is way more going on than we will ever know, but to empathise, and hope for these families.
Elaina is a little girl I have been following for about 6 months now. She is a month older than 5 of 5, and has spent all but about 2 months in the hospital. She is a CDH baby.
Then there is Carter. He is a baby I met in the hospital when he was about 3 weeks old. I got to meet him and his family working as the newborn contact for the UDSF. He has had a few set backs, but is a cute happy little guy. And I am so excited about how he is growning and learning.
The last one, is a little girl named Mercy. She has what's called Charge Syndrome. I don't know if any of you have heard of it, I hadn't. Here is the link to the web site, that tells you about it. She is having a few set backs right now, I hope for her family, that things work out the best for her. I hope she gets her strength back, and recovers.
2 comments:
One of my friends that I went to high school with has a daughter with CHARGE syndrome. We reconnected on facebook and that was the first time I had ever heard of it! Her daughter has spent a TON of her life in the hospital but seems like she is doing pretty well now. Thanks for sharing those links. I love to blogstalk too and often times find myself crying and sharing in someone else's heartbreak that I've never met!
Wow - Carter made it into your blog post - you are so nice. We loved meeting you at the hospital and are thankful for people like you who so freely give of their time to help others with difficult situations. We were still very much "deer in the headlights" shocked when you met us. Thank you for all you do - you are so awesome. One day we need to get together so that I can meet your 4 of 5.
And as a really sad side note, Mercydez passed away this morning. She is now pain free and running with the angels, but our hearts are aching for her sweet family.
Kristi
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