It snowed!

I love the white, quiet, peaceful, calming effect

of snow. I like the way the house feels with the snow blowing

all around outside, and we are nice and warm inside. Opening

all the curtains wide and watching it gently falling to the ground.

Ahhh…love it.

Grandaughter Allison and Daughter Stephanie,

Niece and Auntie!

Allie has been spending a few days at our house,

and we have loved it!

Jake doing schoolwork. Ben finishing up his work too! The woodstove doing it’s job and keeping us warm.

“This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears,

all nature sings, and ’round me rings the music of the spheres.

This is my Father’s world, I rest me in the thought

of rocks and trees, of skies and seas; His hand the wonders wrought.”

This is one of my favorite hymns. When I look around my immediate

surroundings, I see God’s hand everywhere. His creation

blesses us everyday.

Ben and Caleb

January 4th of last year, Caleb had brain surgery. When he was 18 months old, he had a 99.6 degree temperature, he seemed to have a small cold. He started having a seizure, we had never seen one before and 99 degrees is a low temp to have a seizure. We called for an ambulance which took a long time to arrive because we live so far out of town. The doctors said that because he was in the seizure for such a long time it caused scar tissue in his left temporal lobe. We cried out to God, we prayed for a cure and for wisdom to know what to do. We tried everything we could to find a natural way to stop or control the seizures. I smile at what a trooper Caleb was to eat, drink, and put up with all the things we had him try. We ended up putting him on strong medication, but even that didn’t work, he was still having seizures. Caleb’s seizures were getting worse. And at 11 yrs. old, his memory was starting to fail…quickly. He couldn’t remember his math facts, and he would pause before he could answer you. He seemed to be in a fog. The surgery is very risky, but at that point the seizures were more of a risk than the surgery. The doctors had to do surgery to get rid of the scar tissue, and hopefully that would stop the seizures. You can imagine with your (mother) heart, how I was feeling at this time . The surgery went well (praise God), and he didn’t have another seizure until July, and the seizures he now has are very mild and infrequent. Although we would love to say he is seizure free, we are so thankful for where we are right now, compared to a year ago. God is faithful and maybe one day Caleb will be seizure free.

Caleb a few hours after surgery.