Quiet Nights

Odette really does do better at nights here at the hospital! She can sleep through diaper changes and getting all of her vitals taken! At home, I guess I need to start doing the same thing and eveyone will get better nights rest. Things are going okay. Odette looks like a marshmallow-all puffy and squishy. Her eyes open up to little slits. This is because of the chemo, it will go away in a few days. She is doing well and is happy. We are now just waiting for her chemo to leave her blood stream and then we will be back on our way home. She is such a fighter! I am so proud of her and love her. She is also eating from a bottle now, even from me, which is a wonderful blessing! Then the feeding tube can eventually come out-and not because she has pulled it out!

It is funny how things happen, but Josselyn was getting paper out to color yesterday and she found one that I had stuffed in a pocket "for safe keeping until later" and it had this great quote on it.

"Mercies and blessings come in different forms-sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in ALL things.' All things means just that: good things, difficult things-not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy."

This is true. The more we can be grateful for EVERYTHING the happier we truly will be. I am thankful to know this and am thankful for our trial at this time. Great things are happening because of it.