the good o' blog…

So… Alisha has been in the hospital since Tuesday.  There’s plenty of you out there that weren’t aware of that, and I’m sorry… I can get pretty overwhelmed by her health stuff.  (Sorry!)

She is doing ok right now.  She has a footlong section of intestines that is failing the same way her colon did.  (Meaning that the disease is spreading along her digestive track.)  We have some decisions to make on what to do next… but we aren’t going to rush into anything.  We’ll be here a few more days and then we’ll start figuring things out.

Tonight, Alisha wanted to get her bedding changed so she bundled up all 87 blankets at the bottom of the bed and sat in the recliner until the tech was available to put new bedding on.  About a half an hour later, I was about to run out to pick something up and told her that I would call her when I got there.  That’s when she realized and told me that her phone was on the bed.

Long story short… Brittany (the tech) and I had to run to the basement, to the bottom of the laundry chute, and rifle through the dirty linens to find the phone.  We probably would have been successful had we gotten down there 5 minutes earlier before the linen truck came to pick up.

Here are a few lessons that I learned…

1. Hospital linens are gross.  At least the dirty ones are… sure am glad that I was wearing gloves! (Probably needed biohazard gear!)
2. Laundry can be very dangerous rambling down 7 floors.  I nearly had to dive to push Brittany out of the way of a speeding linen bag, which almost landed on her head.
3. Stuff is stuff.  Brittany felt so bad, and couldn’t understand why we weren’t screaming at her.  I loved the adventure of the hunt!  (Getting sad about the missing phone wouldn’t help….and I would missed have missed out on these lessons and a fun search!)

Here’s us getting down and dirty.

This past Sunday, we had a baby dedication for Anderson (who is supposed to be sleeping right now, but is just talking to himself in his crib).  It was an amazing party.  We opted to not do the standard protestant tradition of having the church pray for him during the church service.  Rather we wanted to gather a group of people who were committed to holding us accountable as well as praying for him on a daily basis to come together and celebrate what God has given us.

It was a humbling time for Alisha and myself as we talked about our desire for a child and how we want to exemplify Christ to him.  The highlight of the gig was when people gathered around us to pray… it was amazing.  I was so emotionally worn out from it, I’m still not sure that I have completely recovered.

I made a video (that a number of people asked me to post) comprising of 1,321 pictures of Anderson’s short life.  I had to trim it down from about 5,000 photos and wasn’t sure I would be able to get it under 2K.  But in the interest of not making people absolutely sick over a five minute video, I worked it out (it is still pretty fast, hope you don’t puke).  Anyways, here it is.  And thanks to everyone for being so supportive of our family!!!!  You all are so gifted and have given so much to us, it’s unbelievable.