Celebrate every minute, hour, day, etc.

I'm not a huge Oprah fan, but some of her shows are interesting. The other day she had "miracles" on her show. My Mom and I happened to watch like literally 2 minutes of the show, in between chasing Tanner around her house. It was a blog called 99 balloons, and it was this father who blogged about his wife's pregnancy and then the birth and life of their baby with Trisomy 18. This baby was not suppose to live, but lived 99 days. They celebrated each day, and each month. On the babies month birthdays they had parties. It made me cry thinking about how fortunate I am.

The whole point of this was to hope to make you all think like it did myself and my Mom. I should be thanking God more than I do. Yes, I pray daily, but sometimes I look over how really fortunate I am by getting bogged down with the daily things. I try to ask God for forgiveness for my sins that day, pray for other people, and then thank God for things in my life.

One of the things that I obviously have on my prayer list is my son, Tanner. Working where I do, and watching that segment brought to my realization AGAIN how lucky I am. When I am frustrated by chasing Tanner around all day, I need to thank God the he can be mobile. Whe he is crying in the middle of the night, I should be thanking God he is at home and can cry for me. I should be thanking God all the time for the time we have with him, that he is healthy, happy, and here. I think of Tanner often while I am at work caring for kids that are sick. Often, the kids I take care of are "frequent flyers" at the hospital, kids who spend their childhood's here. When I take care of them, I try to treat them as my own, how I would want my son to be treated. Then I thank God again that he is healthy. God has a plan, he has a plan for the healthy, and for the sick. I truely believe that with all my heart. Sometimes we just don't know what the plan is, or why.

So today, I celebrate my son's 11month, 8 days, and 17 hours. I can't even count how many years, months, days, and hours old I am, but I celebrate that also....everyone should celebrate today and everyday.