All I want for Christmas

All I want is a home for a precious little girl named Tonya. You can read more about her here.

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LeslieNelsen/746890/

Prayers for Daniel

Tomorrow, Daniel will be going to the Duke Eye Center to meet with a neuro opthamologist. We have been told that he will be there for 3 hours of testing, though I don't know what any of the tests will be. I do know that his eyes will be dilated and that is really about it.

I think 3 hours of testing could be hard for anyone. I know that having your eyes dilated is no fun. For our sweet little boy with sensory processing issues though, it is all magnified and compounded. It's going to be a hard day for him. I'm going to be taking things with me to try to help, but it's hard to plan for something when you really have no idea what is going on. (If anyone has suggestions, I'm open to hearing them.)

For those who may have missed an earlier post on this, Daniel has "prominent optic nerve pallor". This was seen at his last routine eye appt in Oct. She has referred us to a specialist to see if there is something going on. I've googled a little bit to find out more of what we are dealing with. Pallor is also sometimes called "atrophy". It also appears a little more worrisome that it is in just one eye.

I have to be honest - I'm scared. I try not to think about it much and that is helpful. (The Scarlet O'Hara method of dealing with things.) There are times though when I have to face it. I'm not trying to borrow trouble and thus try not to think on the "what ifs". I still find that I am fearful of what the future my hold for our little boy. Scared that there will be something. Scared that it will be another something "big". Again though, I don't dwell on it.

I know God is holding our little boy. I know He loves us. I know He is with us. It is really all I can hold on to right now.

I've been told that it may take a month to get the results back. I'm really hoping that is not the case! I would love to know more on Thursday. I really just want to hear that he is fine.

Thank you for praying once again for our family.

With love,

Leslie

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in the mountains with my parents and my sister's family. We had a wonderful time together. This is the first time we've all been together since this summer. We spent a week together at the beach just before Joshua was diagnosed with diabetes.

As I look through my pictures, I realize that there were a lot of things I didn't get pictures of this year! I should have taken more pictures. Oh well.

We enjoyed a traditional meal with lots of yummy foods. The table was beautifully decorated.



Rebecca added a new piece to the decorations this year in placecards. She made these very cute turkeys for each person! Didn't she do a great job?



We had a nice selection of pies for dessert (the only food I got a picture of this year). Rebecca made 5 different pies for us to choose from. She also calculated the carbs on each of the pies too!



We had a relaxing time while we were there. We played games.



The girls did some knitting.



We enjoyed a play that Rebecca wrote for Thanksgiving (which was really cute!).




We read books, talked and did some organizing. Roger took some of our children to a Christmas parade and they enjoyed getting some candy. It was fun to just spend time with family.





Eliana got an early birthday present. A stuffed animal that sings Happy Birthday. It's mouth moves and so does the animal. Eliana loves it! She quickly learned how to make it sing and has been having a great time with it. (And thankfully we didn't have to listen to it all the way home either.)




Thanks Mom and Dad for having us up. We had a great time and appreciate your hospitality! We look forward to having you here sometime soon.

I have much for which I'm thankful and enjoy this holiday and the traditions that go with it.

Blessings,
Leslie

Testing out a possible move

I'm very frustrated with some of the problems I'm having with my other blog and am going to test out posting here as well. We'll see if the other blog can be fixed/corrected. If not, I'll be moving.

Blessings
Leslie

Active blog is

here.

www.homeschoolblogger.com/LeslieNelsen

I have debated starting a new one - but haven't just yet. So visit here if you are interested in seeing what is going on in our lives.

Blessings,
Leslie

Trying this out

Just wanting to see how things work and how they look on this site.

I'd like to be able to post more pictures here and am hoping this will work. I think looking at pictures is the best part of visiting a blog.