Being still…
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Dear Friends,
Wow, I can not believe that it has been so long since I’ve updated this. Please forgive me. The days are speeding by. We literally are watching these children grow before our very eyes.
At this moment, Katie is ’selling’ me a few books from her bookstore. Grace is running around in a long T-shirt as she frequently visits the boys room trying to wake them up. Oh, Sean is awake and just came through in Spiderman attire.
The latest is that both boys are going into the hospital this weekend to have a Bronchoscopy done. They both have a blockage in the upper right lobe of their lungs and we need to get that opened up and cleared out. We suspect that this has been the case for a while and we are just now finding it. They had their first CT scan done late last week and that is how we found it.
Please continue to pray for us as we make our way back through all the logistics of being at Vanderbilt with our kids. Please pray that all goes well with the procedure and for safety for our kids. They will have PICC lines again in order to have two weeks of IV antibiotics at home. Anyone know of a GREAT probiotic? Both of the boys were upset to hear that they were going in again, but they are glad that they will get the remote for the TV the whole weekend.
We are being still and waiting right now for some questions to be answered about the property. Because of property line setbacks and slope, the land has been deemed to need serious improvements before we can build. This has us at a stand still because of the added expense. The good people that gave us the land were not aware of this when they gave it to us…they are currently looking into some alternative lots as a possible solution to this problem. Thank you Lord!
In January, I released a song from the CD to Christian Country radio. I did this to try and spur sales of the CD once the holidays were over. Sales have been very slow since November…
Much to my surprize, ‘What the Lord Gave Me to do’ has done very well at radio and has risen to #4 on the Christian Music Weekly chart. I am waiting to hear about where it is in The Powersource magazine’s top 100 chart. In the April issue, it was at #23. Amazing! All of this as I head out this morning to Mr. Corley’s house to patch a few places on his walls and paint his dining room.
Thank you so much to all the great people at radio that have put it on their playlist. We have heard from a lot of friends about hearing it on the radio and from a few places about coming out to play and sing and tell our story. We are so excited.
As soon as we hear about the land, then we finish getting approved with Owner/Builder network’s financing and will begin building! We heard from a drywall company yesterday that said they should be able to help with supplying the new mold resistant drywall. Once we have a start date, we will put the word out to everyone in as many ways as we know how. We also will then be able to name names of all who have donated building materials and land.
This project has changed our lives in so many ways. The house will improve our children’s lives in so many ways. I don’t know if some of you realize this…but it will actually add years!
Thanks to all of you! God Bless!
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