That is about how much time we will be on the road over the next 48 hours.
We leave as soon as Garrett gets off his shift today and head down to Georgia for the weekend. It was his last certain weekend of before he starts another medicine rotation (which severely limits his time off). We come home on Sunday.
Trips are coming more frequently.
Here's to keeping faith that the car will keep working, the girls will keep healing and a miracle will happen before this year ends.
Beth - I was deeply affected by reading about yours and Garrett's journey with your girls...sometimes my mind thinks like Dr. Seus, so I hope you don't mind this little poem:
ReplyDeleteI read your saga today with respect and awe
An amazingly committed family is what I saw.
For all that you’ve gone through, I’m sure few really ever know…
But I can see that you surely have quite a “row to hoe”!
That you’ve stood up to the challenges with dignity and strength
That you’ve learned needed parenting skills to use and to what length –
That you’ve opened your heart to be pierced with sharp little arrows
By dear babies whose trust darts and scrambles about like sparrows…
Is to know that you’re indeed the “right man for the job”
The Mom who knows when – or not - to give into a sob;
Who expects the most...who expects only the best
Who keeps her sense of reality about her so her heart can rest.
Who loves so deeply as to deny from within
Her need for her child to come home and be with kin
The emotional fortitude to do what’s best for her child
Even though it drives her quite desperately wild.
You have my respect, dear Beth, young one
For the amazing job that you have done
Your strength, so fragile - and yet so strong
Is what makes you such an incredible Mom.