We're Home!!

Hey all! It is about 11pm on Thursday and we are home!! I can hardly believe it. The pictures above are us leaving the hospital. Dr. Fearon told us today that her swelling and everything were completely normal and there was no reason that we couldn't go home! So here we are...thank you for praying for us.

Abby is doing great. She doesn't look that great, but she doesn't look so bad either. Her entire head and neck are REALLY swollen. Her eyes are completely swollen shut and they are black and blue. So when she is awake, she is sometimes a little agitated I think because she cannot see. Tonight for awhile though she laid here and smiled and cooed...which was So fun to see!!

My heart is completely overwhelmed with thankfulness to our Heavenly Father. Psalm 34 pretty much sums up how I am feeling...I will just share with you the beginning here and some of the verses in the middle...(you can read the entire Psalm yourself:-))

"I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make its boast in the Lord; the humble will hear it and rejoice. O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together. I sought the Lord and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears....The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them. O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!...The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous And His ears are open to their cry...The righteous cry and the Lord hears And delivers them from all of their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted And saves those who are crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all..."

Over these last weeks and months the Lord has heard my cry, been with me through the pain and delivered me from my fears! Praise the Lord!! My heart has been broken...but never without Hope! Isn't this the life of a mother? Parent? I am so thankful I have a loving Heavenly Father there to walk with me through those times of heartache and rejoice with me in the times of sweetness...and somehow, sometimes, these two things (heartache and rejoicing) are possible at the same time. Right now would be one of those times for me. Thank you again for your prayers...we are forever grateful!!!