Doing much better

My Sophie is back, smily and talkative as ever. She stills beams when she looks at me and I am thankful for her safe return from her very long week. Well yesterday was Sophies official post-op (nevermind that we had three other dr appts since surgery since she had been having such a rough time of it!) and she was given all gold stars. Everything is 95% healed and she doesn't need anymore bandaging. Now we just need to wait a few weeks to see how well it worked. To back up a bit, when I had last posted it was the end of a really bad weekend. As the week went on it got gradually better but it was really tough as she continued to scream every night with bandage changes. In fact this past Sat night, when Craigs mom was visiting (the first time we actually had help!) was the first time she didn't scream through the whole thing and was completely cheery! She hasn't had any tylenol since Thurs I think! So a huge thank you to everyone for all your prayers. I really learned the meaning of the song by Casting Crowns this week "Praise you in this storm" which says "And I'll praise you in this storm and I will lift my hands for You are who You are no matter where I am and every tear I've cried You hold in your hand You never left my side and though my heart is torn I will praise You in this storm." It was evident to us all through the last week and a half even in our darkest moments that God is good. Thinking back to that Fri when everything went down hill it was no coincidence that that was the day the prayer quilt arrived and the pharmacist was working at a different location and chose to pray with my husband. God doesn't keep bad things from happening to us but he definitely loves us through them. If you have stumbled upon my blog and don't believe in a Great and Loving God I beg of you to seek him out and you will be found and you will be blown away. I consider it my humble duty to record these moments for my darling daughter that she may look back on a period in her life that she was not even aware of and be amazed by Gods love and mercy. This I pray will be the story of her faith. Amanda