Fridays the big day

Hey all, this week has been a whirlwind. I can't believe in 36 hrs we will be checking in to the hospital for Sophies expander removal surgery. Seriously this is huge! This has been her whole life so far almost they have been in. I have to tell you all we had the most silly blessing tonight but who says God doesn't care about the small stuff. The nurse called to tell me the preop instructions and apparently the fast for formula is 8 hrs vs breast milk is 6 hrs and I just weaned Sophie 3 weeks ago. So on a whim I dug through our freezer and found one lone blessed bag of frozen milk, a gift from God. So her surgery is noon on Fri. So she can have that wonderful breastmilk for breakfast at 6 am (No cheerios though, sorry kid) and clear juice until 8 am. We will be staying overnight again this time and Craigs mom is coming to stay with Grace. Her surgery should only be a couple of hours and she should actually recover faster this time but initially its a little tougher with the drains to reduce the swelling. We had a nice relaxing vacation last week which the Good Lord knows I needed so badly and I felt a lot of guilt at first about not going to my Grandmas funeral but when we were in the car on our way up to the upper peninsula I felt this tremendous release through my whole body that I could finally relax! I feel as though I have been holding all this stress so tightly in my body about many things that I couldn't believe how good it felt to just get away. Sophie is doing awesome! We did her last injection last night and bless her little heart despite those giant balloons she has invented her own mode of transportation I call the "lurch" because its not quite crawling. However next week she will feel so liberated. Please join me in prayer for her on Friday. I have been so blessed for all the prayers she has been getting through this journey! Love to all, Amanda