Parker's Promise

This Morning I am really grateful. I am grateful for a good night's sleep. I am grateful that Parker was so successfully extubated and is breathing so well. I am thankful I get to hold him now and that his little heart rate calms down and he will fall asleep in our arms. I am thankful for time with my kids. Yesterday as I left my home, I was so thankful to be able to clean my own home. Sometimes it is so therapeutic to scrub and vacuum. I have been so overwhelmed with all of the wonderful meals, playdate, phone calls, visits,emails... Yesterday I was so touched. Our sweet neighbor lost his wife this summer after caring for her illnesses for many years. I had not realized that when I stopped to talk on Friday. We had a wonderful conversation on his driveway. He told me about his wife, and I shared with him a little about Parker and about how close we have felt to those who have passed on watching over him, especially that first week when his life was hanging by a thread. It was just a simple sweet conversation. I told him my sister always told me you need three hugs a day to be emotionally stable. Yesterday when I came to visit Parker and Darrell at the hospital, there was a brand new Panda bear. My sweet neighbor had come to the hospital had brought it to Parker. We have been so touched by so many kindnesses shown to our family. Thank you!!!