Pray for Meredith

We had a relaxing day today with only a few therapies this morning.  Meredith is really walking now.  She looks a little unsteady and her short attention span gets her off the direct path, but she is really doing it herself.  And she’s doing stairs with the use of the hand rail.  She loves passing the nurses station, waving to them, talking with them and hugging them.  They are all amazed by her progress.

I am really starting to day dream now about coming home.  We’ve had so many “firsts” these last several weeks that I wondered if we’d ever have.  Like her first time sitting up in a wheelchair, her first time holding a crayon, her first words, her first step.  Now I’m longing for her first time back in her room, her first trip back into our church and our school, her first time seeing Lannie and Spike.  And all of us being together again in one place — it’s coming!  Two and a half more weeks and we get LOTS of “firsts!”  Praise God, the Giver of ALL good gifts.