We've been having such a fun Christmas season with the kids. We've been trying to be very purposeful in the activities we choose to do and our first priority is spending time with family. We've done a lot of spending time with family and that has been great. The kids are eating up this precious time with Uncle Tim, Aunt Rachel and cousin Joy. Each day they want to know when is the next time they will get to play together. My brothers are in town also and so it's been so nice to see Uncle Jarrett, Aunt Dorothy, cousins Sam and Seth, Uncle Jon, Aunt Carmen and cousins Bradley, Andrew, Jordan and Jon-Luke. Mia has attached herself to Bradley and wants to be just like him, sit by him at the dinner table and do as much as she can with him. Thankfully he loves kids and does a super job interacting with Mia. Calvin and Jon-Luke are two peas in a pod and love doing everything together. Asher fits in well too and everyone is just having so much fun together. It's a very sweet time and we are just savoring every minute.
We added in a third medicine to Mia's meds a few weeks ago and it appears to be what she needed to stop her seizures. She's been seizure free for a week and we are so thankful. It's been almost a year since her seizures started and she has rarely gone more than a day without a seizure, so to be without for a week...the feeling of immense gratitude is indescribable. I tear up just writing about it because it's been such a long year for her and for us. God couldn't have picked a better Christmas present for us than this. Praise God!!! And yet, what we've gone through has been a difficult year, nothing can compare to the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross for us. And while we've been blessed with a seizure free Christmas, the ultimate gift is Jesus himself. For that, we are eternally grateful and it gives us the hope and ability to keep running the race for Him.
So as always, thank you for praying for Mia. We are so grateful and we wish you and your family, a very Merry Christmas from our house to yours!
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