New Year, New Trials, Friends,.... House? I think so.

HAPPY NEWWW YEARRR! Well. I'm almost 2 months late on that one, my bad! : ]

Trials... Oh boy. On October 19th 2009 my mom had a terrible accident. I don't want to go into too much detail on here, so I"ll give you guys the Readers Digest version. My mom and my little brother went on a hiking trip at Lake Lansing North (by our new house, but I'll talk about that later). Liza, Ava and I were at volleyball at the time, and my dad was at work. When volleyball ended I got a call from my dad saying mom was going to the hospital because she had an accident in the woods. My first thought? "Oh boy mom, she decided to go all nature girl on us..... she should ask for persmission next time" Thinking it wasn't that big of a deal. Upon our arrival at the hospital, we waited for a good 30 minutes with my dad. We went around the corner for only 30 seconds, during that short time, the ambulance pulled up. As the girls and my dad sprinted around the corner we saw my mom being unloaded.... God is so good because we only saw the back of her head in the stretcher.

I remember (and hope to forget) the nurse running up to us and very nervously urging us to go into a private room. Inside the room there were two couches and two chairs, and about 20 boxes of tissues. As soon as I realized why the tissues were there, I (along with Liza and Ava)started bursting into tears. Moments later, a very official looking doctor came in (with more tissue may I add) and asked to see my dad outside.... privately. At this point, I was actually afraid for my mom's life. I pray that I will never be in that kind of situation again.

When the doctor came in, he also brought my brother (who was with my mom the entire time, mind you). I regret what Liza, Ava and I did when he came in. We ignored him. Not purposefully, but because we were so upset and we were so scared what the doctor was saying to my dad just outside the door. I finally realized Asher's existence in the room, and I just remember thinking, "What has my little brother seen? Why does his face look so out of this world scared/nervous/scary?" (I'm actually tearing up a little bit right now as I write this because it's so fresh in my mind)

All of this happened so quickly. My dad went back with the doctor, running full speed. (My dad isn't a runner, so not only was it a shock within itself. But it scared us silly that something really bad was happening behind the doors that we couldn't go past.) A few minutes later, a nurse came over and gave me a walky-talky so I could talk to my mom. The conversation was short and dismal. All I remember was both of us crying, and me repeatedly sobbing, "Please don't go, please!" Then my dad got on the line, and told us that we needed to go home, and that he would be spending the night at the hospital. That is what we were left with. Four kids crying in the hospital lobby and not even knowing what was going on. When we came back out to my car, both of the front doors were wide open. Scared much? Yes. Petrified with fear? Much better definition of that emotion. All three ducklings were behind me, and I just charged forward and went right into the car, looked around, and nothing was gone. Do you know what I had in that car!? I had a GPS, a camera, purses, necklaces (not gold, but special to me!), shoes, and my wallet!! Yet another thing that God saved us from! : ) PLUS, when I took a right out of the hospital, some yahoooo driver nearly took us out. It was REALLY bad!

I fail at Reader's Digest versions.

In the woods, my mom tripped on her walking stick and the stick went through her eyelid, and right into the tiny space between the bridge of your nose and your eyeball. It missed her actualy eyeball by a slice of a millimeter. It also stopped short by that same amount to her brain. If it had have touched her brain she would have died in those woods with my little brother. It broke her eyesocket, her nose, and SO many other things in that tiny area. I will refrain from the horrifying details of those two hours she was in the woods and the whole ambulance mishap! I'm actually going to fastforward about 2 weeks. She was in the hospital for 2+ weeks. She could see with that eye when it happened, before her surgery, and after surgery. Because the doctor did not check in on her, the pressure in her eye almost made it explode, so that had to do an emergency surgery right in her bed without any meds and cut her actual eye open and most of her face to try and save it, but it was too late. The pressure was too much, and when that happened, it pinched the optic nerve behind the eyeball, blinding her in that eye.

Fast forward to now. Through this trial I have learned more about the human eye than I ever cared to know, got to know what an amazing, strong, beautiful, and Godly woman my mom is, and I also learned that I will never ever be a doctor. My mom is just now (4 months after the accident) starting to drive, I'll update you when she's out and about :)

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FrIeNdS! I am a people person. I like meeting new homies. I've met a lot of great people in 2010! I went to SpringHill and met a ton of people from GL and South that were prettttyyyy cool! Last night actually I went to a Bible Study with my friend Sarah, and I met two new girls that were wayyy cool and got to re-connect with two that I hadn't seen in a LONG time! It was so great! I've also really enjoyed making friends in YG because when we first started going to Graham, I didn't know anyone there, and I always felt like the odd duck. SO, to finalize the friend part... GO FRIENDS!

This year has been pretty awesome! To add on top of that, we're MOVING! After a five year struggle of selling our house, we finally sold it! We actually bought a house closer to life with 36 acres the first day it was on the market! Thankfully, we just happend to sell our house 1 month later after that purchase! We have to be moved out of our house by March 31st 2010! We also have to redo most of the new house because it was a repo so we are going to be living in a mess for awhile! (I'll keep ya updated on that one:)) If you guys have room ideas for colors or anything, let me know because I neeeeed helllppppp! :)

Psalm 13:5 "But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation."

Over and out

~G~