Happy and Sad

I have been neglecting the blog and I am working on catch up posts but I had to post this today.

I have been following a blog http://stakerzxposed.blogspot.com/ everyday, even refreshing more than once a day, to see the progress of baby Bronson (15 months). He Drowned in the bathtub while his mom walked away to get something in the other room, he was with his older brother about 2.5 at the time and the water got turned back on after mom left (most all of us mothers have left at one point or another, what a reminder) and he slipped under. He has had a long week struggle but finally today he turned around and came back to his family! Such a wonderful story, go back to Feb 1st to read it all.

Then the past few days I also have been following the story of a Layton family who had a pest control company come out to their home to take care of some voles and incorrectly used (well they are still working on proving it) the toxic pebbles and the toxins seeped into the house making the whole family sick the next day. The carbon monoxide detectors went off and the fire department said it was fine, the family was checked out at the hospital but released a little while later. Their 4yr old daughter got worse and they too her back and she died with in a few hours on Saturday. Then on Monday their 15 month old daughter also was admitted to the hospital with the same symptoms and after a heroic battle the Dr's were unable to save her, she was also 15months old and at the same hospital as Baby Bronson.

So a 4yr old and 15 month old gone, another 15 month old miraculously saved. I have been praying so hard for both families I have never met. I can't imagine the heart ache of having a child so ill in the hospital let alone loosing one, or in this case two! I don't think i am strong enough to loose any one of my children, they all are so special and important in their own distinct way. This whole past week i have been watching my children closer (not in a paranoid way but instead a get to know you better type of way) and hugging them tighter. Laughing at their little funny quirks and admiring the little daily things they do each day.

I pray for love and peace for these two families I've never met, and I thank them for the reality check we all need once in a while to remember how fragile life can be. I also am so grateful for the Gospel that the families also share, to know where those precious girls are and to know of the great mercy and love of Christ and our Father in Heaven that is also shown each and every day.

These are My kids!