Blessed

Since being in the NICU it's opened my eyes wide! I thought that babies rarely died. You just don't hear about it. I've seen their tiny headstones at graveyards, but not ever really known any families very personally. But in the last 7.5 weeks there has been so many sweet spirits pass away. My heart breaks for the families left behind to pick up their lives and carry on. I can't imagine losing a child.
While we were I'm Houston for ablation surgery we had a very long and detailed meeting with the surgical team. In the meeting they discussed ALOT of very grim statistics. They pretty much prepared us for both the boys passing away within 24hrs post surgery. It was the longest 24 hours of my life(I'll post more details of the surgery another day). Anyway. I feel like I can almost relate to losing a child because in all reality i had to prepare myself to do so.... (i am VERY sure i still have no clue). Sorry for the ramblings. But today as I've sat here watching 3 of my neighbor babies get sicker and herd of 3 babies born 25 weeks and younger i just think of how incredibly blessed and lucky we have been. Yes Asher has been VERRY sick at times, but he's always pulled right through. The lord has a hand in all things and i see it every day. Some babies need time here, others just need long enough to get there bodies and go to the next step.... Anyway. Here is a picture of me and a few of my blessings_ i love that they have their name tags stuck on.  It cracks me up.