Update

It's been a long time since my last update. Christmas has come and gone and I'm trying to settle down into 2008.

Before Christmas Emily stared to decline so I stopped blogging to allow myself to take a breath during my only rest times. I can't live and breathe this 24 hours a day it's just to hard so I focus on the things that I can deal with and let the rest take care of itself, hope this makes sense.

Christmas was just wonderful. A special friend donated enough money to Emily's fund to allow me to create the Christmas that my children deserved. I was so down during the run up to Christmas because we're just so drained of money right now and I didn't know how I was going to pull off any kind of anything. My children would have made do with what I could provide and never said a word but I wanted so much for this year to be special because last year was just horrible. I can remember locking myself in the bathroom and sobbing after our scary Christmas lunch in the hospital last year, our world had fallen apart. I was so down about it this year and then along came a magic envelope with the promise of a real Christmas and again I sobbed but this time with relief. I'll never be able to thank Leaman enough for that gift, he really has no idea what an impact he had. Other friends also helped make Christmas special for us this year, we are so very lucky to have such amazing people in our lives. Thank you so much to all of you!

Christmas day was fun! I blubbed pathetically as the kids opened presents LOL It's hard not to be emotional! We bought Emily the present of her dreams, a cell phone! We called it as she unwrapped the present, she screamed! Tom got his dream present which was a PSP with Darth Vader on the back :)

New traditions were made this year and resolutions set. 2008 is going to be a much better year for us, a year in which we'll do what we can to give back to our community.