Our Chance

   So this evening I took my oldest son to Abilene for his birthday. He turned sixteen today!! That is insane!! I cannot believe how big he is and how fast time has flown. I swear they just laid this baby boy in my arms. He was so beat up! I was in labor for 14 hr's and he was stuck in the birth canal for 3 hrs. He had a cut across his forehead and one black eye. He had bruises over his face and head, and because they attempted to use the vacuum he also had the cone head. Chance was the skinniest baby I had ever seen. He weighed 8lb 9oz but he was 22 3/4 inches long, so he was all legs and arms. And all this said I had never seen anyone or anything more beautiful!

   I have to tell you I have been blessed by this child for sixteen years. I love him with all that is within me, and I will never love him half as much as his heavenly father does! He is God's beloved child, and I think about all the years we were trying to have him and all the times we cried out to God for him and I imagine God up there just smiling saying " oh baby girl, if you only knew the little man I have planned to give you!" And thank God it was in His time and in His way.

   Chance has grown into such an awesome young man! He has had many struggles throughout his young life and God always carries him out victorious. He went tonight with his father and brother and I to dinner and was happy to be there. I am blessed! I think of kids getting cars and money and huge parties and still wanting more and more, and then there is Chance happy with what he got and time alone with his dorky family. Thank you God!

    God bless and keep you Ms. Jill