God is still God

hey yall! Hope everyone had a great monday. This morning my mom and I spent some time at the hospital with some very special people from church. My preachers dad had open heart surgery early this morning. Please keep him in your prayers as he recovers...his name is Gary. Thank the Lord he came through!!  God is good and he always answers his children's cries! I am glad we can pray for each other and that God hears. Then tonight I got to see my lil bro Caleb hit his FIRST out of the park home run!! i was very happy for him. He's been waiting for it to happen for a long time. :) Last thursday I got 8 SpAcErS put in my mouth...i thought it would be no big deal but I was SOO wrong :/ I have not been able to bite down on either side of my mouth since friday. I've been having to chew with my front teeth...It makes me feel like a chipmunk! LOL I am getting braces on thurday the 7th. I hope and pray it won't be too painful! My poor mouth has been through it over the past few weeks!! Please say a lil prayer for me that it won't hurt bad:)
Today at the hospital made me thankful that my family wasn't the one waiting while my daddy was having surgery. It could be later but I am thankful today it wasn't! It also made me think of the last time we sat in a waiting room on Feb 24, 2010 and the doctor told us nothing more could be done for my great Grandma. We were in NC where my mom's side of the family live. That was one of the saddest days of my life. She was such a fighter so we all believed she would pull through. She had been admitted many other times but she had always came home...that time she didn't. It is funny how one person can hold a family together...I always think of her as the "glue", she held her family together! But now that she is gone, the glue is gone too...The world is truly a different place without her here!

Right after she died I went straight to the bathroom because I did not want anyone to see my cry (i don't like to cry in front of people!! especially my family) While trying to regain control a nurse asked me if I was alright and I told her my Grandma had just died...then this total stranger gave me a hug. I don't know who that lady was but I have never forgot her compassion. It meant a lot to me! I know it was just a hug but it means so much to know someone cares at times like those! I am glad when we are falling apart there are still some people who care enough to help hold us together(even if it's a stranger!). My family had just went through a death just 2 months earlier. My "Gramme" (my daddy's mom) died very unexpectedly on Dec 16, 2009 just a few days before CHRISTmas. That was so hard because I had never lost anyone! We didn't get to see her much because my dad's side of the family lives in Oregon. But I am thankful for the memories we did get to make over the years when her and my Pops would come stay with us <3 I miss my Gramme and my grandma a lot! So we went through 2 deaths during my senior year...that was rough but I am glad God is still God no matter what!!! I don't know WHAT tomorrow holds but I am glad i do know WHO holds tomorrow!   

Sometimes I feel like what i write is soo random lol but this is what i felt like i needed to say. 
This will probably be a pretty exciting week for us!! My sister has a band concert tomorrow night (she plays trumpet...just like i did!)  then Wednesday we have ChUrCh! Then thursday it is my lil bro Caleb's 17th birthday!!! and i am getting braces that day too and my brother, Josh is off work so we will get to see him! Then on Saturday my brother's GF Bam is graduating high school! then Sunday the best day of all...is my BIRTHDAY :))) I will be turning the BIG 2-0! I am a little depressed to leave my teen years but I am kinda ready to be a lil older lol.