Today is 4 days after surgery and 1 day before Ella turns 6 months. Ella has been doing really good since surgery, she has more energy than she has ever had. One thing that Ella is still not over coming is eating. She is still really low on her feeding. I talked to the cardiologist and she said that it may just take a week to get her back to normal. If she does not get her strength up and start eating better in a week, we will have to return to the doctor and have her checked. It may be that she has become so use to eating less that it has turned into more of a habit. Which we would have to figure out how to get her out of it. Lately she has become more and more excited about playing with toys. She doesnt have many, but with what she has she gets bored easily if she doesnt have something to keep her occupied. We are still having trouble with her eating solids, rice cereal. She wont have anything to do with it. But she is very interested in what we are eating, so we must be getting close.
Before I had Ella and before we started with the surgeries I didnt want to believe that there was good people or I should say a good community of people out there. When Ella had her brain surgery I felt all alone. As I sat in a waiting room by myself with no employees in it on a Saturday morning. I thought to myself what happened to all the good in people. I remember working at my last job and seeing all the help employees would offer for other employees that were going through something similar as I. But I was sitting their all alone and feeling like I was not as important as other moms.
Things have changed so much since I met my two best friends Jamie and Natalie. I started going to a church called SMCC (South Mountain Community Church). I could immediately feel a vibe in my heart of love and compassion . I have never been around a group of people that show that they care about each other.
One of my friends was/is going through a rough patch, and so I started thinking of ways I could help her family for Christmas. I decided to open up a group on facebook called Angel's of West Jordan. In this group I invited others to join around the area to help this family out and give this family a Christmas. I received such a big response I decided that I would ask my two friends to help me with the sight and help more families. We ended up being able to donate to 10 family's that are in need. We have had so many people sending in donations. The biggest of donators is from a paint ball team called Feel the paint. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Feel-the-Paint/108874952483623?ref=ts&fref=ts We have been working with a very sweet guy, I would rather not give his name out unless he feels its ok. This group has also supplied 4 baskets of items to show my 3 friends and I that they appreciate all we did for those family's. So I want to personally Thank him and everyone that donated to our Angel Families. I am so excited to find out how happy he children are on Christmas after they unwrap their gifts.
I also want to send a Thank you to the family that nominated my family to the Sub For Santa this year with Granite School District. I am unsure who nominated us, but I am very grateful for the generosity and love that has been shown to my family in such a hard difficult few months. We were unsure if we would have been able to have a Christmas this year, but with a little help from the community we are going to be fine. The one thing that feels my heart up and brings those joyful tears to my face is all the help we have received.
We also have a surprise visit tomorrow that Matt and I can not wait to see the children's faces. We have had someone donate their time and love to our family. I will not post about this until it happens, and I can have a picture of the event that takes place. But this person knows who he is and you and everyone has opened our hearts up and brought my family such strength and love.
Thank you ALL for everything you have given us and all the love, prayers. From our family to yours we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas.
Please come back for an update tomorrow on a surprise visit to Ella. :)
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