The date January 21 will never be the same for us. It is the day we found out we were going to have a little girl and the day we began to mentally prepare to bury our daughter. As January approached I was already wondering what the 21st would be like this year. God was so good to us and He answered so many prayers, and we have our daughter here, full of life, but all of the feelings and emotion of that week will haunt me forever. It was actually Tim who brought it up and suggested that we celebrate that date. So after thinking about it for a while we decided that January 21st will be a day for our family to celebrate life. We are planning on doing something fun with the kids and treating it almost like a birthday celebration.
Maelyn's life is truly a miracle and a blessing and a testimony to the power of prayer. She is alive and well and thriving, and you would not even know there is anything wrong with her if you met her. Yet she is missing a major part of her heart, it is out of place in her chest and she has been through open heart surgery. But when I think about it, isn't every life a miracle? a blessing? and a testimony to the power of our awesome God? I know each of my kids are. What a better day to celebrate that than the day we were face to face with death.
Update: Pictures from our family life celebration day are on my Instagram, kikistocker, with #familylifecelebrationday2016
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