*~* What do I do when someone is hurting? *~*

I'm a fixer, by nature. And I can't fix it. It's not my job. I'm struggling with this today...it's beautiful today, and yet I have a heavyness on my heart, that just doesn't seem to ease with time, but only deepens...

What do I say? How do I make things better? Should I stay, or should I go? Today just seems to not be an easy one...

perhaps I need to just take a step back, and let The Lord step in?

**Such A Time As This...**

"Oh...happy days are here again..."

I so do love that song! I have been away from my blog for far to long, and I am so sorry to say, that it's been a very rough start to the New Year for my family...lots and lots of sickness...which has really taken so much of my time up between classes!

First, I got very sick, on Christmas of all days...no fun...then I was sick through New Years, and even my BIRTHDAY!!!

Yuck...then, I started feeling better, and my sweet Lovin' Spoonful, my precious boy...he got very sick, and so between hospital and doctor visits with him, me getting sick (again) and then my poor mom got knocked down with Pneumonia, it has been a rough gig for us...all I can say now is, I need some chocolate!

These pictures I took on my phone when we finally, after 6 hours got a room in the E.R...little did we know we had several more to wait til we were free to go home!

This one is so cute...he's feeling much better, and he loves to make anything he can turn in to a hat! Such talent, already!

I had so many pictures, and things I wanted to post for the holidays...but it seemed to just fly by! I wonder....if I might still be able to post a few even though its not really Christmas anymore? For many, it is still very white outside...perhaps I shall...

And I just have to add this...tonight I did it...I sat down and watched a few minutes of American Idol, between Levi runnin' around and me trying to catch my Master of Disguise!

And there was a guy on there from Texas who got a ticket to Hollywood...but there was more to the story.

His family was with him, and he told a story of how his mom had been diagnosed 4 years ago with Breast Cancer. She was there with him, and was healthy, and you could just tell they had a special bond, that nothing could ever change, and she was sooooo proud of him, and she even wore a picture pin on her blouse of him, in his football uniform, and I just loved it...I can't wait to be that momma!! Is that corny? I suppose it may not even matter!

When he came out of those doors, holding that ticket, she started to cry...and he held on to her so tight, it was a great moment for the family, but you could just see that it was their moment in a special way...how precious for a son to love his momma that way...

I can only hope for as much!