Camdon Update #8 Our Lubbock Weekend

Here are a few pics I took this weekend in Lubbock.

Regina and Camdon. Poor thing she's exhausted.

Camdon looking much better
Look at that blond hair, he is sleeping
Nana (my Aunt Brenda) and Camdon

Aunt "Winna" as Daylan calls Mom, LOL.

Tana (Me) and Camdon, he is so tiny. Makes your heart break that he is so sick.

Mom, Brenda and Regina in the Game Room at the Ronald McDonald House.

Ronald McDonald staff invited us to stay for dinner. A group had donated BBQ and Cobbler and it was wonderful. THANKS!!!

Kaleigh having some BBQ. YUM, she isn't quite sure what's going on with Dada, Momma and Camdon. She was NOT enthused about the drives.

Daylan and Myself at dinner. It was very good. He is so sweet and very concerned about his baby brother. He "likes road trips, they aren't scawree" LOL. He would watch out the window and say "Look I see the road trip". Too adorable.

One of the hallways in the Ronald McDonald House. There were quilts everywhere gave the place a homier feel.

This is on side of the kitchen at TRM House

The there side of the HUGE kitchen.

This is the pantry and freezers.

I forgot to take pictures at our hotel. LOL. Only me, I'm such a dweeb but how would you know? The biggest bar in town was attached to the hotel. LOL. It wasn't too bad though. We will always laugh about the fact. We drove around to the "front" and I was like "Oh dear this is a bar the hotel must have been the next buiding down there". I turned the corner and NOPE we were at the right place. There was no parking and I will always get teased. But at such a good rate, who cares, really!!!

Teresa & Katie stayed for Christmas Weekend

Christmas Afternoon with Friends

Christmas with Mom, Dad and Nanny

OK, by the goofy expression on my face you know Mom is trying to trick me again. But see I'm a spoiled brat. LOL. I asked for a Wii for Christmas and of course I got one. They had just about convinced me I wouldn't get one because Mom kept saying no one had them. She couldn't find one and she had asked around. So I know my Mom won't lie so I decided I was perhaps getting a MP3 player or guitar (cheaper). I was cool with that and then I opened what I thought was a iPod and it was a Wii controller. So I KNEW I was getting one, but my Mom wasn't finished, she kept saying is there more than that?? I was like "yeah, just a "wii" more". LOL. So I opened the last package and it was the music composer for Wii and so I was like where is the rest of it. Mom kept saying I thought that's all there was, don't you just put the game disc in the DVD player? Ok, my Mom is dumb about gaming but she ain't THAT dumb. Finally after alot of laughing and carrying on she went and go the system. I was so surprised though, they really couldn't find the basic Wii system. So my Dad found a package deal at Best Buy and my parents and my Nanny bought it for me. It was alot more than the basic deal. It had the music composer game, extra remote, extra nanchuk (however it's spelled, can't remember) and the cables to help upgrade the video aspect of the game system. I'm so blessed with such great parents. I was totally surprised at the amount of money they spent. They always go out of their way to help make the holidays special. The holiday season is a hard time of year for singles. My family was awesome this year. I also got a new ESV Bible, a wall picture for my room from Nanny, Mom and Dad also got me a Bath and Body set, some decor for my room (I'm getting ready to redo my room), AI Encore 2 for the Wii. Chantry and Tiffany got me a Wii game called My Horse and Me. LOL. I also got a digital photo keychain. That is totally awesome!!!!!

Baby Changes Everything

So maybe it's the Holiday Season or the weather or the Christmas music and decorations, or perhaps it's the fact my 3 female goats just gave birth to a total of 6 babies. LOL. Regardless something has really started something rolling around in my head.

Mary and Joseph and that whole "Christmas" story. Can you imagine? Mary being a young girl and pregnant, you know she was criticized. Can you imagine Joseph? Finding out it's true your girlfriend who you have never touched is pregnant? I know I know there was the whole angel thing, but come on, how would you feel? Sometimes God has us do things we know we have to do but people look down on us or make fun of us or tell us their opinions. You know Mary and Joseph probably dealt with some of that.

To get to a strange town and look for a place to stay. No room, sorry no room. We are full up, no room. Finally someone offered a stable??? They jumped at it as a place to stay. I wonder what it was like. Was it a cave, I've heard the story told that way. Perhaps a big nice cozy and warm barn? What if it was like the little shelters my goats are using right now...

Their shelters are what I call the "Homeless Shacks" They are thrown together things, that is the only way to put it. Warped wood and tarps to keep them dry and warm until their better housing is completed.

I wonder if there was a billy goat named Phantom but everybody called him hillbilly, he might have been antisocial. Perhaps there was a little horse named Rowdy, but he was sweet. Maybe there were chickens peeking into the manger and horses eating the hay and chickens gripping the horse out for eating the hay and a horse that kept wiping his nose on everyone and nipping at their robes.

I wonder what it was like. It all hit me in reality as I lay on the yucky, nasty ground trying to save a breech baby. I didn't care if there was goat poo under me or the remains of Lexington Noel's birth. I didn't care, I was focused and determined on saving that baby. I wonder what the ground was like where Mary was, I really doubt it was crisp and clean. I live on a farm basically, we have close to 40 animals, counting all the cats, dogs, goats, horse, rabbit, fish and a goose. I know what the ground is like, YUCK, but in every one of the goats giving birth I've plopped my behind on the ground and helped. Cleanliness is not something animals care about and in that moment in time I didn't either, believe me that jean skirt and shirt will NEVER be the same. LOL.

Mary had a BABY there. I was laying there helping Oreo and I thought, this is what Mary endured. Someone offered her a stable!!! A STABLE. Hay and smells and dirt and unpleasant stuff and Jesus was born there. Animals all peeking in a small doorway perhaps or squeezing into corners watching.

I will NEVER be able to think of the story in the same way. In a strange sort of way, I felt the yuckiness she endured, my mind goes crazy with what could have happened. I have a good imagination. In all that has happened in the last 3-4 days in some strange way I feel closer to God, I experienced, the awesome miracle called birth and the miracle of a baby that shouldn't have survived, surviving. Even though it was in the animal kingdom they are special miracles for me. Things that let me know God is out there and cares, even for a goat named Oreo, to save her baby. That is a miracle. So you see A Baby Changes Everything