It’s been a couple of months since my last update and it seems like lots has happened in that time.

Jana got her new shoes and brace. She was quite thrilled with both of them. She liked the better support her new brace gives her and then on Sunday she sheared off one of the bolts! So it’s back to her old brace till we get it fixed which hopefully won’t take too long.

Jana has been going to a care center for disabled people of any age one day a week. They receive one on one care and while there do a variety of activities: singing, crafting, school work and exercise time. The other week her group and another group went to sing for one of the caregiver’s grandma. Jana had made a card for her in craft time to give her. Each week Jana eagerly looks forward to her day at the care center.

JoAnn had another MRI done and the doctor says nothing has changed, yet he did set up another appointment with another specialist..So need-less to say we are a bit worried – –  wondering, “What does our/her future hold?” JoAnn is also going back into the working world. She is a caregiver for elderly people. Right now she is on an “on call” part-time basis but after we get moved and settled in she is planning to go full-time with regular clients.

And yes, that’s the other big news and change in our future. We are buying a house! We are scheduled to have settlement the end of January. We found a smaller house in Lancaster City. So we’ve been going through and getting rid of some things, trying to simplify. When I think of myself not too make years ago, the city is one place I thought I’d never move to. It’s amazing how time and circumstances can change your plans and ideas. We are hoping to move in May after JoAnn and Justin both get home from SMBI in March. There is a little bit of work we would like to do to the house, mostly painting and putting in carpet, before we move in. I am trying to carefully plan how much I do as I still struggle with fatigue and pain a lot of the time. I also don’t do well with a lot of stress, so I try to keep reminding myself to plan and also to listen to my body and not overdo it. It once again brings the evidence so clearly to mind how much our lives have changed the last 3 years. And I keep finding bits and pieces of Jennie as I go through things; her name in her just learning-to-write cursive on a scrap of paper, her story books, etc. And I feel that familiar stab of pain, of missing her, of longing to see her smiling face and hear her giggle. I wonder what she’d say about living in the city. Yet through the pain I feel the Father’s love and care as I imagine her in His arms, in complete contentment, joy and peace as she waits for us to join her.