Christmas Eve is Upon Us!!!

If you notice a little number to the right of this post, I added some code to track visitors to the site. 30 unique visitors yesterday and 19 so far today. And I have been slack posting new info, but its not completely due to laziness. We are enjoying time at home with Madelyn, something just a few short days ago we didn't think would be possible. Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ.

I have also changed the settings by which you leave comments. You no longer have to sign up with Google to leave a comment. You can leave an anonymous comment, but please leave something to identify yourself so we know who has been by.

Madelyn is pretty happy. She has had a little trouble getting back into the routine we worked so hard on. Friday night she was up 4 times and pretty unhappy when she was awake. She slept most of the day of surgery, so this is kind of expected. Nothing we can't handle though, and far and away better than sitting in a cold hospital room watching her vital signs.

We went out yesterday for a few hours of shopping. We avoided the crazy areas (Sandhills, Columbia Place, HARBISON) and ventured to Camden. I am still in shock that Sheila left her yesterday, but uncle Ronnie and aunt Liz did a great job.

The retail part of Christmas has been largely forgotten this year, which in itself is a blessing. Through all of the stuff we've gone through recently, we should come out of this Christmas in better shape than usual. The doctors encourage us to be hopeful that this disease will go into spontaneous remission because everything looks so good. We've spent less money than we usually would during this time. We didn't have time to do anything but concentrate on Madelyn. All things considered, this is the best Christmas ever.

Today we are getting ready for Santa. We'll most likely go to Christmas Mass tomorrow. Thank you for your continued support through prayer, phone calls, and an abundance of well wishing cards. We'll try to keep things up to date. Until we get the results of the tumor biopsy back (projected for the 1st week in January) most of our posts will be about Madelyn and her development. She is close to rolling over and seems unaffected by the surgical wound on her belly.

Thank you for stopping by. We'll post more again tomorrow.

With our sincere wishes for a truly blessed holiday season,
The Bell Family