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Zoe.......

After 11 hours, I decided that Zoe may not want to come out because it is so cold out. So I had the heat running in the car and the garage door open and she finally decided she was hungry and come out! I was so mad at her by this time but I was so happy to see her!

I have learned my lesson, she is never going for a car ride unless she is zipped up in her pouch! I do not want a repeat of that! I was terrified for my poor baby! I was exhausted after the whole ordeal.

Does anyone know how I can get all of the plastic pieces of my car's dashboard put back together again.......?

Baby Sugar Gliders

So Brent and I were in the mall window shopping and we ended up coming home with two baby Sugar Gliders. They are such neat little creatures! There are the number one recomended pet for persons with disabilities so Brent and I were very excited about taking our little "sugarbabies" home and bonding with them.

At about 8 weeks and 1 ounce, they were very afraid of us at first. Brent's baby, Gizmo, has adapted pretty well. Letting us hold him and play with him. While my baby, Zoe, is a lot more cautious and scared of everything, especially when a giant hand comes to scoop her up!

So we have been getting daily emails about how to bond with our babies and all of the proper care that they need. Todays email was about taking your baby out of its pouch and putting it in a pocket from one of the articles of our clothing. So I did. I put Zoe in the pocket of my hoodie and set out to run errands before work. As I was parking to run my second errand for the day suddenly I realized Zoe was no longer in my pocket, but on my knee! I quickly parked and reached for her, but as I did, she leaped onto the floorboard and lunged behind the gas petal and up into the underneath of the dashboard!! I panick!

I jumped out of my car and dropped to my knees trying to find her. The further up I reached for her the further in she ran. I cry. My poor baby is scared out of her mind in the mechanics of my car!

Well I happened to be at the South Georgia Medical center to visit a friend, and had no tools on hand to dismantle my car. Seeing my hood up looking for any way Zoe could have gotten through to the engine; a man and his sister approach with jumper cables to give me a jump. I sobbed out that I had lost my baby in the dash board and got some strange looks before I collected myself and restated... My baby sugar glider was lost, not my baby!

The man offered to help me find her, and for the next 2 hours we tore apart my car but to no prevail, she is still lost in my car and it has been 11 hours. I put all of her favorite treats and her beloved pouch on the floorboard where she can see them. It is getting very cold out tonight so I left the garage door open and cranked up the heat in the car, hoping that she will warm up and wander out of her hiding place to find a snack. My poor baby..........

Thoughts.......

So today I was thinking about what the future holds.... this can be a very dangerous thing to do! I try not to make expectations of anything, because chances are they will not come true and I am setting myself up for disappointment. But like it or not, I am a constant expectaion-maker. But as I searched my mind about my future, I realized that my expectations didn't run very deep, they are mostly created to impact my very-near future, like weeks or maybe even months if I count the big events.
Most of you know that I am planning on marrying The Love of My Life this April. And you also know that Brent has SMA. Sometimes my future for him scares me.... scares me cold.... But I know that I love him with all that I am and I would not give up one day of loving him anyother way than the way that God made him. Having said all of that, I cannot help but think of some of the uncertainties of my future.....OUR future.
Our relstionship has never carried the "traditional roles" that usually apply. And we have had to be creative with how we do things, but there is so much that remains grey. I know that he loves me and I him, that we can accomplish anythng because God is our Commander in Chief.
Will we ever be able to rise above our current financial state? Will we ever be able to expand our family and have children? If we do, will they have SMA too? Am I strong enough to handle that?
Well we know for sure that Brent has the SMA gene (duh) I just need to get tested to see if I am a carrier and we can take it from there (lets put the horse back in fromt of the buggy).
Dear Lord, light my path and the way you want me to go, still my mind and comfort my thoughts. Strengthen my faith & trust in You in all of the areas of my life.

My Very First Blog Ever!

I am actually only creating this Blog so that I can have a valid vote on my sister's Photo Competition. But maybe I will actually enjoy blogging. We will see. Just do not get too disappointed if I never add another blog. Ha ha!