The Little Figs

Excerpts from my journal in 2006... In November 1997 I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl that we named Aubree Nicole. I felt so much love that Heavenly Father entrusted me with this little angel. Aubree was born perfectly healthy and we were thrilled to have this baby girl in our home. One of the things that her daddy said in her baby blessing was, “You will overcome and endure hardships.” I didn’t think much of that at the time, as most of us in this life have hardships of one kind or another. A few weeks before Aubree turned 2, we started noticing some strange things. Her walking became unsteady and she stopped running. Her strength in her arms seemed to be weaker, her speech became slightly slurred, and some of her small motor skills seemed to be lacking. We took her to the pediatrician wondering if she possibly had an inner-ear infection or some other ailment. When he couldn’t find anything wrong with her, he scheduled an MRI a few weeks after. I remember starting to worry th...

We have fun Easter traditions, one of which is to do the egg hunt. We have a whole plan to make egg hunting fair. We have plastic Easter eggs for each kid in their designated color. We thought we were so smart for thinking this up. Then the older kids don't find all the easy eggs that the younger kids were meant to find. Then nobody is yelling and crying because they didn't get as many. Then no one freaks out because someone started looking 10 seconds before they did. (Oh no, that has NEVER happened in our house!) Anyway, Aubree gets pink eggs, Tyler gets green, Marcus gets blue and Caleb gets yellow. What a great plan! Each kid has 23 eggs hidden this year. Wow, aren't we so smart for thinking this up? Well, my boys are all color blind to some extent. Mostly the browns, greens, and yellows look the same, and the purple and blues look the same. Apparently on Easter ALL the colors look the same. Matt and I sat in the family room watching them hunt. Every two seconds someone ...