This is Isabella on her first day of Kindergarten. She was so excited! Then two weeks later she became sick again and that is when we dived into having all of the blood tests done and the barium enema. Since her last bout of this and also since she got sick in Kindergarten Isabella has cried a lot in Kindergarten and has not wanted to me to leave. This past week I finally did "the tough love" and dropped her off and left the classroom until she was done with school. This past Friday I picked her up from school and she was very happy! I asked her how her day went and she said, "Mom I cried for one minute and then I remembered Heavenly Father is always with me and I was ok." I thought she really does know and understand at the young age of 5 that she is never alone and above all that she is loved more than she can ever comprehend. This also triggered a flashback two weeks prior to my brain bleed Zachary and I sitting in the car up in Renton on our way to Lake Washington. I remember we were discussing the upcoming school year and I shared with him that I always wanted him to remember that he was never alone and that his Father in Heaven was always with him. Who would have ever thought two weeks later I would be in ICU wondering if I was going live or die, but yet having the comfort in knowing that my son was not alone on his first day of first grade, and I had shared with him that day in the car that I knew he was never alone.
