Yellow Wednesdays, Operation Love, Pudge Rodriguez & FI8HT

A little bit of everything today: 

Find a Yellow shirt to wear for #yellowWednesdays and #childhoodcancerawareness! Help us and join us in bringing as much as awareness for children as #pink for #breastcancerawareness! Be ready to use the hashtags so we can see your photos of YELLOW! 

Operation Love has a new drive going! May 5-9 drop off your small items at Celina HS! Many students are helping with this drive so we can take more care bags to caregivers at Children's Hospital and Cook's Children's! For more info visit our page: Operation Love 

Jace and Pudge Rodriguez

Jace had a busy day yesterday! He was able to go to the Frisco Roughrider's game and hang out with Pudge Rodriguez! Pudge and the RR were awesome! A big thanks to Sherry Hale for getting us out there and to Pudge, the RR's and Dawn Nuefeld for being amazing during Jace's time as honorary hero for Silver Dollar at the Ranch. The event is May 17th! Please visit their website to purchase tickets and join us for a night of fun and giving! 

Jace, Pudge, Rough Riders, Dawn

Jace, Tisha, Dawn

Lastly, Jace is the weekly warrior of FI8HT, an amazing company bringing awareness to those around them! We happened to find Fi8HT on Etsy and ordered Jace a "Little Fighter" shirt. He loved it so much and it reflected how we felt about his journey. Now they are featuring a weekly warrior and that warrior gets to pick a charity of their choice! For every order that comes in this week, $7 will go to our favorite organization, Peach's Neet Feet. Please visit their website and order for those little fighters you know (cancer, autism, diabetes): www.fi8ht.com

Big love and thanks for ALL of your support out there! Together we will find a cure and create awareness so that no one can look away! 

Worry --Joy

5:00 AM - I woke up overwhelmed with worry. I couldn't go back to sleep. 
5:30 AM - After 30 minutes of talking to God and repeating scripture in my head, I snuggled up to Jason and just cried, then we prayed together. 
6:00 AM- I decided to just simply ask for prayer on FB and twitter. 

Wednesdays are always big days for us. It use to be every Wednesday. Now it's just a few Wednesdays a month. They DO become routine in our minds, but actually going through them is a different story. I mentally start preparing the day before which makes it hard to concentrate on anything else.

There's nothing routine about your child having to have chemo, a lumbar puncture, or stay in a clinic for most of the day. 

I DO worry about a multitude of things, but usually only for a millisecond until I redirect my thought process. 

This morning was different. I knew last night that anxieties were high around our house. They always are when Jace goes in for a big day, even in maintenance. My instinct was to let Avery miss school and go with us. I had no idea why. 

This morning was different. I don't wake up often with such heavy worry surrounding me, but it was engulfing me so that I woke up because of it. 

SO I stopped and sent out this specific prayer request:

Specific prayer for Jason & I today: for the worries we have (finances, girls, jobs, this day with Jace) to be overtaken by complete faith and trust. This struggle is real and I have no doubt we are being molded for something else, but YOUR prayers and HIS grace sustain us and hold us up. #gratitude

By 6:30, I began feeling better and feeling like I could get up and tackle whatever was in store. We did let Avery miss school and go with us. She has a spirit that calms Jace and makes him do things with more ease - like putting on numbing cream on the places that will be "poked" or going back to the "sleepy room." She is such a warrior herself because the things we did today, however "routine," are still difficult to just watch from the sidelines. She learned what a lumbar puncture is and why we do them and how cancer cells like to "hide" out around the spinal cord. 

That alone could keep me in a place of worry.

BUT

Just like He always has, God took our worries and transformed them into JOY. 

A great friend dropped off lunch for us after her bible study. 

We got to see our Children's Legacy family - ALL of them: nurses, drs, families, patients!

We laughed A LOT today. 

We had some divine appointments that we know God had all planned out. 

We had Operation Love bags delivered to Dallas today! 

We were contacted by some amazing people for some small, yet amazing opportunities. 

Those opportunities are just reminders to us that God has a MUCH bigger plan for us than we have for ourselves. 

MANY, MANY of you are praying for us and lifting our family up. 

We decided to try to start a BIG movement called #yellowWednesdays for #childhoodcancerawareness. (we hope you will join us to support all the families affected!)

Pete Delkus and John McCaa  (WFAA8) RT our tweet about #yellowWednesdays! 

We had a carpet picnic dinner and watched The Middle (our favorite family show). 

Pete Delkus briefly talked about Jace and our family during the 5 pm news on WFAA. (we missed it) 

We heard that the last line of that broadcast was "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!" 

This morning I woke up with overwhelming worry. 

Tonight, I sign off and go to bed with overwhelming joy.

Friends supporting Super Jace!
(including Jody Dean, Pete Delkus, John McCaa)

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