Moving (purely in a spiritual sense)

Hello everybodies! Well what a very tiring and busy day! Lew had such a good sleep last night, not much twitching at all, perhaps the keppra is starting to work. Also, Lew is starting to verbalise again - he sounds like a new baby who is just finding its voice - gurgles and sounds as he tries out moving his mouth around. Its wonderful, it feels like he's 'starting over' if that makes sense. Well, we woke at 9.15am and so it was a mad panic to be ready to get to church on time! I got Lew and I dressed, left a note for Samuel who was still zonked in bed (!) and we managed to set off around 9.50am. I was incredibly impressed that I managed to find Bottesford Baptist Church again so quickly, its only our second visit!! And we arrived at around 10.15am, in plenty of time for the 10.30am start! Yolanda, Stephen, Naomi, Joshua and Joel arrived not long after and we went in for the service. It was so great, we sang christmas carols, had some lovely readings, and it is such a totally awesome atmosphere there, I was moved in many different ways. Being there gave me the strength to look inside myself which was scary; I felt so very uplifted and greatly moved by the love and affection and hope I felt in the room. The pastor is the probably the most wonderful man I have ever met, he is so happy and confident and hopeful and so full of joy and belief and faith and .. well he's just great. Thank goodness he's on the side of the goodies, thats all I can say! Lew loved the story of Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas present, complete with actions, as did all the children, particularly Joel I am sure! We had a wonderful lunch with Yolanda and Stephen and children (and arrgghhhh cant remember his name .. David?) after the service - everybody had brought along some food and we had a wonderful buffet! Lew enjoyed making eyes and blowing kisses at the ladies, especially Yolanda!! Watch out Stephen! Now I have to do a special mention for a very special young lady who will be 10 years old on Monday ... (double figures - gosh her mom must be ANCIENT!!). Naomi will be 10 tomorrow so we hope you have the best day Naomi! And Joshua, have a great school christmas party! Synjj (stephen, yolanda, naomi, joshua, joel!) also gave us some lovely christmas gifts and a card (love the NTM calendar, thank you so much!) and also some cards from their friends and colleagues at New Tribes Mission in Grimsby. We were particularly touched by the card from Samuel which also had a letter in it to Lewis. I am hoping to write personal thank yous to each of them very soon, especially to Samuel who is 10 years old and who's parents must be INCREDIBLY proud of him! The drive home was very pleasant - multimap took us the pleasant residential route, rather than being stuck on motorway most of the journey - and I did quite well reversing my directions so that left was right and right was left ... hmmmm ! When we arrived home, James took Lewis to see the new football stadium (they had an open day) and I sorted out all my photographs on the laptop as there are so many that were junk and needed deleting or filing. So I've now managed to put together a CD for Dr Mordekar (Lew's neurologist) so that next time he 'presents' Lewis to his colleagues at a conference, he can have some photographic and video evidence to back it up! I think the shock of seeing the changes in Lewis in the past 8 months gives everybody who sees it a jolt. Let's hope someone out there has a miracle cure for our little boy! But in the meantime, thank you to all who have held Lewis in their prayers and for those who maybe dont pray, but still hold Lewis close to them and wish and hope for some good news for us all. So Leona won X-Factor ... that girl is going to be soooo huge, she is amazing and I am so glad she has won. And Strictly Come Dancing .. now I thought that was between Emma and Mark. I forgot about Matt! So Emma is out (cant believe it!!! as I thought she would win) but Mark surely will win as he is truly a natural!!! So how many days now until Christmas Day? 17th, but thats today so it doesnt count! 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th - 7 days!! Cos you dont count Christmas Day!!! 7 days ... sounds like The Ring haha! You know the problem with this blog thing is forgetting stuff. And if you forget stuff, its bound to upset someone, so I have to wrack my brains to think of anything I might have forgotten! And I have forgotten two very important things! This last week, Lewis has received 2 packages in the post! The first was from Aunty Tania, Uncle Nathan, Daisy and Millie and it was some christmas presents which have gone under the tree! The second was a huge package from Reuben and Louis. Reuben is a fellow postpal and he and his brother sent through for Lewis a huge box of brightly wrapped christmas presents for Lew to have on Christmas Day! The box was a gift in itself - it was covered in fabulous stickers which we have kept as Lew LURVS stickers! Inside were lots of pressies, one of which was losing its wrapping so Lewis opened this one - a gorgeous cuddly giraffe. As Lew's favourite film at present is Madagascar, we have named he giraffe Melman and he comes everywhere with us!! He did miss church today but he sat in the car! If you havent already, please do check out the link for postpals (see useful links below) and please do think about emailing a pal, sending a postcard or a letter, or a gift. It means so very much to the children on the site, and to their families, to know that someone somewhere who may not know your child personally thinks enough of them that they would spend some time writing or choosing a gift - I know because having received Lewis' gifts and letters from Reuben and Louis, well it was just so wonderful, and we hope to return the happiness very soon, especially as it is Reuben's birthday on Saturday! Tomorrow Lewis' nursery are having their annual nativity so I will be taking Lewis along to sing with his friends! I will hope to post some photos tomorrow evening! So to coin a phrase .... merry christmas to all and to all a good night (although I think I'm supposed to say that on Christmas Eve ... but ho hum whats a week between friends, eh?!)