The Polson Family Adventure: Lily's birthday

Monday, May 25, 2009

Lily's birthday

This past Saturday was Lily's birthday and her party. It is SOOOO hard to believe that we have a SIX year old child. Man, has time flown!!! She has been beyond excited about this party for MANY days. See anguished over and spent hours discussing with us who to invite, what to do etc. All the details of the part were planned out well in advance. She is so funny. We have proved that you don't have to have all the "stuff" to have a fun party. She had a BLAST and so did her "friends" that came. The theme was of course, "Princess." They colored princess pictures, decorated princess crowns, and did whatever else little princess' do.

The day started out with breakfast of her choice (blueberry muffins) and the rest of the day was consumed with party set up, celebration and then clean-up.

Probably the most special part of the whole thing was that Tanika, one of our special needs friends, got to come. When Lily and I went to invite her, her eyes lit up SO MUCH and she immediately asked her mom if she could go. We saw her a few times in between then and when we picked her up for the party and she would ask me how many days until "Lily's birthday." This was the first birthday party she had ever been to!!! She LOVED it. Even though she could not run around with the rest of the kids, she loved every minute watching them. Marcella, Tanika's mom also got to come which was very important to her. In 8 months, I have never known her to leave her house, so she really appreciated the adult socialization.

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Betty Hodge said...: I saw these pics on Hannahs facebook. They are all precious! Lily looks so much older!

I was thinking too...while looking @ the photos that I bet she had a wonderful BDAY W/O having to spend hundreds of dollars on a party and gifts!! We have scaled down bday parties some each year but this really makes me want to scale down SO much more!!; May 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM

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For those of you who are not familiar with our family's life, let me quickly catch you up. Hannah and I have been married for 8 wonderful years. We met as teenagers and quickly became best friends. Love blossomed and the rest is history. We both had plans on entering nursing as a profession and dreamed of medical missions prior to us even knowing each other. I finished my undergraduate work just days before we were married in December 2001 and Hannah finished the following May. We both worked as RN's at the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children. We had plans on making the BIG BUCKS as travel nurses before starting our "family" but God had other plans. For on May 23, 2003, our beautiful Lilyan Rain (we call her Lily) was born. She absolutely changed our life.

During all this we were very active in a growing local church (Restoration Church), where we led a cell group and I led our worship team. Life moved on and things were good. I felt that I needed to further my education, but was unsure how we would balance family, church, work, grad school. Plus, we were very interested in adding a new little one to our family, so we decided that I would entered Graduate school part time. And on July 13, 2005, God blessed us again with our angel Aidan Nathanael.

Despite our wonderful life, in a home that we loved, great family and friends, a good supportive church, good jobs etc., we began to feel God pulling us away, changing our hearts, and still felt the He was telling us that we should pursue the dream of medical missions. So we continued to pray, and we started to plan. I finished graduate school in May of 2007 as a Family Nurse Practitioner and quickly started a job at a local primary care clinic. The strong pull of God to foreign soil persisted, and even strengthened over the next few months of 2007. We battled doubt, fears. We particularly battled leaving a church family and worship team that we had given so much of our life to. We learned some tough lessons about following the move of God on our heart, even if it meant leaving the "familiar"ities of life. This was a very hard time for us. I liken it to the desert with no sign of green or water. After much prayer, talk and tears, we decided to "step out of the boat". In early 2008, we notified the church and my job that we were leaving. "Tearing ourselves away" from the church was one of the hardest things we have ever done. At times it felt like it would easier to rip my own heart out but God is faithful and He gave us a peace that we had not experienced before. Pursuing the dream of God placed in our heart most definitely includes medical missions, but we also know God has even greater plans for us IF we will follow His voice.

Some amazing things have happened since. We sold our house within 7 days of it being on the market (unbelievable in the current housing market). God has opened up so many doors to opportunities for medical missions. I wish I could say that it all has been easy but I can't. But we are trusting God to make our paths straight.

One thing I can say... life in the past months has been anything but normal. Some of it has been exciting, some hard, some even really painful, but all good in the light of God's grace.

We look forward to sharing our life with you here. Please keep us in your prayers.

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Monday, May 25, 2009

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