We need to appreciate want we have!

Today I'm thankful for...
Watching the boys interact with their new sister
Lulu feeling better
Being grateful for all that I have
Living in the wonderful place we call Reno

I'm reading "The Last Lecture" by Randyl Pausch. (he is the Computer
Science professor who died of Pancreatic cancer last year) I'm not
reading it for the dying part, we all know how it ends, but I wanted to understand his appeciation of what he had accomplished during his 46   years.  As he calls it "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"  Reading 

this helps me to see that  life shouldn't be a pity party, there's always
someone who has to deal with far more difficult life issues then yourself! 
Some of us see life alteration issues as intolerable; others as just part of
life and you find ways to make the best out of everything. Others look
at these life events as our given challenge and a learning experience?
I think this exactly how Lulu and I look at life! We will face many more   challenges and the learning never stops!  Lourdes moved to the green room today (this is the room they move the   babies to when they are more stable). The staff affectionately call   this room "The grower and feeder room".  Now She eating from a bottle   2X a day (sometimes she'll eat up to 25 cc in the bottle through a   nipple). She still needs a cannula to keep her oxygen requirements up.    Tonight I'm feeding her the evening bottle, but she's tired and only   ate 15 cc. I'm just exciting that she eating from a nipples bottle.    No word on how long until she will be home with her brothers?  As I   leave tonight, I'm wishing her a restful night, and I say a prayer for   her for strongth and growth.  She was fussing, and crying as I said my   goodbys to the night staff.  I knew that I wanted to be back early   tomorrow morning to she how my little girl did her first night in the   green room?  Lulu doing well inspite the fact her has drugs poisening her body. She   says that the worse part now is not having hair, but she is getting   more used to the wig.  At home she wears a head cover, and I've even   caught her with a naked head a time or two.  She's even mentioned
that she's looking forward to seeing your sister and niece in SF on
Wednesday. Hopefully, she'll have a tolerable chemotherapy visit
to UCSF?