If they can just make it to their first Christmas.....

Less than 5 months ago I wrote a section on this blog call Situation Critical. At that point I was asking doctors about percentages of survival, and despite seeing desperation in my eyes they could not over extend their prognosis.

While sitting at my wife's bedside and watching the doctors operate on my children, I was planning small milestones which in my mind would increase those percentages. One of those milestones I thought about in my darkest hours was 'if they can just make it to their first Christmas...'.

As children tend to do, all of my kids have surpassed my hopes and are cruising through their first Christmas without problem. Every day brings new challenges, but none of them health related and I'll take every bit of fussiness, malcontent, and mischief they can dish out as long as they stay well.