Andrew sitting on the tray on the airplane.
Andrew listening to daddy's ipod..can you believe he sat still and did this???
So our day started at 4:00 am getting ready for our trip to Ohio. We got Andrew up at about 5:30 am. And on our 7 am flight on my gosh...he was so amazingly well. He was giggling constantly at the people, the TV, and at everything he could. He is so adorably cute i cant stand it.
Then the sad part came! We arrived in Denver for our layover & handed him over to Tami for a few days. Had it not been for the peaceful spirit i prayed for I don't think i could have done it. The night before we left i didn't sleep at all. My head was going non-stop about leaving Andrew. i was worried, wondering how he would do, afraid to be without him, wondering if anyone could love him as much as i could to care or him for so many days, and the thoughts went on and on. When we woke up early in the am getting ready to get on the plane Franco said, i don't want to leave Andrew. Ok i thought, i am going to ask Heavenly Father if it is ok with him if we leave Andrew. I immediately knelt down and prayed. I told Heavenly Father that we were planning on leaving Andrew and if it was ok with Him i asked if he could please let me know. I immediately felt this feeling of peace come over me. All my doubts, worries, & sad thoughts went away. I felt amazingly wonderful about it. So, i got up and said, "Franco, if you are telling me as the patriarch of the home that you don't feel good about Andrew staying in Denver let me know, but if it is just your own feelings of fear then I am sorry but Andrew will be ok." To make a long story short we left Andrew in Denver and Franco did not talk to me from the minute we left our house in Utah until we were driving here in Ohio. When we handed Andrew over i could tell Franco's heart broke. Once back inside the airport without Andrew Franco's emotions took over and his eyes were constantly watering up the whole flight. So, let me bare my testimony at this point about the power of prayer and the feelings of the spirit that comforts our life. later that night franco asked me why i show no emotion about leaving Andrew. I made sure he knew how much i loved my son..and if it was hard on anyone to leave a kid i think it is the mother, but i trust in the Lord that we did the right thing for the sake of Franco's other son who we were going to see.
Anyway, we met Samuel and Franco's ex-wife Renee for dinner. I think as soon as Franco was concentrating on Samuel his sadness and understanding about why it was important for Samuel to have Franco's full attention came into play.
It was wonderful to finally meet the son Franco always talked about. After dinner we all went for ice-cream and Franco and Samuel enjoyed each other it was cute! i am glad we came, and Thank you Tami for taking care of my little Angel while we are away.
3 comments:
ahhh you are a brave brave woman! Tami is the only person I would leave Gavin with and even then I don't think I could hand him over.Glad you have so much faith or this trip would be horrible!And wow andrew for being so good on the plane, definitely another answered prayer.The ipod thing is so cute.
Oh man, I feel for you!! I have a hard time when someone else watches Hailee for a few hours. I can't imagine leaving for a few days, although I knew you sister was going to watch him and thought that "oh that would be great to have a few days alone", I know when it comes down to it, it would be so difficult and you won't want to put Andrew down for a few days!!! Oh, your house is great!!!! We used it for a party:)
It's so hard to leave kids overnight, but seriously, I think it's a totally needed break! Andrew is such a good little boy!! And what a great mommy!!!
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