A dream come true...

THEY FINALLY MADE IT!!! (After D was ill with Leukaemia, Eric started praying every night that "Daddy would get better so we could go on a train to the city..." then the dream got bigger & the Aquarium, Monorail & Centerpoint Tower were added.)

 SO happy for them both that on Eric's 5th birthday they were able to make that memory together...

...sometimes dreams do come true...but it still makes me teary to think that some nights I used to wonder if it ever would...

At the dinner table tonight Eric told us that he loves his family & he loves himself too. What a great outlook for life - if only we could keep that positive spirit into adulthood...I guess the cares of life can crowd out the important things sometimes. Cancer, death, hardships & just the day to day pressing forward can make us lose that sort of attitude...but how wonderful to be reminded by Eric tonight that love & family - the simple act of sitting together to eat a meal - is so special! (Not to make light of the hardships of life of course, especially as one who has been through many of those hard times. Sometimes you can hardly put one foot in front of the other I know...yet to be loved...& know it & be secure in it - what wonderful satisfaction we can have in that!)