.letting you in

I got a funny email entitled "Lecture" from my sister {whom I love} recently.

It read:

Amber! Mom mentioned Aaron was sick on her newsletter. Why haven't you told us? I even just caught up on your blog and there was no mention of it there. We need to be praying for him, sweetie. You need to let us know. We love you too much to not be part of your suffering too.

Love,

Big Sister

Gwen, you are one of the best sisters I've got! Thank you for looking out for Air and I. We love and miss you immensely! Thank goodness we can always count on Mom to divulge things about us to each other in the newsletter, can't we? ;) I hope it's OK if I reply to your email via BLOG?

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Some of you may have noticed that my hub has been very sick for a very long time.

Some of you who aren't around us a lot may not have had any idea.

Some of you same people, who see him every day, still might not have had any idea that anything was wrong at all. That would be because Air is a master of disguise. He amazes me every day with this skill.

So I guess I am obliged to just tell you whats going on...

Air is a very sick boy. He's been sick for so long I can't even give you a starting point {except for maybe on his mission}; but in the last 6 months or so he has been really sick. Really sick, as in he has hardly been able to leave the house. He gets nauseous and exhausted just walking up the stairs. His body is constantly aching and trying to throw up. He can't sleep and he can't stay awake, all at the same time. And well, there are still many more health issues that I know he wouldn't want me to share...

Anyway, I have a couple of reasons for never mentioning any of this on the blog. Here they are:

Reason #UNO is that I only like to document the happy and good things that are in our lives. When I look over my blog I only really enjoy reading memories of good times. Being reminded of how blessed our lives are and how happy we are. There are so many good things to document, I can't fathom spending my time writing bad things! That would be a waste of energy and a total downer to anyone who might stop by.

Reason #TWO is because we don't like to be negative or sound like we're complaining. We are seriously so blessed and happy, but for some reason, as soon as I say any remotely sad/negative comment people automatically assume that I am unhappy.

And reason #LASTLY, I haven't blogged about it because Air simply doesn't want anyone to know and worry about him. We don't know what's wrong with him yet and are getting tests done from a few different doctors. So far we only know that he does not have sleep apnea and his "triglyceride levels are through the roof". We really just need a really good doctor who will take this a little bit more seriously. But where can we find one who is accepting new patients?? I do not know that.

So with all of these awesome reasons for not blogging about it, you might be wondering why I am now, as we speak, blogging about it?

Simply stated, there is one reason: My sister Gwen made a very good point when she said, "We need to be praying for him". So if any of you love Aaron and me as much as my sister, could you please do us a favor and pray? Pray that he can feel better and get back to living a normal life, and work and finish school. Air and I need all of the help and support and prayers that we can get right now.

And if you do pray for Aaron, we thank you very much and love you too. If you choose not to pray for Aaron.... then I don't know, we'll probably pray for you ;)