Simeon is One!

 How can one baby bring so much joy, love and thankfulness? 

We were given a wonderful gift a year ago

It's been a long year, and yet, here it is

Simeon is one!

 He has moments of happiness and moments of sadness, 

It's so pitiful, seeing your baby so sad, especially on his birthday

 We got him this motorcycle, and it brought some smiles this morning

it also brought some temper tantrums (see background)

(click on pictures to see them better)

It's so hard when you are 3 and your little brother gets cool toys!

 We look back to the day he was born and the changes we've gone through

including his birth stay, we've been in the hospital 5 times this past year

Yet, we are so blessed, we are home,

 he is healing

 and we are done for a few months with surgeries

 Happy birthday my sweet Sims

God bless you and fill you with His blessings and graces!

This video brings tears to my eyes,

It was taken today and shows how life is going healing after surgery

but

 it is a great synopsis of our past year,

filled with happiness and trials 

our "Joyful Mysteries" as Dominic's mama has perfectly worded it

(please keep praying for him)

The Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary are:

The Annunciation

Mary, saying yes, to joy and sorrow, the questions, the fear, the excitement

The Visitation

Mary visiting and helping Elizabeth, making a long journey while pregnant

The Birth of Our Lord

Great Joy, and Great sorrow, probably of the unknown, knowing He was to save the world,

but all the questions that must have troubled Mary, yet she trusted.

The Presentation
Luke Chapter 2 

(and who Simeon was named after)

Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.
This man was righteous and devout,
awaiting the consolation of Israel,
and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit
that he should not see death
before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.
He came in the Spirit into the temple;
and when the parents brought in the child Jesus
to perform the custom of the law in regard to him,
he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying:

“Now, Master, you may let your servant go
in peace, according to your word,
for my eyes have seen your salvation,
which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples:
a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and glory for your people Israel.”

The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him;
and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,
“Behold, this child is destined
for the fall and rise of many in Israel,
and to be a sign that will be contradicted
—and you yourself a sword will pierce—
so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

Losing God, such sadness for Joseph and Mary as they searched for 3 days,

I cannot even imagine losing my child, let alone, God!

And the Joy they felt when finding Him teaching in his Father's house

See?

 Joyful Mysteries

I Love you Sweet Sims!!

God bless you!