Castle Conjoined Twins

Castle Conjoined Twins We have created this page to allow those interested to follow along with the story of our daughters

Warning: not about the twins but some of you might be interested to know what’s going on. We will continue to post here ...
01/06/2025

Warning: not about the twins but some of you might be interested to know what’s going on. We will continue to post here periodically about the twins.

It’s hard to believe that we could possibly have to write an update like this, and equally hard to find the words. Over the past month, we began to notice that our wild, sweet Judah was having a lot of irregular bruises show up on his body. After tracking them for several weeks, we became concerned enough to take him to the pediatrician. On Tuesday morning (New Year’s Eve), that pediatrician visit led to an ER visit, which led to being admitted to Children’s Hospital. Within 7 hours from the initial visit, extensive bloodwork was beginning to lead everyone to believe that this could be cancer and we were meeting with the oncology team. It felt like we were in some crazy time vortex of nightmarish proportions and our whole world turned upside down before we knew it. Nothing definitive could be determined until they did a bone marrow biopsy, but because the next day was a holiday (New Year’s Day), we had to wait around in that terrible state of fear and unknown, learning more about the potential path before us. During this time, Judah‘s blood and platelet count began to drop, requiring transfusions and antibiotics to level out his numbers to a healthy point to even do the bone marrow. On Thursday morning, they were able to successfully do the biopsy and that evening they confirmed the bad news – we found out that Judah has leukemia. Specifically, B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), one of the most common childhood leukemias and praise God, one of the most curable. The amazing oncology team sat down for two hours and laid everything out very clearly, including a two year, three month timeline of chemotherapy treatment, with a 90%+ chance of curing the cancer by the end. To say that we were absolutely and utterly overwhelmed is an understatement. The next morning (Friday), they did a surgery to get more samples from his spinal column through a lumbar puncture, gave the first dose of chemo into that area, and placed a port in his chest. Later that day, they gave the next several rounds of chemotherapy, along with another platelet transfusion. Within less than 72 hours, we went from weird bruises to beginning chemotherapy. We are hoping that if his body accepts these first treatments over the next few days and his numbers stay good, we will be discharged to go home, and will fortunately be able to do the majority of the treatments with outpatient clinic visits one day a week and treatments at home. The first eight months is the most intensive, with the last year and a half being considered maintenance chemotherapy. He will obviously have a severely fragile immune system, and will have to be readmitted for the smallest of fevers and sicknesses. However, we are so thankful that there is a road to a cure and we are thankful that we were able to get a clear diagnosis and quick path to treatment, even if it has happened so quickly that we haven’t even had time to process it.

How does one even begin to process something like this? Especially on the heels of the past few years of absolute madness with our twins. We have asked if this is a cruel joke from God. We have asked what the statistical probabilities of both of these things happening in succession are. We have asked if there has to be something wrong with our water or our house. What terrible mistake or missed lesson is causing this? There are certainly a lot of questions and not tons of answers. A lot of emotions and confusion and frustration and tons and tons of sadness.

But, we can both say in absolute confidence that whatever the divine reasoning is behind all this, we have no doubt that God is with us and that he will care for us, for Judah, and for our family during this time. We’ve already been through hell over the past several years, thrown into unfathomably difficult situations. And he’s never left us. Not for a second. We felt so far over our head so many times that we didn’t know if we would ever surface for air again, but he has always brought us through. And we have a strong confidence that he will continue to care for us and bring us through again, despite the absolute madness of this reality that we are just waking up to. We certainly won’t pretend that we that we understand any of this or are at peace with it, but we are choosing to place our anchor on Jesus and trusting him through it all.

Please pray for us and for Judah as we dive into this deep end again. Pray that he responds well to the medications and that it kills the cancer definitively and finally. Pray that all of the horrendous side effects of chemo are minimized. Pray that his sweet, unique, magnetic, lively, lovable personality that God has given him will carry him through this with a smile on his face and with tons of new friends who have fallen in love with him, and hopefully with Jesus as well. Pray that his immune system will stay strong and that our house will stay healthy. Pray for strength for me and Stephanie as we figure out how to manage this along with all of the ongoing challenges with the twins and from five kids. Pray for our marriage- for Grace and peace and deep love. Pray for our other kids’ hearts as they inevitably yet again feel as if they are put on the back burner. Pray that Jesus will become very near to Judah, our other kids, our whole family, and everyone watching this.

We are utterly amazed at the degree of support that we have already felt from our friends and family, most clearly from our brothers and sisters in Christ. You guys are AMAZING and while we certainly do not relish the idea of being so dependent on you again, we are already experiencing the true love of Christ through you. We have decided to create a page, if you would like to follow “Judah’s Journey with ALL” and pray for us. We love you all and thank you for your love to us.

12/11/2024

This day 3 years ago was not what I would describe as a primarily joyous day. Long-anticipated, hopeful, stressful, but not fun. By the time the day was done, it felt like the longest and scariest day of our lives. We wondered if we’d made a huge mistake. Our lively girls that were once happy and smiley (albeit stuck together) were now comatose and swollen, lifeless. We didn’t know if they would survive through the night. But we were so emotionally wrecked that we finally gathered ourselves and walked the 3 blocks to our hotel in the freezing cold and snow, crying the whole way. I (stephanie) listened to JJ Heller “In the Morning” and prayed it would really be better in the morning. It wasn’t much better. Each day that followed was full of small disasters and us continuing to question if we had made the best decision for our girls. But weeks passed and they slowly improved. Months passed and they greatly improved. Years have now passed and they are thriving! While it’s felt like the blink of an eye, it’s been hard fought and full of ups and downs, the overall trajectory has been up. Way up. These girls are healthy and we are so thankful to the Lord for sustaining us all every step of the way. We’re so thankful to CHOP and our team there and how they have given our girls the gift of normalcy (whatever that is🤪). We’re thankful for Children’s of Alabama and for the amazing care that’s right in our backyard. We’re thankful for family, friends, and church family who have supported us the whole way. And we’re thankful for days like today when we can look back on all that the Lord has done for us and how he continues to hold us up.

Yesterday was a big day in the Castle house! For the first time since birth both girls are tube free! 🎉🎉 Elizabeth has b...
10/19/2024

Yesterday was a big day in the Castle house! For the first time since birth both girls are tube free! 🎉🎉 Elizabeth has been gaining adequate weight and we haven’t used her tube in over 6 months so last night WE REMOVED THE GTUBE! She’s been practicing saying “bye-bye button” for a while and last night was the real deal. We’re so thankful to the Lord for two healthy, eating, and weight-gaining girls. We’ve been waiting for this day for years.

A big shout out to United Ability and our feeding therapist, Fran Frost for getting this girl eating. And to Libby’s Friends for helping us afford all the therapy. 🙂

We’d love prayers in the next few days that the hole closes on its own and we don’t need to have it surgically closed!

Wow, it’s hard to believe that so many months have flown by since our last update. Life is full and joyful and tiring an...
10/07/2024

Wow, it’s hard to believe that so many months have flown by since our last update. Life is full and joyful and tiring and busy these days! We have so much to be thankful for and a few big updates with the twins, so here are a few of the latest snapshots.

This summer was a sweet gift of a relatively low-key pace. Apart from a few travel plans and vbs/kids camps, we mostly stayed at home and spent a lot of time together as a family. It was hot and without access to a pool, so we decided to buy a big water inflatable for our yard. It was a huge hit and provided hours and days of fun for the kids and their friends. It is so sweet to see that the twins are now old enough to participate in things like this as well and all of them loved switching back-and-forth between, the sprinkler under the trampoline and this water inflatable.

Summer ended before we knew it, and we were into the busyness and changes of the fall season. The older three headed back to school, all in the same place again, now in 5th, 2nd, and 1st grades. And much to everyone’s excitement, the twins became big girls and are now going to preschool 2 days a week! It was a full court press to get them potty trained in time, but they rose to the occasion and met the deadline! They are so proud of being potty trained that they usually force everyone in the house to come see the evidence each time! 🤣 They love being big girls and going to school like their siblings. They love playing with her friends, learning their shapes and numbers and letters and colors. They are so smart and full of life and energy! They make everyone around them happy with their joy. It’s also a wonderful (although brief) break for mommy too!

One other major update involves Susannah and her scoliosis. As we had mentioned in the last update, we were seeing multiple specialists in order to determine what sort of interventions might be necessary to keep her scoliosis from worsening. After a lot of doctors visits, opinions, prayer, and deliberating, we all agreed that the right move was to put her in a half-body cast. The basic idea of the cast is that it straightens her spine to a more appropriate angle and resets the growth trajectory over the year that she is in it. The hope is that, as difficult as this process is, it will prevent major surgeries down the road that would be even worse.

This was not something that we were excited about by any means. This hard plaster cast goes on her upper body and has to stay on for a full year. It can’t get wet - so no pools, no baths, no water sports, in other words NO FUN! 😩 Every 2 to 3 months, we go back to the OR to put a new cast on, which requires intubation, anesthesia, the whole shebang. This is honestly something we dreaded, but after almost a month of having the cast, we are surviving better than we thought.

The first round of getting the cast put on was a little tricky to dial in the proper fit, but after a week, we all began to adjust. It is definitely a source of frustration for all of us and hinders some of her movements, but overall, she won’t be slowed down. She still plays and runs and jumps and tumbles, even if it is a little heartbreaking to watch her waddle around and be encumbered. We are so thankful that it is going well though, and we are hoping that it will do its work over this year. We would love your prayers for us as we navigate this process!

Elizabeth has been fully eating by mouth for many months now and seems to finally be gaining weight! We are hoping to get her G-tube (which we haven’t used for many months) out soon, which will be a big step for her! This July, we did our annual visit to CHOP and it was such a fun time for our family to see friends, family, nurses, and doctors who mean so much to our family. Though a road trip up to Philadelphia was a lot for our family of 7, it was a special time and helps to keep those special relationships and memories strong.

As always, there’s much more that we could share, but this has already gotten long. Thank you to those who keep praying for us and asking for updates, even though it’s hard to do them as often these days. We are constantly aware of how dependent we are on the Lord for our every breath . We look back in amazement at almost 3.5 years of life with these sweet girls, and we truly marvel at the Lord’s faithfulness. The days are long and often feel heavy and hard, but we are rich with blessings from the Lord, and we don’t ever want to take that for granted!

We have so many amazing updates and one big prayer request!Overall both Elizabeth and Susannah are doing amazingly! We f...
05/24/2024

We have so many amazing updates and one big prayer request!

Overall both Elizabeth and Susannah are doing amazingly! We found out in February that Elizabeth’s VSD (hole in her heart) is getting smaller and the big open heart surgery that we have been anticipating (and pushing off) is now off the table!! This is a HUGE answer to prayer and giving you that short description doesn’t do justice to communicate all the miraculous ways the Lord has healed Elizabeth’s heart and preserved her. If you’ve followed our story, you know her heart has been a concern since our earliest ultrasounds and the ways the Lord has shown up are too numerous to communicate in this facebook post. We are still in shock over this news and SO grateful to the Lord for how he has shown his power in Elizabeth’s heart.

Susannah is doing well and we are still seeing orthopedic doctors to evaluate her for scoliosis. It’s difficult to get good images of her spine since it requires her to lie still on a cold hard table for an xray. She does not like for people to mess with her and she doesn’t do well in hospitals or doctor’s offices—poor baby has been through so much! So, in order to assess her spine curvature, we need good imaging and wisdom (for us and doctors) to know what a good path going forward would be and if intervention is necessary at this point. There are some preliminary discussions of some potentially very challenging interventions that we are hoping to avoid if at all possible. We are getting multiple opinions and she will see another orthopedic doctor in July, so we’d love prayers for her and her spine.

Our biggest news and also prayer request is that Elizabeth is eating by mouth! Since Christmas she has slowly grown in her ability and desire to eat food, which is HUGE and an incredible answer to prayer. She now eats a huge variety of food, but she eats solids very slowly and is an even pickier eater than a typical picky 3 year old (one day she loves something and the next day won’t touch it!), so feeding has been challenging and something that takes up A LOT of mental energy for Dwight and myself. And even though she is eating well, she is not gaining weight. Obviously weight gain is important, especially at her age and in this critical time when we are hoping to rely fully on what she can eat by mouth without using her G-tube (and hopefully soon remove the G-tube!). We count her calories and try to give her a range of nutrition, but the numbers aren’t reflecting numbers on a scale. Maybe if any adults out there have experienced the inverse of this you know how disheartening and discouraging it can be. We are trying so hard…and it seems to be for nothing.

Please pray the Elizabeth would continue to desire food and that the calories she consumes would convert to ounces and pounds gained. We have a goal of having her G-tube out before she starts preschool in September, so please join us in praying for this step in this longgg process.

We are so thankful that life is otherwise much more manageable and stable these days. We are enjoying time as a family of 7 (!) and trying to figure out what this summer will look like, but just soaking up the joy of where we are in life right now. As always, we are so thankful for your prayers and support. You continue to be such an amazing community of love and care for us!

04/23/2024

These girls are 3 years old today!! I can’t believe that we have had them in our lives for 3 years- how can that be?! These girls are so sweet and full of life- they love their siblings, love being outside and playing, love swinging and climbing and jumping, love hugs, usually love eating (finally 🙌🏻), love parks and laughing (and screaming 😱), love their family, love Elsa, love Daniel tiger, and just love life altogether! They have taken us on a wild journey over the past 3+ years, but we could not be more thankful for them, and for all the joy that they have brought us. The Lord has been faithful beyond measure, and we celebrate them today and all of the ways that they have taught us and so many others, that the Lord is with us in the darkest moments, and he gives us hope and strength to carry on. We will work on a more thorough update very soon- thank you for all of the continued prayers! Happy birthday Susannah and Elizabeth - we love you!!

Before we dive into a cardiology update, we want to praise the Lord for the significance of yesterday. For us, December ...
12/11/2023

Before we dive into a cardiology update, we want to praise the Lord for the significance of yesterday. For us, December 10th will forever be remembered as the girls’ separation day. Two years ago, we entered into one of the hardest and scariest days of our lives. It was a necessary step that paved the path towards health and healing for the girls and for our family, but it was an unbelievably terrifying step. It ushered us into several months of what seemed like a whole new version of teetering on the verge of life and death, hope and despair. But praise the Lord that he led us through it, and continues to lead us now! We are SO thankful that two years later, these girls are healthy and separate and progressing in a million ways. They are a gift to our family and to so many others and we will always rejoice from an indescribable place of thankfulness on December 10th!

Thank you all so much for praying for Elizabeth’s cardiology appointment this past week. I wish that we could say we had miraculous news of her hole shrinking substantially, but nothing so exciting. Instead, it was quite an uneventful appointment, which is certainly not bad. Her cardiologist observed that she is very healthy and improving and growing on every level, and believed that her body seems to be balancing out all effects of the hole. Praise God! However, he didn’t note any major change in its size. The challenge is that he is very limited in what he can actually observe from a standard echocardiogram, and suggested that we do a more involved and conclusive heart catheter procedure. Elizabeth has not had one of these since shortly after separation, just about two years ago. This would give us actual numbers and clear data on the condition of her heart across multiple categories. We then would have all the information we need to figure out if we can continue to wait and pray for her hole to close or if we will need to do something more proactive sooner. We will likely do this heart catheter procedure in January or February since there is no big rush. It would involve putting her under sedation for an outpatient procedure but hopefully nothing longer if all goes well. It’s not the news we were hoping for, but we are continually stretched, and reminded to trust the Lord and his timing. Her heart is nothing short of a miracle, every step of the way. We trust him to continue to sustain it, and to lead us down the right path. We will continue to keep you updated and please keep praying!

Thanks, as always for your faithful prayers and messages!

Hey friends! I hope that everyone had a restful, joyful Thanksgiving. I know that for so many, the holidays can present ...
12/01/2023

Hey friends! I hope that everyone had a restful, joyful Thanksgiving. I know that for so many, the holidays can present a lot of mixed emotions, and even a lot of grief and heartache. We pray that whether this season brings a lot of joy, a lot of hard, or a strange mixture of both, that you will all know the hope and love that Jesus offers in the midst of that, in a very real way.

As usual, it has been way longer than we intended since we’ve given a good update. We never INTEND for them to be insufferably long, so we’ll try our best to keep it manageable (no promises! 🤣).

Overall, we are so thankful to report that the Lord has continued to lead us into a season of stability and peace as a family! We haven’t had a legit hospitalization since Susannah‘s surgery at CHOP earlier in the year, both girls are gaining weight slowly but surely, Susannah continues to (passionately) eat by mouth, there have been no major curveballs or disasters, and the other kids finally seem to be leveling out from all of the instability of the last three years. Obviously, there are many, many hard days and challenging new norms penciled in between the lines of those statements, but overall, we are thoroughly enjoying being out of “survival mode “.

The older kids are all at the same school- in kindergarten, first grade, and fourth grade, and are absolutely loving it. They’re glad not to have to change where they live or go to school or who their primary caregivers are and are thankful to have their parents at home together. Our middle daughter Emmet opens every single prayer by saying “Jesus, thank you that we are all together as a family and that no one is in the hospital”. Having the older three at school gives Stephanie a lot more margin in life and the ability to focus on caring for the twins. Which it turns out, requires all of her attention, since they are in a very sweet, but clingy phase where all they want all the time is mommy.

They have both currently receiving speech therapy and are really beginning to make progress with talking. They’re still pretty delayed, but seem to be on a good trajectory. They have graduated from physical therapy and can literally do anything that their mind is set to, including running, climbing every piece of furniture in the house in the yard, jumping off of said furniture, mimicking their wild older siblings, trying to ride scooters and bikes, trying to do somersaults and flips on the trampoline, and all of the other other things that we dreamed and prayed that they would be able to do someday.

The Lord has been very kind to us in so many ways, and we are continuing to have the eyes and perspective to see it a bit clearer every day. Sometimes we truly can’t believe what all has happened over the past three years. We are beginning to try to write it down so that we don’t forget and to document it for the girls. Who knows, maybe it will take a more organized form at some point and could even be shared with others in some way?! There are SO many untold stories of the very deep and dark lows that the Lord led us through. We want to tell those and remember his faithfulness. For ourselves, as we will continue to walk through life’s challenges, but also for others who are in their own valley of the shadow of death and need to hear good news that they aren’t alone or forgotten.

The two biggest things in front of us are things for which we would love to have your prayer right now:

First, our biggest day to day, week to week focus is trying to get Elizabeth to eat by mouth. She goes to occupational therapy for feeding weekly and has taken a much, much slower route than Susannah did. There have been prolonged periods where she really hasn’t made much progress, and has even backtracked, but when you zoom out far enough, she is still moving forward. However, something has shifted recently and she is very interested in food, and we are praying that this will be the turn of the tide for her. It has been a passive dream of ours that she will be largely eating by mouth by the end of this year, but it hasn’t looked very likely prior to the last few weeks. She has all of the skills that she needs for drinking fluids and eating purées, but has had almost no desire to do so, meaning we almost entirely have used her G-tube for her nutrition. However, a month ago, she began to desire food. She literally wants to lick every single piece of food that she can get her hands on and with a lot of pushing and prodding, she has grown in her desire to actually eat. She now seems to legitimately enjoy eating lots of yogurt and puréed bananas every day, but is having a tough time expanding her pallet. We are also beginning to work with her on chewing small solids and she is begrudgingly entertaining that process. We are hoping and praying that something will just click with her and that she will progress in leaps and bounds over the month of December. Please join us in praying that the Lord would finally allow her to become a good eater so that we can eventually get this G-tube out.

The second need for prayer is that Elisabeth has a cardiology appointment this Monday. It’s her first appointment in seven months and at her last appointment, the cardiologist shared with us that for the first time, he could actually verify that her VSD (hole in her heart) had gotten a little bit smaller. He pushed our next appointment out six months, which has turned into seven, and we are praying that at this check up, there will be a substantial decrease in size. This would give us a genuine hope that she may be able to avoid open heart surgery. We know that the Lord can do this, and it is what we have been praying for from the beginning, so please join us in pray that the Lord would provide yet another miracle in this story and in Elizabeth’s unique heart.

Well, this certainly hasn’t been a short update, so we will stop now to keep it from getting any longer! We will continue to update you as these things progress over the next few weeks. We continue to be tremendously thankful for your constant love and support and care!

As we enter the advent season, we turn our hearts and hopefulness to the coming of the Christ child, the promised one who alone can rescue us. We pray that in the midst of all of the darkness and brokenness and grief and loss in this fallen world, you will find deep and meaningful hope in knowing Jesus our Savior. He is the light that has come into the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome. We pray that he brings joy into your hearts and lives this season as well.

I feel like Halloween 2023 should have a permanent spot on here. Mac had the idea and I might have taken it a little too...
11/20/2023

I feel like Halloween 2023 should have a permanent spot on here. Mac had the idea and I might have taken it a little too far. Thanks to temu, hobby lobby, and thrift stores we pulled together a Harry Potter family costume theme to remember. And Dwight’s Dumbledore costume won us a gift card to thanks to . 🎉

It feels strange to post about myself 🙈 but I have to keep reminding myself that none of this really has to do with me. ...
09/20/2023

It feels strange to post about myself 🙈 but I have to keep reminding myself that none of this really has to do with me. We want to be faithful to share about how the Lord cared for us throughout our journey with the twins and I was honored to be asked by to share. If you are in a season of suffering, I pray that this will be a reminder to you that Jesus is with you in the midst of it all. You are not alone.
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One aspect of our journey we haven’t always been specific in sharing has been the generosity of others—friends, stranger...
09/06/2023

One aspect of our journey we haven’t always been specific in sharing has been the generosity of others—friends, strangers, YOU! We have been extraordinarily blessed to experience the embodiment of Christ through the care we have received in a myriad of amazing ways. Like over-the-top, mind-boggling, truly humbling ways.

Accepting lavish generosity and kindness is actually really hard. We don’t feel worthy of such kindness and we certainly can’t repay it. We also feel inadequate to express gratitude, so it can easily leave us feeling somewhat guilty and immobilized. We want to do something to express our deep gratitude and when nothing seems adequate, we end up doing nothing. Does anyone else have this problem?! We have to fight to remember that it’s grace. We have to fight the negative voices telling us “You’re not worthy” and “Now you have to find a way to pay it back”. Just like we have to fight the enemy telling us we’re not worthy of God’s grace. And the truth is…we’re not worthy! And that’s why it’s called grace!

A simple search online tells me the definition of grace is 1) simple elegance or refinement of movement, 2) courteous goodwill, and finally 3) {in Christian belief} the free and unmerited favor of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings. As we searched the word further, we found this definition to be more poignant: “Grace is a word about God: his un-coerced initiative, and pervasive, extravagant demonstrations of care and favor.”

We have experienced that extravagant care and favor, primarily from God, and also from so many of you. Most of it has been from brothers and sisters in Christ, but not all. Grace has been abundant and we have come to understand the Church (big C) better because of our experience.
We’ve been keeping many of these specific examples of care somewhat quiet because we feared it could come across as bragging or self-promoting but we’ve come to realize that sharing it could bless, encourage, and inspire others. We have been immensely encouraged and cared for because people shared their gifts, talents, and resources. We could never include an exhaustive list because, unfortunately, we didn’t always have the margin to take good notes while in the trenches of hospital life, but we want to share a few things that continue to be a blessing and point us to remember the kindness of God. If we were to list even half of the ways that God has provided through people’s generosity, it would be a post longer than anyone would actually read! 😅 So this TINY snapshot is just an effort to demonstrate the Lord’s goodness and to honor the collective selflessness and sacrificial generosity of so many people towards us over the past few years.

When we knew our time in Philadelphia was coming to a close, we reached out to a designer friend we knew to help with a big girl room for our older daughter, Emmet. When we left Birmingham Emmet was in the nursery and still in a crib. She had grown so much during our time in Philly, potty training and moving to a big girl bed, and we knew we would need the nursery for the twins. Emmet had been displaced as the baby in our family and now she was going to be displaced from her room. She was so young that she didn’t even remember home very much, so in many ways, was going to be going to yet another unfamiliar space. We wanted to create a new room that would be special for her.
I (Stephanie) had admired Katherine Melvin’s work for a while and we decided to see if she could help. We fully intended on paying her to put together a mood board of sorts and helping us source items to put in her room. We sent her pictures of the room and some inspiration pics of what we liked. However, while we were still in Philadelphia, she coordinated with some of our in-town family to come to our house and completely surprise and wow us with her creativity! Not only did she create a magical room for Emmet, but she added a few key items to the twins’ nursery to make it fresh and girly and coordinate with Emmet’s new room. And it worked out perfectly when several months ago Emmet requested to share a room with her sisters. The three girls now share the most precious wallpapered room that sparks both fun and calm. Katherine and her team wallpapered and sewed together the most precious of rooms.

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Last year about this time a friend from church texted and asked if we had a room in our house that needed “refreshing”, because there was someone who wanted to bless us by do a makeover on one room of our house. We immediately thought of our living room that had two stain-covered white chairs (that we purchased in our pre-children days when we were naive and full of hope😂) and a couch that had Elizabeth’s throw up cleaned off it too many times to count (remember how we mentioned in a previous post that we had emesis bags on Amazon subscribe and save?). It could certainly use a refresh!

We were instructed to be out of the house for the morning and let them know if we wanted to keep anything. We were nervous, to say the least. What was going to happen to our house?! Would we like what was chosen? Who were these mysterious generous people anyway?? It turned out the sweet ladies at The White House Interiors -new page and the owner, Ann Marie, transformed our living room into something straight from a magazine. We could not believe it! It surpassed any expectations we had by a mile. We still can’t believe it’s ours and not a day goes by that we aren’t reminded of God’s generosity through Ann Marie’s ministry, Operation Joy.

These two ladies used their time, talents, and resources to bless us in a way we would have never been able to do on our own. What a sweet picture of the body of Christ—using individual gifts to serve and love others. We are so thankful!

If you want to be inspired by their beautiful work you can check out their websites here:
Katherinebmelvin.com
Twhinteriors.com

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