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<\/p>\nToday after our family Bible study and prayer time it was decided to spontaneously celebrate our daughter’s birthday, which is actually next weekend, but due to a music engagement we have way upstate, we will not be able to celebrate it on the actual day.<\/p>\n
I suddenly found myself in full-speed mode as I set off to bake her cake.<\/p>\n
(I have always decorated my children’s cakes for every birthday for each one since their first. This tradition I want to keep for as long as I can so they will always have happy birthday memories and the anticipation of “what theme this year, Mom??”)<\/p>\n
I got to work making the homemade icing and began dying it the autumn colors for the scene I planned to do. An hour later and Viola! It was done! (And so were my hands, my shoulders, my feet…)<\/p>\n
My daughter was quite pleased and knows how hard I struggle to decorate cakes now that I have been struck with Fibromyalgia. She also knows that asking me NOT to decorate the cake would be a useless conversation to have with me.<\/p>\n
The dinner and cake were a hit! Currently I can hear waves and waves of raucous laughter from the living room as many of our older kiddos are still up and playing a board game. This Momma is exhausted but hearing the laughter is medicine to my soul!<\/p>\n
Yes, I write this in pain. My shoulders are locking up and my fingers can scarcely type the keyboard.<\/p>\n
Yes, my feet are throbbing 45 minutes after I have been resting.<\/p>\n
Yes, every joint feels unhinged and the pains unleashed.<\/p>\n
But you know what?<\/p>\n
It was worth it to see the smile on my daughter’s face and the joy it brings me on the inside see it!<\/p>\n
Does the pain make me want to curl up in a ball and wish it away? Yes.<\/p>\n
But I know that even if I stop, the pain will still be there.<\/p>\n
Decorating cakes hurts me but being creative helps me. It’s a baffling paradox, but being creative helps me through the pain.<\/p>\n
Sounds strange, I know, but it works for me.<\/p>\n
So Happy Birthday to my sweet daughter! I am glad you liked your cake!!<\/p>\n
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God Bless-<\/p>\n
~The Fibro Momma of Ten<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"