Hello everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Another year has come and gone for the Lee family filled with lots of excitement, stress, and thankfulness. As many of you know, a large part of the year has been spent addressing Connor’s medical issues. The year began with appointments at the neurologist with concerns of low tone. Connor got an MRI of his brain showing a Chiari 1 malformation and extra spinal fluid accumulating in his brain. Connor also endured several blood tests, nerve conduction studies and numerous doctors’ appointments. After much prayer and several opinions from different neurosurgeons, we have decided to get Connor’s Chiari 1 malformation surgically corrected on December 14, 2015. We ask for your love and prayer for a successful surgery and uneventful recovery for our dear son Connor.
Despite the hectic schedule of these medical issues, Connor successfully completed pre-school and is now in kindergarten at Great Heart’s Academy in Mrs. Garretson’s classroom! Our son has quickly made several new friends and he is absolutely adored by his classmates and teachers. The level at which Connor is learning new words and starting to read is absolutely mind-blowing, and we give all thanks to God for his academic success thus far.
Who can forget Noah, our soon to be 3-year-old son, who is adorably terrorizing us and his brother with his unforgettable laughs and constant activity. Thankfully, Noah has been relatively healthy physically and is quickly growing to be such an independent little boy! Hearing him pray at dinner and bedtime is so heart-moving knowing that God is truly working in our son’s life. Connor and Noah have really grown to love playing with each other building magnet castles, playing matching card games, and even dueling with light sabers. Whenever Connor starts to role play as his favorite character, Noah’s favorite phrase is, “Who I be?, who I be Nonner?”
My beautiful wife Renae successfully completed her spring and summer semesters of schoolwork in working to complete her degree in early childhood education. Renae has tirelessly been juggling schoolwork, raising our boys, and juggling all the different appointments for Connor. She even finds time to occasionally get her hair and nails done. I am so proud seeing my wife accomplish so much in such a short period of time. Seeing her spiritual growth and her role in our home church, True North Church, in managing the preschool ministry is also very inspiring. Renae truly loves God and looks to Him for strength in her times of need.
I am thankful for God’s many blessing on me this year. I have been at my new clinic for a year and a half and am still loving my work environment. I ask for God’s daily guidance to lead my family closer to a one-to-one relationship with Jesus. I pray that the new year of 2016 may be filled with more opportunities to reveal God’s grace and his mighty works.
Abe, Renae, Connor, and Noah
Philippians 4:13: I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
