Thursday Morning, December 20th

Well it's great to be back.

So much has happened in the last 3 months that it would be impossible for me to catch up in one quick session so I will try to summarize how blessed we have been.

Allie is doing remarkable well and is enjoying life with a new understanding and outlook. She is a softer, kinder, more compassionate and loving teenager. She has been blessed with a second chance in life and she realizes it and is grateful ( a grateful teenage?) Every moment is a blessing and joy. We have our moments but if you spent most of every day with me for the past three months you would understand.

Allie will be going to college in three weeks and will be moving out of the house and into a dorm and while I have had my concerns I am finally at peace with the fact that she will be OK. We have a large group of people who will help, her best friend is only one floor up in the dorm and her mom and I are only an hour away. Sure I still have some trepidation but I must let go because God has a plan for her and I can not interfere with it.

Allie is singing again and doing so well. She now sings four times a week and is singing in a church choir. At the Christmas service the other night we all felt the presence of the creator as she walked the processional. As she went by my knees buckled and I actually had to catch myself from falling. There I was, this great big guy with tears running down my eyes - what a sight - but I knew the full story and the Christmas miracle I had just witnessed.

Allie is having her hair done today for the first time since the accident. Tomorrow it is off to NY to see family, also for the first time since the accident and we are all thrilled.

So much more but have to go to work now. Please continue to pray for Allie and for all of our other friends on caringbridge.com. Paige Cook, Rachel Juliano and Jessie Garren.

We love all of you and are so grateful. Where do we go from her? I don;t know. I guess she will lead and we will follow.

Full Recovery - Never a Doubt
Allie's Dad