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"The Truth About Adoption"

See our photos...

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After you click HERE...click on BLOG and scroll down to "Adoption Sunday" ...our family pics are after "Ben's". If you have adopted or you are grown and are adopted please consider being a part of this project. Your family will be photographed and used in a coffee table book that will be released in 2009. If you are interested let me know and i will get Mandy's info to you. If you have adopted...please take part! We had a great experience. All of the families are diverse...the one thing that links them is adoption. Thanks to Jen at Sugar Photography, and Mandy, the masterminds of the project!!! We had a great time and we are building such a great friendship with their families.

The best day of my life...

I have been trying lately to keep my mind focused. I noticed a couple of weeks ago, that I was having a very difficult time concentrating, due to what I have been feeling. It is, honestly, the first time in my life that I have empathized with someone who struggles with A.D.D...however, I know that my distractions will cease once my medicine is straitened out.

I got up this morning feeling good. The Prednisone has been a great relief and help for the here and now. We got Abby and Lucy Grace dressed, fed, prayed for, loved on & out the door and then I started on Zoe. She left at 9 to go to M.D.O. .

Ellie and I stood looking at each other over a cup of half-empty, cold coffee.

All of the sudden, I wasn't feeling so good. I was exhausted. My feet felt like they would explode. My heart was racing from the medicine and my fingers were screaming.

"Mommy, can we go to Starbucks to do school?" School?...I forgot that I still have a Kindergartner that will test on the 12th of May for her big "entrance" into 1st grade.

Sight words, numbers, time, Go, Dog Go!

"Sure...get your bag."

By the time we got there...it's so bad, that it is almost comical...I could've laid in the entry way and slept while customers stepped over me. Thank God, and I mean that, for caffeine.

We sat across from each other, in the far left corner "booth" by the windows. It was a little cool and the sun was just beginning to shine on us. The good kind of shinning..like early summer - it warms you just enough to remind you of a good memory that you can't believe you've forgotten.

We did math & sight words...and took a break. During "break" the most amazing thing happened. The greatest moment took place. I was watching Ellie draw a ladybug.

"Mommy, will you color her with me?"

"Definitely."

Then it happened...

Dido came over the speaker. That's right, Dido.

I was soaking it up...I was reminded...of how BIG life is...and how good it is...And how much I love her...and how I could've stayed right there forever.

"...and all I see is you
And even if my house falls down,
I wouldn't have a clue
Because you're near me and

I want to thank you
for giving me the best day of my life
Oh just to be with you
is having the best day of my life."

At the bottom of the picture she wrote , "The Best Day".

The Altar of Prosperity

"The greatest obstacle to multi-generational faithfulness is prosperity."
-Dr. Voddie Baucham

from www.gracefamilybaptist.net (podcast - "Getting Your House in Order" 12/26/07)

Chapter 3 - Escape

"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell- as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world."
-Charlotte's Web