On mothers day 1991 Charlie popped the question....
On October 3, 1992 I answered it.
Happy 16th Charlie!Thursday, October 2, 2008
Here we go!
This post has been a long time in the making.
We are going to adopt again! We got the call today to start the process.
It took a while to see how we were supposed to do this. We almost went with an agency. We had all of the paper work filled out and ready to mail. It kept sitting on the table and I would say - oh tomorrow I need to mail that! I just never mailed it in. Then we heard about a group that met at church once a month for adoption support. The second meeting we went to I invited my friend - she needed to hear what this lady from the state had to say. She was going to foster to adopt through the department of childrens services- but not me....I didn't need to hear any of it because I already had my paper work filled out. Then Charlie kept asking questions and I kept thinking - wow he really is inquisitive. Good for him. I sure hope "my friend" is listening to these questions - it's probably stuff she will need to know. But not me.
Then God started showing me what He wanted. He showed it through Charlie - again. Charlie heard what the lady from the state said and he listened - unlike me. He said it felt just like it did when we adopted Tyler. So the only thing I had left to do was pray. I didn't hear an answer right away and really thought we were supposed to go through this agency that I had chosen. I tried to make it so - but I realized that isn't the plan.
We are going to adopt through the department of children's services - again. The social worker that called said she remembered us and our case, even though she was not our social worker at the time. She said "you were blessed." Oh she really has no idea how blessed! I know it won't be as easy as it was the first time. From start to finish it was 7 months and in adoption world that is amazing. What I do know is that with God in control of it - I will be given the perfect child/children and our family will be complete.
We are going to adopt again! We got the call today to start the process.
It took a while to see how we were supposed to do this. We almost went with an agency. We had all of the paper work filled out and ready to mail. It kept sitting on the table and I would say - oh tomorrow I need to mail that! I just never mailed it in. Then we heard about a group that met at church once a month for adoption support. The second meeting we went to I invited my friend - she needed to hear what this lady from the state had to say. She was going to foster to adopt through the department of childrens services- but not me....I didn't need to hear any of it because I already had my paper work filled out. Then Charlie kept asking questions and I kept thinking - wow he really is inquisitive. Good for him. I sure hope "my friend" is listening to these questions - it's probably stuff she will need to know. But not me.
Then God started showing me what He wanted. He showed it through Charlie - again. Charlie heard what the lady from the state said and he listened - unlike me. He said it felt just like it did when we adopted Tyler. So the only thing I had left to do was pray. I didn't hear an answer right away and really thought we were supposed to go through this agency that I had chosen. I tried to make it so - but I realized that isn't the plan.
We are going to adopt through the department of children's services - again. The social worker that called said she remembered us and our case, even though she was not our social worker at the time. She said "you were blessed." Oh she really has no idea how blessed! I know it won't be as easy as it was the first time. From start to finish it was 7 months and in adoption world that is amazing. What I do know is that with God in control of it - I will be given the perfect child/children and our family will be complete.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Nararator
Tyler's weekly assignment of writing sentences usually involves me defining the word he needs to write about.
Last weeks words involved writing stories.
He asked me what narrator meant. I told him it was the person telling the story.
Easy enough. His sentence: The narrator tells a story.
Great - not rocket science but a complete sentence. Can't argue with that.
The next day was my day to pick him up from school. He hops in the car and the first thing out of his mouth is - Mommy, God's a narrator.
He definitely understood what a narrator is.
Last weeks words involved writing stories.
He asked me what narrator meant. I told him it was the person telling the story.
Easy enough. His sentence: The narrator tells a story.
Great - not rocket science but a complete sentence. Can't argue with that.
The next day was my day to pick him up from school. He hops in the car and the first thing out of his mouth is - Mommy, God's a narrator.
He definitely understood what a narrator is.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Look a little closer...
This morning as we left for Church I told Tyler - "grab your Bible".
It was sitting on the counter and I saw him grab it and go out to the car.
Or so I thought.
This is what he actually grabbed.
Although it looks just like a Bible - a Bible it is not. This is a gift I got in the mail yesterday from my Nana.
She made it.
It is a bar of soap, some gold ribbon to look like pages, a red ribbon to mark your spot and the outside is a mesh looking sort of foam to resemble leather.
It sure fooled Tyler!
He really thought we had bought a new Bible and he was bringing it to Church!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Baseball kinda day...
We had a game at 9am this morning. Our team doesn't do well with these 9am games. We actually played the worst game all season. We all came to the realization that this was going to be our first loss of the season after the 3rd inning when we were down 7 - 1.
Then it happened.
They woke up.
We WON!
18 - 16
This is Tyler attempting to catch a line drive hit right to him. It happened so fast that he literally had just enough time to put his glove up. It hit his glove so hard it popped right back out. His effort was intense though!
These two crack me up. They really are great for each other because they have real camaraderie between them. They are pumping each other up here because if we held them to 3 up 3 down we would only need to get 4 runs to tie. It was so funny to watch. I wish I had taped it because they were really serious.
Then Tyler and his buddy got a call. To play "up". The next level of baseball up. He was nervous because it is a kid pitch league and he has only hit off of coaches. It was intimidating but he held his own like always. He got up there 3 times and got on base once with a walk. Just knowing to wait for his pitch was great. I know I am not ready for him to be in this level of baseball yet. Good thing we have another year before we have to be!
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Homework
Tyler doesn't have a lot of homework. One thing he has to do is write 10 sentences with his weekly words. Pulling teeth I tell you - that would be more fun.
It took him one hour to write those 10 sentences tonight.
He would capitalize where he shouldn't, misspell words, write huge then small. When I would say "fix it" he would erase the entire sentence and start over. This happened for an hour. That was the longest hour of my entire life. It just wouldn't end!
I use to worry if he didn't have homework - right now I am just thankful.
It took him one hour to write those 10 sentences tonight.
He would capitalize where he shouldn't, misspell words, write huge then small. When I would say "fix it" he would erase the entire sentence and start over. This happened for an hour. That was the longest hour of my entire life. It just wouldn't end!
I use to worry if he didn't have homework - right now I am just thankful.
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