Ok, enough of this....I need to go and DO! Girls camp is almost here! :)
Friday, July 22, 2011
In My Next 30 years!
So, it's been a long time since I posted anything! This is serving as a reminder to me, to update this as soon as I get back from girls camp next week!!!! I can't believe the Summer is almost over. I don't want my kids to go back to school yet! I miss them already. Life is going to fast for me at the moment! I want to put it in slow motion so I can actually see half of what's going on with everyone in my family! I am getting ready to enter my 3 decade of life, so I've been doing some soul-searching/ contemplating on life. I am very happy with my family, where I live, and all that, but I want more out of life....not in a monetary way or what I have. I want to seize the moment and really do all I can, for my family, my church, my friends, and myself. The only problem is, I have always been good at noticing what I do wrong, or don't do enough of, but change is always the hurdle I get stuck on. I have the hardest time sticking with something. So to take a line from Tim McGraw..."In my next 30 years" I am going to learn how to not only see what I need to change in my life, but to find it in myself to stick with "it" (whatever that may be) and change!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
"Temporary Home"
Here is a video I put together with a song my sister, Jaime, shared with me several months ago. I love it and thought I'd share!
This life we are in is also just a temporary home until we meet our maker again. So let's pray that we all make the most of this experience here on Earth.
Monday, May 10, 2010
How can I arrange the pictures once I add them to my blog?
My pictures for my last post ended up being in reverse order because I started added the oldest ones first...I want it the other way around. Is there any way to rearrange them once I add pictures?
Mother's Day Miracles
Wesley took this one.
We had a really neat experience where they took us into a special room in the hospital to wait for the baby. When the closed the door and left Shawn and I in there alone to wait for the baby I got pretty emotional. I couldn't believe that this was actually happening. We started the process to get licensed to become foster parents in May 2009, we took 12 weekly 3 hour long classes, did background checks, got letters of recommendation and all sort of other stuff to get licensed. We finally finished that process in October 2009 and have been waiting for the perfect situation to come along. It did last Monday! When they wheeled that little baby into the room. I was amazed. I was excited. The first thing I saw was this head full of dark brown hair. There were security guards outside the room. The CPS worker, a hospital caseworker and a nurse in the room with us. They were all very kind to us. After about an hour of talking with the nurse, and signing some paperwork, they had Shawn pull our van up to the side entrance, to avoid any conflict with the parents and then I walked out followed by the guards, and nurse. The nurse kept telling us how grateful she was he got to come to our home and gave me a hug before we left. Let me tell you walking into the hospital not pregnant, and then walking back out 1 hour later with a brand new sweet little baby is quite an experience.
My kids were very excited when they got home from the park. Wesley kept asking if we got to keep him or not. That is the difficult part. We don't know. In the past week that sweet little baby has stolen my heart and it feels like he is mine. I love him and I am nervous and anxious to see what the first hearing that we have this afternoon will bring. We could have him for a very short time or it could go to adoption, which is what I am hoping for. It just feels so right having him as a part of our family, but Heavenly Father knows what is in our hearts and what is in this little sweethearts best interest. So if we keep him a few months or forever I am going to love him as long as I have him and give him what he deserves, a family who will love him, and nurture him like all babies should get. I just hope we can make a difference in his life like he has already made in ours. He is definitely a blessing and a wonderful Mother's Day gift.
When I was talking about the situation with my brother-in-law he brought up the quote
'Tis better to have loved and lost
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